Reviews

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

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 Ruth’s captivates me! What resilience and bravery! May each one find true freedom and God’s love as each still is finding his and hers way!

TW: abuse, negligence, suicide, child death, polygamy

💬𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘵:𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮.𝘤𝘰𝘮/𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴/

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

nana_sandra's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

elemar's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful sad medium-paced

4.25

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

croselli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

aaafton's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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.

hrumon's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

minan2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75