I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review 
 This book ...was just a mess. I don't even know where to start. 
 What I was hoping to get: a cool DaVinci Code esque religious mystery/thriller 
 What I actually got: some horrible rape-and-revenge style crap ala 70s exploitation films plus a weird dose of environmentalism mixed with a bit of religious stuff at the very end 
 Literally the most interesting part of this book is the first few chapters where we meet the nun Denise and she is running from these monks in red robes and then hangs herself to get away from them. Then literally the entire rest of the book is her daughter reading her journal that she finds so the ENTIRE book is just info dump after info dump. At one point the daughter [Siobhan] is literally reading her mother's journal and it's talking about this other guy reading some OTHER books like ...there are just so many layers of info dump I can't handle it. 
 And please please P L E A S E heed the rape warning on this. I would say somewhere between a third and half of the book is Denise recounting how she got raped and almost murdered for a lottery ticket [are you serious?? the whole thing is so convoluted] and then how she got ~revenge~ on the people who did it to her. And then her getting raped again. And there was just no reason for it. I mean she had already figured out who the attackers were before they raped her so it wasn't for that reason, and I think being robbed and left for dead and ending up w/ a severe spinal cord injury is honestly enough to fuel a revenge rampage. And there was literally no plot relevant reason for the second rape either. I'm trying not to be too upset about this because I guess I WAS warned, but I'll always side-eye male authors who add the rape of female characters into their stories like this because I'm always just wondering why they do it and the whole thing just makes me feel so gross and angry. 
 After that HUGE detour there's some weird bit about how humans are destroying the earth and that is somehow tied into the anti-christ and ??? Listen 'humans are messing up the environment' is not even a statement I disagree with, I just fail to see how it fit into this story at all. I fail to see how any part of this story fits in with any other part. Then there finally was some of the religious mystery-thriller aspect at the very end but honestly I was just so over everything by that point that my eyes were glazing over trying to read it so it still didn't do much for me. 
 Oh yeah, and apparently this is a PART ONE of a series even though it's not marked that way, because there is literally NO plot resolution in this at all. It's an entire novel of diary-exposition info-dump and nothing actually happens. Amazing.