A review by xxstefaniereadsxx
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton

dark informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

 One of the things that interests me the most about cults is how people find themselves taken in by them. Pretty much everyone has heard of Jim Jones and the People's Temple. What in the world was it about Jim Jones that was so appealing to people? What were people missing in their lives that they thought this was the answer? I haven't ran across very many people who could say they survived the events at Jonestown, so I was very interested in what this woman had to say. I cannot imagine living the life that these people did. The conditions were horrible. The treatment was horrible. The environment was horrible. I cannot imagine how much pain and devastation this event caused for so many who lost family members due to this insane man, and how traumatized those who survived his grasp must have been.