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Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult by Rachel Jeffs
5 reviews
chloesbooked's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Infertility, Sexual assault, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual violence
lignjahal's review against another edition
4.5
I find this autobiography to be a stunningly honest reflection on surviving abuse, a cult, and the trauma that comes with it. The audiobook is greatly benefitted by having the author read the book. There is no hiding away from Warren Jeff’s’ actions and the impacts he had with Rachel Blackmore’s words and tones. Her prayer for her family at the end of the book hits hard, but I hope it continues to reach her family until the FLDS is gone forever.
Graphic: Incest, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Violence, Cancer, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Blood, Body shaming, Cancer, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Stalking
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
punkhunk's review against another edition
5.0
I was floored by this book. Jeffs wastes no time in throwing the reader right in- from the prologue she gives the reader a warning of what is to come- her abusive relationship (sexually, emotionally, and spiritually) with her father within the FLDS cult. Once i was about a third of the way in, I had trouble keeping the book down and ended up staying up late just to find out what would happen next.
Jeffs ends up with quite a happy ending despite this being an overall dark memoir. Much of the book is filled with her trials and tribulations as she navigates life in the FLDS church, but she maintains strength and dignity throughout. I highly recommend this book to those who appreciates dark memoirs- my friend recomended it to me for those reasons and she hit the nail on the head.
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, and Miscarriage
Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Infertility, and Medical content
much of part one contains Jeffs' major graphic experiences of child sexual abuse and incest. it is not graphic later in the book, but is mentioned throughout the text. this is mostly obvious, but the whole book is about Jeffs' experience in the FLDS cult, which was not a choice of content warning. there are a few points at which her children are hurt badly and cannot go to the hospital due to FLDS rules, im not sure whether to mark that as "medical abuse" (which i thought was doctors/medial professionals abusing their power over patients).lelyreads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Pedophilia, Misogyny, Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Death of parent, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness
Minor: Car accident, Cursing, Cancer, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts
crownofsage's review against another edition
2.75
In addition, the first ~80 pages of the book contains fairly graphic CSA content about the author and her father. It’s an important part of the story for sure, but I felt like this section (many chapters) was uncomfortably long, and not particularly well written either.
Overall, I drudged through trying to get to the end to see her talk about what life was like after escaping. I was very disappointed to see that the book ends only a couple short pages after her escape and doesn’t get into her recovery or growth from that point forward at all.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Death of parent
Moderate: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Rape, Miscarriage, and Medical content