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Honey is strong-willed and hates the Believers' leader Emmanuel. Agnes is soft-spoken and ever since her twelfth b-day, she strives to be saintly like the leader. Both are young girls living on Mount Blessing who have been best friends since the beginning. Honey wants to leave, but Agnes cannot see any reason to until Nana Pete comes for a visit and discovers the Regulation Room. Nana Pete knows that those two cannot stay, but Agnes parents are stubborn in keeping to the cult. Eventually, Honey and Nana Pete get Agnes and her brother to leave, but another tragedie strikes, putting their newly aquired freedom in jeapardy. The book's layout is easy to follow and the characters are well developed because the chapters point of views alternate between Honey and Agnes. Even so, I didn't really like any of the characters except for Nana Pete. Honey can be a brat and Agnes is impossible at times, but the story was still a good one.