What a wonderful story of young people breaking free from religious-based hegemonic oppression. It is also heartbreaking seeing almost all of the characters suffering under it, even the believers as they get more and more entangled. It’s definitely YA romance with many of the accompanying tropes, but seeing them in this setting brings joy and liberation to a world that could have gone very dark and devastating. Sometimes you need an HEA to help you process the horrors intimated in the narrative.