I will never recover from American Rapture. This book will do everything: make you cry, make you scream, make you shiver, and make you think about your life in a way you’ve never done before. Sophie, a teenage girl raised in a stifling and strict Catholic town, goes on a journey across the Midwest, searching for her twin brother across a landscape of violence and pestilence. Along the way, she builds a found family of other wandering survivors, and she discovers new perspectives on faith, desire, shame, queerness, authority, and righteousness. CJ Leede will tear your heart out with this high-octane horror/thriller.
American Rapture by CJ Leede, (List Price: $27.99, Tor Nightfire, 9781250857927, October 2024)
Reviewed by Catherine Pabalate, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina