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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult

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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult	comment	Teenage Wastelands: The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult is a YA Horror/Fantasy novel by Kent J. Starrett, and the sequel to his first novel, Jackie and Craig.The story features the surviving characters from the first book, who have been relocated by the S.S.C. to Rhode Island, where they each try to make their own way in the world after the destruction of their hometown, Shadow Creek, by the same organization trying to suppress paranormal phenomena.Will, now working for the S.S.C. as his grandfather once did, discovers a series of child disappearances across America. Some simply vanish from their houses, cars and roadsides; others run away, leaving cryptic messages about a paradisical valley somewhere in the deep south. Amy works at a pet store, still trying to adapt to the normal world as an autistic person, and Craig is deep into PTSD trauma with near-constant nightmares and visions of a shapeshifting, cloaked figure named Indrid Cold.It all comes to a head when Craig meets Haley Larson, a girl with a beautiful singing voice, a similarly tragic past, and a few stories passed down from her grandparents about Sky Valley. Will thinks there's something to it, and the newly-formed quartet decides to set out to find Sky Valley; and any of the missing children who might be found there.What they find is a commune built from a Ghost Town where nobody is above the age of twenty-one, and a permanent fog cloaks the valley from the outside world. Some of the youths have unnatural powers and can control the weather or the elements, while others can read minds and hear thoughts, often with disastrous consequences. Most, however, are refugees, fleeing street life, abusive parents or child exploitation rings. Many have children of their own, and some of the town's warrior caste go on raids and steal various drugs and supplies from other, poverty-stricken rural towns. Craig, Will, Amy and Haley are now all trapped here, under the power of Sky Valley's mysterious leader, a former child-preacher named Tal Raquin.Known for being strikingly distinct and Darker and Edgier than its predecessor, which was essentially Bridge to Terabithia with acid-trip monsters, as well as heavier emotional stakes and more thoroughly developed characters. Teenage Wastelands has since become the overarching title of the saga. A sequel followed in 2024, called Escape From Concordia.
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Craig, after killing another human being for the first time. Indrid Cold terrorizes him over it.
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Sky Valley must have been influenced by Jonestown, and the sequence in which expendable civilians are burned alive inside a decrepit building is an actual war crime that Nazis committed, and has more than a little bit of Gas Chamber overtones.
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_17640aa8	comment	The Anti-Nihilist: Craig tries to be this, against all odds. He doesn't succeed, but he tries.
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The first book is told from Craig's perspective exclusively, and is a dark horror-comedy about monsters on the loose. All-in-All, it feels like an exceptionally dark 90's kid's movie. Sky Valley is a much darker, gritty mystery novel told from multiple points of view that features children and teenagers committing unspeakable violent acts to each other and dying horribly. The first book dealt with simple themes like friendship and bravery, while the sequel deals with heavy themes of tribalism, religious fanaticism and the weaponization of love and dependency. Talk about going downhill.
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The first novel is called Jackie and Craig, while in this one Jackie is barely mentioned and is seen only in a flashback near the end of the book.
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: Lightly, where it concerns Will's parts of the story. Near the end, Amy joins in, making it a case of both Ammonia/Absinthe Spy Fiction and Agents Dating stories.
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The same as the rest of the franchise: "They're just flesh and blood." Also "I think I love you," for Craig and Haley's romance.
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