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A review by sunflowersabrina
Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones
challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.5
Very interesting book. I can’t exactly say I enjoyed reading it, but it’s not really the sort of book you’re meant to enjoy. A very clear look at how cults and systematic abuse shape your worldview as you grow up and how you can become attached to and complicit in a system that perpetrates terrible things even while suffering under that same system. At the same time, it shows resilience and the realities of facing the truth about what you’ve done and what’s been done to you and breaking out of a cycle of abuse.
This book is very focused on the author’s own experience (understandable) and sexual abuse. It is often explicit and this may be hard or triggering for a lot of readers (it was for me). It also glosses over the strong undercurrent of racism within the family and how messed up a lot of elements are like Witnessing.
This book is very focused on the author’s own experience (understandable) and sexual abuse. It is often explicit and this may be hard or triggering for a lot of readers (it was for me). It also glosses over the strong undercurrent of racism within the family and how messed up a lot of elements are like Witnessing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia