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growintogardens's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.25

I've read a lot about cults and personal memoirs from people in cults, but this one didn't really help me understand the cult itself. The descriptions of sexual abuse are so graphic, it's very difficult to get through.

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pinksy's review against another edition

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dark inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

Shocking
Heartbreaking
Fascinating
Harrowing
Honest

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pamelaaaa's review

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dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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hookerkitty's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

2.0

It’s so sad how one charismatic asshole can destroy so many people’s lives.

This had potential, but missed the mark. While the first chapter about the history could’ve been interesting, it ended up being so incredibly dry that I almost gave up then.

After that there was SO MUCH unnecessarily graphic depictions of child physical and sexual abuse, and sexual abuse of adults. She didn’t need to go into so much detail; it was wildly uncomfortable and difficult to get through. It doesn't help that she wrote everything in the present tense. She wrote somewhat childlike for instances that happened when she was younger, but also used words that no 3 or 4 year old would use (or hell, most of the people there since they were only allowed a sixth grade education — side note: them having at least one spelling error in the titles of their educational material cracked me up).

I also find it hard to believe she remembered all that stuff in such detail from when she was that young. There were other instances throughout the book that also seemed like they skirted the lines of truth. (I’m not at all accusing her of fabricating her story, just that some instances here and there seem a little embellished).

There was more than one instance where she used a word without telling the reader what it meant. It was annoying to have to Google stuff to understand what she was talking about. I didn’t realize until I had finished the book that there was a glossary at the end. While that’s nice to have, a short definition when the word is introduced would’ve been much more appreciated.

It started to get better (or less uncomfortable) halfway through the book, but then dear god (hah) did her superiority complex come out. Lots of cringey thoughts and behaviors. The end had some stuff in it that I found useful, or at least could be a building block for some of my trauma processing.

I decided to look at her website (prompted by another review) and it seems that she has turned into the people she says she escaped from. Tons of red flags of courses that’ll fix your life with no mention of price, only an email, and she even went on Dr. Oz. Yikes on trikes all around.

I’m definitely disappointed with this book. I’ve always been fascinated by cults, but this went waaaay too graphic about the multitudes of abuse that happened (to both adults and children), with hardly any reflection of how it affected her. She can still be quite defensive about everything. I’m also disappointed in how she went from having no self esteem to rocketing over to pretentious and egotistical. I’m really glad I got this on Prime Day instead of paying full price for it.

Another side note - did anyone else get the feeling that she might be bi or gay? Her portrayal of some of the girls/women were much more descriptive and seemed like she was way more attracted to them than any of the boys/men in this book

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shanamcq's review against another edition

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challenging dark hopeful tense fast-paced

5.0

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hunkydory's review against another edition

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challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

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sara_m_martins's review against another edition

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This book is far too graphic in the abuse described.
Plus, the writing style and the form feel weird and dissonant, as the sequence of events goes from pages of different but relatively-mundane life (like building a wall) to extremely abusive and traumatic scenarios.
Additionally, I think I would rather read a more removed perspective - i.e. a biography instead of an autobiography

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opheliasviolence's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Don't go into this expecting it to be about nuns or the Catholic church. It's about breaking away from a cult.

Trigger warning for the entire book. There's abuse of all kinds and SA.

This was hard to read at times. It's beyond infuriating to read what happened to the author. How her parents let the abuse happen. Even encouraged it.

This book was fucking disturbing. There's no other way to say it. The magic trick thing made me want to vomit. As did the sharing. There was so much heartbreak in her life.

I think it's important that Faith got to tell her story. I'm so glad she got out. Her strength and perseverance were incredible.

I'm not going to rate this. Read this knowing that it contains child abuse. Just be prepared. The author gives descriptions that may be triggering to some people.

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