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Tara Westover

4.49 AVERAGE

iegonzalez's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

pandamonious's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

morg_walk's review against another edition

4.75

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What a powerful story of Tara’s escape from abuse. How real she was in her story to constantly wavering between her family and freedom, between her truth and the narrative they pushed on her. 

dondon1503's review against another edition

3.0

informative medium-paced

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Solid book. Very interesting encounter of the authors life growing up. Crazy mentality on her parents part. 

brittpredmore18's review against another edition

4.0

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I mean wow, what a challenging life and so many adversities to overcome. I had to keep reminding myself this was a memoir and actually happened to the author. It read like a Kristin Hannah novel, where you couldn’t believe this happened. The reality and depth of emotions the author works through is incomprehensible to me.
Loved that it didn’t feel like a memoir!

ashli_k's review against another edition

4.25

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

vpeguri's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

mz_olson_8's review against another edition

5.0

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I struggle when reading memoirs because reality is so painful and unjust at times, but this book was so compelling—I had to know what happened next. I highly recommend this book to everyone.

bethanmc13's review against another edition

5.0

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A tough read. Well written. Why couldn’t she have stayed with her grandparents?

readsinthewind's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced