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susylamb's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
This story is hard! Not for the faint of heart! Absolutely sad and disgusting how people can be blinded by a cult and darkness and truth.
A story that needs to be heard to honor the victims and those who have escaped this horror.
Memoirs and stories like this one of Ruthโs captivates me! What resilience and bravery! May each one find true freedom and Godโs love as each still is finding his and hers way!
TW: abuse, negligence, suicide, child death, polygamy
๐ฌ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ต:๐ฉ๐ต๐ต๐ฑ๐ด://๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ.๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ.๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ/๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด/
A story that needs to be heard to honor the victims and those who have escaped this horror.
Memoirs and stories like this one of Ruthโs captivates me! What resilience and bravery! May each one find true freedom and Godโs love as each still is finding his and hers way!
TW: abuse, negligence, suicide, child death, polygamy
๐ฌ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ต:๐ฉ๐ต๐ต๐ฑ๐ด://๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ.๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ.๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ/๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด/
Moderate: Sexual assault
amygraver1's review against another edition
5.0
- Very interesting and extremely powerful, a testament to what humans can endure
- Wariner really set the scene and I found her writing to be vivid
- Wariner writes in a way that does not demonise those in her life that wronged her
- I grew to love this family and was emotional when it was over but even more emotional reading the ending
- Wariner really set the scene and I found her writing to be vivid
- Wariner writes in a way that does not demonise those in her life that wronged her
- I grew to love this family and was emotional when it was over but even more emotional reading the ending
kemmer's review against another edition
5.0
I love it when I find myself driving the long way home so that I can listen to just one more track. The Sound of Gravel was compelling, poignant, and fascinating.
sadietay's review against another edition
4.0
The epilogue made this a 4 instead of a 3.5 for me. Big trigger/trauma warnings in this memoir about a fundamentalist-Mormon group practicing polygamy in Mexico. It was honest, very disturbing, and heartbreaking. Ruth was able to breath so much light into her love for her family while writing about the horrors she and so many other children endured at the hands of her step-father and her community. Ruth is the definition of survivor.
minan2's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.75