The best part of this book isn't anything about the "True Crime" aspect (a chunk of Sottile's inspiration for writing this book was prompted by the horrific child murders by Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell) but the deep dive into high control groups at the fringes of rightwing, conservative Mormon culture which fuels righteous and murderous apocalyptism and horrific religious, sexual, and other kinds of exploitation, not to mention Christian white supremacy.

I think after the rise of the "alt-right" and Trump in 2016, there was a big emphasis on how new this "divided cultural and political moment" felt, but as Sotille untangles, there have been fringe and powerful groups agitating for Christian white patriarchal supremacy since the beginning of the United States.

Anyways, this book is sometimes disturbing, but as someone who grew up knowing almost nothing about Mormons until I met LDS missionaries in Zambia in 2008, this is a very, at times intensely, interesting read.

(Note to self, return to "Revelations.")