A review by _l__n_r
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs

2.0

Eh. I was looking forward to reading this, even though I knew it would be tough to read, because cults are fascinating. Warren Jeffs is monstrous, and I can't blame Rachel for her writing style being pretty detached because you do what you have to DO to get through it. That said, I frequently found it difficult to gauge how much time had passed; it would seem like a lot had happened and then Rachel would say, "We stayed at the hiding house in Nebraska for two weeks." Oh. So alllllllllll of that was two weeks. Ok. Or like 3 years would go by in two paragraphs. It was just difficult to keep track of. My only other gripe is that omfg there were SO MANY SISTERS AND SISTER WIVES I COULD NOT KEEP TRACK OF THEM ALL. I never had any idea who someone was unless it was Becky.

Breaking Free is super dark. You know going into it that Rachel is going to get out and it's great that she finally does, but her "happy" ending didn't really do much for the fact that a) everything that happened in the book is true and b) Warren Jeffs is still alive. It brought me down so much that I finished it in one day just to be done with it. I didn't enjoy this one and don't recommend it.