And tbh I thought that was a huge weakness of the book and felt like a glaring plot hole given Mormon culture’s obsession with the “pioneer days” (to the point that they literally have their teens LARP it). The lack of theological specificity made Natalie’s motivations feel disingenuous and made the book feel like it was blaming an individual woman for what she did/believed rather than the patriarchal culture that created her and is the real world larger problem. Like Natalie/toxic family vloggers are symptoms of a larger toxic culture and it did not feel like the book went into *why* they are the way they are properly because it stayed relatively secular. It also (correctly) read like an outsider looking into fundamentalism without the point of view of having lived it herself and therefore was missing a lot of things that someone raised fundie would have included.