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“The Unity Project saved my life.” Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo’s sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there’s more to the group than meets the eye. She’s spent the last six years of her life trying–and failing–to prove it. “The Unity Project murdered my son.” When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportunity to expose the group and reunite with Bea once and for all. When her investigation puts her in the direct path of its charismatic and mysterious leader, Lev Warren, he proposes a deal: if she can prove the worst of her suspicions about The Unity Project, she may expose them. If she can’t, she must finally leave them alone. But as Lo delves deeper into The Project, the lives of its members, and spends more time with Lev, it upends everything she thought she knew about her sister, herself, cults, and the world around her–to the point she can no longer tell what’s real or true. Lo never thought she could afford to believe in Lev Warren . . . but now she doesn’t know if she can afford not to. Welcome to The Unity Project.
This was my first ever Courtney Summers book. I’ve seen so much talk about her online, about how her books destroy you in the best way possible. While I like being destroyed sometimes, I have to be in the right mindset to read books like that. I had a hard time getting through the little bit I read of Sadie because of how heavy it was. I was so fascinated by the premise of this book, a cult and sisters, but I was wary of how heavy it might me. Nevertheless, I decided to charge ahead and see what this book would hold. Trigger warnings: cults, abuse
