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190 reviews for:
Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage
Meri Brown, Kody Brown, Janelle Brown
2.98 AVERAGE
190 reviews for:
Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage
Meri Brown, Kody Brown, Janelle Brown
2.98 AVERAGE
informative
It’s very interesting to read the book now after seeing so many seasons of the show, knowing that the older kids are speaking out about the parents and how they were raised, knowing that Christine and Meri have left Kody, and knowing that Kody and Janelle have separated.
informative
slow-paced
informative
slow-paced
I have watched all fifteen seasons of the Sister Wives show on TLC. I love the relationships that all of the children have with each other, and it has been great getting to see them grow into their own people. I really like Janelle and Christine as well. I was given this as a gift for Mother's Day, because I was watching the series and am always interested in other religions. I have to admit that I skimmed over anything that Kody had to say, but I was very interested in what Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn had to say. I cannot stand that husband, and I have no idea how they can endure his incessant loud mouth. I hoped that this book would be more interesting than it was, but there was a lot that happened within the family since the book was written. I wish they would come out with a part two.
reflective
fast-paced
informative
slow-paced
medium-paced
The first 1/3 of the book is TEA but then it gets hella boring if you've watched the show
I definitely read this book mostly out of weird curiousity. I've seen a few episodes of the show and was curious to know how the family feels about their portrayal. This was a fast read and held my interest throughout, but there's not really anything meaningful to take away. It's a good bit of guilty gossip literature with a bit more authenticity and heart than the average.
informative
slow-paced
🚩🚩🚩 Honestly, what a dumpster fire.
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
First review of 2023!
I watch their show on TLC, but only recently knew (or maybe remembered) they had written a book. I’m glad I only recently remembered because reading this book with so much foresight was really interesting to say the least. This came out in 2012, an entire decade ago, which is weird to think how long I’ve been watching them on tv and how much has come to light, or changed. I don’t think it’s necessary to have watched the show to read this book, but I do think it’s important for providing context and additional insight.
Kody is a polygamist with 4 wives, or at least he did when the wrote the book. He’s down to one wife currently and it was really telling reading this book and seeing the cracks in their relationships that were honestly there from the start. Due to Kody’s clear, but unsurprising heavy handed influence in the book, including the wives parts I think this is more a loose interpretation of what happened. I also don’t understand how this includes the perspective of their kids growing up (like it said in the synopsis) when the kids had no hand in the book, and a lot of the kids were still pretty young.
With all this being said this was a really enlightening book, but I don’t think in the way they intended. It gave insight into their lives as they perceive them, and I would be really interested in hearing their perspectives now in this longer, straight from the source book style. Especially from Christine, and Janelle, two of the wives that left, and especially the children who are mostly adults now. That’s a perspective we really haven’t heard a lot from unfiltered and I think it would be really important toward understanding the full and complete story.
I think he succeeds in his mission so far as showing us, at least in their family dynamic, polygamy wasn’t the issue. As far as redeeming polygamy as a whole, or lifting the veil on their religion I don’t know how much it succeeds because anytime they talked about their beliefs they were pretty vague and unspecific, tossing out a couple terms here and there to make it sound official as they tend to do on the show. Had I not been watching the show this whole time and just picked up the book there would honestly be huge holes of missing information that I might not have even known were missing. I wasn’t expecting a full break down of their ideology in 270 pages because this really was more about the family rather then their belief system, but I was hoping for more information where those two things intersect. Their family dynamic wouldn’t exist, after all, without their ideology. They kind of just said “It’s not what you think, just trust us” without examples, or elaboration on how it’s different than the stereotypes in people’s heads. I think they kind of hide behind making the show, their book, or any media they participate in about their specific family to avoid having to answer questions about the more problematic aspects of their belief system.
This was just an interesting read for me. I like reading about this kind of stuff, and going back in time in a way and reading their documentation of their life at that point was really telling about where they’re at now. I would recommend this to fans of the show, or people who are interested in families who aren’t the “norm” but for anyone looking to understand polygamy, FLDS, or anything like that I don’t know how helpful this would be.