Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

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

13 reviews

linddykal's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

crownofsage's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

2.75

I fell bad giving a memoir such a low  rating, but the rating is of the book and quality of writing, NOT of her life story. The story itself was compelling and consistently horrifying. However, the style of writing was very dry and boring to me. Sometimes the monotony seemed to play into the content of the book (endless days where fun, affection, games, etc were banned and life was endless chores and loneliness). But most of the book was a struggle to get through. 

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. 

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Content Warnings

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

baileyjanetee's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Miscarriage