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Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult by Faith Jones

6 reviews

bitesizedbeet's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Death, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder

byashleylamar's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Minor: Abortion, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Alcohol, Sexual violence, Drug use, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Addiction, Incest, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual harassment

playswithstring's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This book was tough. It’s hundreds of pages of abuse. I knew what the Children of God cult was about after reading Uncultured (Daniella Mestyanek) last year, but Faith Jones goes so much more into detail about the abuse she suffered. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Deportation, Eating disorder, Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Body shaming, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Physical abuse

sara_m_martins's review

This book is far too graphic in the abuse described. 
Plus, the writing style and the form feel weird and dissonant, as the sequence of events goes from pages of different but relatively-mundane life (like building a wall) to extremely abusive and traumatic scenarios. 
Additionally, I think I would rather read a more removed perspective - i.e. a biography instead of an autobiography

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Self harm, Sexual content, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Incest, Animal death, Child abuse, Misogyny, Mental illness, Rape, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, and Drug use

alicefaye_'s review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Incest, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, and Suicide

rotatinglibrary's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Colonisation, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Incest, Fatphobia, Excrement, and Eating disorder