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A review by tirwinreads17
After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss
4.0
I enjoy reading both fiction and nonfiction about cults. Is a cult book enthusiast a thing? If so, that’s me.
I enjoyed this enough and would give it a 3.5 rounded up to a 4 out of 5 stars. It was definitely a different twist and focus on typical cult stories about a girl, Avery, and her cult brother, Cole, trying to find their way in a society they’ve never known after a fire destroys their compound and kills most of their “chosen” family. They escape, only to find they were abducted as children into the cult and there was at least one other survivor who knows the truth about their abduction and what happened with the fire.
The description made it sound a little more interesting than it actually was. I just felt like there wasn’t much of a plot. I thought based on the description that there would be more searching for others that escaped from the cult and more secrets and excitement. The last half hour of the audiobook was probably where the most of that was.
I think the audiobook version was fine, but would have been even better with multiple narrators instead of just one trying make multiple different voices, male and female.
Thank you NetGalley, Sourcebook, Dreamscape Media, and the author for advance reader and listener’s copies in exchange for an honest review! -@tirwinreads
I enjoyed this enough and would give it a 3.5 rounded up to a 4 out of 5 stars. It was definitely a different twist and focus on typical cult stories about a girl, Avery, and her cult brother, Cole, trying to find their way in a society they’ve never known after a fire destroys their compound and kills most of their “chosen” family. They escape, only to find they were abducted as children into the cult and there was at least one other survivor who knows the truth about their abduction and what happened with the fire.
The description made it sound a little more interesting than it actually was. I just felt like there wasn’t much of a plot. I thought based on the description that there would be more searching for others that escaped from the cult and more secrets and excitement. The last half hour of the audiobook was probably where the most of that was.
I think the audiobook version was fine, but would have been even better with multiple narrators instead of just one trying make multiple different voices, male and female.
Thank you NetGalley, Sourcebook, Dreamscape Media, and the author for advance reader and listener’s copies in exchange for an honest review! -@tirwinreads