WHERE YOU BELONG by S J King

 4* Yikes, reminds me a bit of the old 70s series Logan's Run.

This is really well-written and quite freaky that so many people could allow themselves to be manipulated. And that in this day and age, they wouldn't check things out and have MAJOR warning bells ringing that there's basically nothing online about the... thing they're about to join. Seriously, that's where the tale lost 1* for me, but it was still decent enough that I could overlook this.

I did like Julia, but how her instincts, especially with her training and profession, let her down so badly, was hard to fathom. Admittedly things got clearer and even more freaky, especially with the lemongrass scents and the fringes - trying not to Spoiler here - but it still bugged me that she was so passive for so long. I'm also a bit bugged not to know what happened to Lin, though I did think for a while that she might be a victim, too, and half decent, but right at the end, I wasn't sure. Another thing that irked me is that she could email, had internet access, could call her mother (at least) but didn't think it strange there was no TV, no news, no outside world intruding...

Her hubby was a wanker. Full stop. It was all about him and about lying and manipulating her, even to the point of allowing their kid to be victimised as a means to an end. That guy deserved to get stuck in a bog and slowly suffocate.

It ended believably, and I hoped that for her and her kids, life was as we know it, without that fringe thing being able to harm her/them. But, it wasn't talked about, so maybe not.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Storm Publishing, for my reading pleasure. 

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