Review: Our Last Resort - Clemence Michallon - July 2025 I'll be honest with you when I picked up Our Last Resort almost entirely because the blurb whispered Waco and Jonestown to me. A cult in upstate New York. A dramatic escape. Siblings carrying the weight of something unspeakable. I was practically already in my reading chair before I'd finished the synopsis. Sometimes a premise is just that good.  The flashback sequences to Frida and Gabriel's cloistered upbringing have that eerie, suffocating quality that makes cult narratives so compulsively readable , the kind of world where the walls feel like they're slowly closing in even when everything looks perfectly ordered from the outside. That tension is real, and it's the engine that kept me turning pages. The present-day setup has promise too. The Ara Hotel  a luxury desert retreat in Escalante, Utah is a gorgeous setting, all heat-shimmer and isolation. A dead woman. A powerful older husband. A brother with a ...