Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

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

3 reviews

metalmakubex's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

So right off the bat, I do want to mention to please look into trigger warnings for this book if you are interested in reading it. This is a heavy topic told from a very insider perspective, and does not pull punches.
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To say I “enjoyed” this memoir is not the correct word for it. However, it was very informative, and Faith was an interesting narrator. We follow her cult indoctrination from a very young age, and the way she tells the story in a present tense was an intriguing and haunting choice. While I’ve seen some people put off by that, but for me, it made her story all the more immersive. It may have made a difference for me since I listened to it in audiobook. Her writing style is very blunt and simple. She would mention her abuse as if she was describing what she ate for breakfast. It well portrayed the mindset she was in at the time, her belief that her experience was the “true” path and to be expected. It set alarm bells off in my head and made me wish I could rescue young Faith myself.⁠
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I also liked how she chose to write her parents’ experiences in the novel as well. In particular, her mother’s struggle with following their beliefs, and how Faith had to become a parental figure for her siblings because of it, was heartbreaking. Her parents were not perfect people, but Faith was able to write them with humanity and understanding, despite their mistakes and misgivings.⁠
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I would recommend this to anyone interested in personal accounts from ex-cult members, or if you’ve ever wondered “how does one even get wrapped up in a cult the first place?” Be wary of reading it if you are sensitive to certain material. Viewer discretion is advised.⁠

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

mondovertigo's review

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Gaslighting, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Bullying, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Abortion, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Blood, and Body shaming

thelassinlinen's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Xenophobia