Escape (2007)

While I was reading Carolyn Jessop's "Escape," I felt as I read it before. I searched my reading history and found Elissa Wall's "Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs." Parts of the stories do overlap. I felt better knowing I was not losing my mind.

I'm glad they got free and live happily today. ( )

It's almost hard to believe that this is fact, and not fiction. Or that this took place in the US. A gripping read! ( )

I liked the way the book was written, how it jumped around in time, but that also backfired, because it led to some confusion. And it wasn't super well-written. The story was interesting, but I wondered why Carolyn Jessop kept her married name and didn't go back to her maiden name, which would have seemed to be a logical choice. ( )

Fascinating in a can't-look-away fashion of a polygamous household in the Fundamentalist LDS Church. The details of this young girl's life, marriage, subsequent 8 births is a litany of stupidity, naivite, and misogyny. There is abuse on many levels but the keenest is reserved for the 30 some children (offspring... he hardly treated them like human beings) of the Patriarch. It should be required reading for any young woman as a reminder of why education and financial independence is key to a worthwhile life. ( )

Fiction. Her life in the FUNDAMENTALIST LATER DAY SAINTS ( FLDS) cult and her escape. Well written and very interesting ( )