Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult by Rachel Jeffs

43 reviews

herphoenixloves's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, and Domestic abuse

angeee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

Moderate: Pregnancy, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

Minor: Miscarriage

mirandahems's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

i liked hearing the story from first person perspective 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Sexism, Pregnancy, Cancer, and Death of parent

pandorah's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

bunnybree222's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

I loved this book. I started watching TLC’s Sister Wives and wanted another perspective on polygamy. This was a challenging read, but Rachel’s story is one of triumph. Since I mainly rate books on the overall feelings I had while reading, this story was quite interesting in my eyes. The only qualm I found was the book’s ending felt extremely rushed. I was excited to learn more about Rachel’s current life, but she barely addressed her life after leaving polygamy. I found the book's ending a little lackluster compared to the fast-paced beginning and middle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Child abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Bullying

rose_poirot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Harrowing, heartbreaking, and tragic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Trafficking, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Sexism

pernillelsk's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cancer, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Minor: Police brutality

madisonkeough's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

reynoldsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

3.0

Rachel Jeffs tells her story of growing up in a polygamist cult as the daughter of the man who would eventually take over leadership of the FLDS and end up on the FBI’s most wanted list. She describes in detail the ways he sexually abused her starting when she was 8 years old, and how, later on, he began doing the same things to his underage wives. 

When Rachel was 18, she became the third wife of a kind young man, but she was still under her father’s influence. She spent many of the following years separated from her children and/or husband as Jeffs sought to keep control of her so she wouldn’t reveal the secret of what he had done to her.

Gradually, Rachel’s disillusionment with the church and its leadership grew until she finally took the leap to get out and take her kids with her, leaving behind everything she had ever known for the hope that the unknown would be better.

It’s a hard-hitting memoir that fearlessly draws back the curtain on life as a woman in the FLDS and what kind of man Warren Jeffs really is.

Not for the faint of heart, but the worst of it is mostly packed into the beginning chapters and tapers off as Rachel gets older. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

The beginning of the book spends a lot of time describing the sexual acts done by a father to his daughter, 8 years old and up.

It never crosses the line of actual rape, but it comes close. There are brief mentions later on of the same things happening to a 6-year-old.

There are many mentions of underage marriages.

There is also a section that describes (not in great detail, but enough to be disturbing) an orgy involving multiple underage girls.

chloesbooked's review against another edition

5.0

This woman could be one of the bravest women to share her story for the world. Rachel Jeffs, one of the many daughters of Warren Jeffs, shares her story of surviving and leaving the manipulative church known as the FLDS. She was abused as a child, then forced into a marriage. She then endured more pain at the hands of her father, the leader of the FLDS church, even after his arrest. Her bravery and resilience was inspiring to say the least!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Infertility, Sexual assault, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual violence