{"id":4105,"date":"2018-09-07T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2020-02-21T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:04:47","slug":"the-incendiaries-r-o-kwon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/the-incendiaries-r-o-kwon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon – Visceral and Mysterious (Blog Tour)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Incendiaries<\/em> bagged a place in almost every list of anticipated releases of the year by bigger digital publications.\u00a0 News about the book was everywhere. I was keen to read this debut that had a dizzying cover design and an attractive blurb and thrilled to be a part of the tour for the release of the book.<\/p>\n Will Kendall and Phoebe Lin meet at Edwards college. Will has given up his faith in Christianity while Phoebe is drawn to a secret extremist religious cult called Jejah, founded by a former student, John Leal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Religion and devotion towards faith is an important theme in the novel. While Will has lost his faith in God which makes him shift from Bible college to Edwards college, Phoebe finds comfort in the religious beliefs she is exposed to. While there is no right or wrong, it is interesting to compare their individual reasons for their choices as well as the consequences that befall them. Will struggles to understand how the girl he loves is drawn to the religious cult while he himself had run away from his Christian upbringing. Also in retrospection, Will realizes he does not really feel liberated, as he hoped, after abandoning his faith. John Neal, the man behind the cult, does not get enough of a mention in the novel but does give a peek into the psychology behind religious fanatic ideas.<\/p>\nIn brief<\/h3>\n
Faith and fundamentalism<\/h3>\n