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a_chickletz's review
4.0
That ending, my goodness.
I had just finished reading Stolen Innocence and decided, eh, might as well dig into this book too. Continuing my read on the FLDS cult. This time was a group of FLDS people in Mexico, just near the border of Texas.
Ruth Wariner's book honestly at times almost made me cry. The book is a memoir of her time through the ages of 6 and 12 (she escaped/left the group with her brothers and sisters). I can't believe she could remember the things she did so well, but I think when something so tragic happens and your life is a constant of that... it just never leaves you.
I had a very difficult time trying to level my sympathy with her mother. Her mother was in a marriage to a man with four other wives, and this guy had over 20 kids. He was a disgusting piece of shit that beat her and also molested his children. How the fuck she allowed this religion to come first instead of going to the authorities, I'll never know. She did, and every damn time something wrong happened, she kept apologizing to Ruth and at the same time crawling back up his ass to give him more children. Bless her, I don't think I could do it.
The last couple chapters had something happened that honestly made me gasp out loud and made the story do a total 180* in terms of emotion. I almost cried and I hardly cry reading books.
It's a rough read, but worth every page of someone calling out this disgusting cult.
I had just finished reading Stolen Innocence and decided, eh, might as well dig into this book too. Continuing my read on the FLDS cult. This time was a group of FLDS people in Mexico, just near the border of Texas.
Ruth Wariner's book honestly at times almost made me cry. The book is a memoir of her time through the ages of 6 and 12 (she escaped/left the group with her brothers and sisters). I can't believe she could remember the things she did so well, but I think when something so tragic happens and your life is a constant of that... it just never leaves you.
I had a very difficult time trying to level my sympathy with her mother. Her mother was in a marriage to a man with four other wives, and this guy had over 20 kids. He was a disgusting piece of shit that beat her and also molested his children. How the fuck she allowed this religion to come first instead of going to the authorities, I'll never know. She did, and every damn time something wrong happened, she kept apologizing to Ruth and at the same time crawling back up his ass to give him more children. Bless her, I don't think I could do it.
The last couple chapters had something happened that honestly made me gasp out loud and made the story do a total 180* in terms of emotion. I almost cried and I hardly cry reading books.
It's a rough read, but worth every page of someone calling out this disgusting cult.
caro_reynolds's review against another edition
I truly tried to push through this book but I couldn’t. I don’t get why there are so many 5 star reviews. It’s just so poorly written (like 8th grade personal essay) and dull. Maybe it gets better? Maybe it gets interesting? But I can’t last long enough until it does.
dannybrown59's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
5.0
I feel like with every memoir I read I couldn't rate this less than 5 stars. Ruth survived so much and I cried a lot while reading this. It was such a heartbreaking story.
wildflowerjen's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
shailydc's review
4.0
It's scary that people are allowed to have kids and treat them the way Ruth and her siblings were treated. The Sound of Gravel is very similar to [book:The Glass Castle|7445] in that respect.