A review by bdilley28
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

3.0

This book took me FOREVER to read. While I was busy with school and working, I found it hard to read more than a chapter of this book a day. While the content was very heavy, I found this book much more difficult to read than Know My Name even though they have very similar themes. I was trying to place why I did not like this memoir compared to others, and I came up with a few reasons. Firstly, I felt as though the pacing and timeline was odd. It began with Daniella's early childhood and ended when she was in her mid 30's. While I don't think this is a necessarily odd timeline, I wished there was more chapters written about Daniella acclimating to life outside of a cult before the chapters about joining the army. Additionally, I didn't really find motivation to read the chapters about the army since it is not something I would normally gravitate towards. Overall not bad but not my favorite memoir I have read.