Church of Lies

Couldn't Put it Down

This is a disturbing book to read and infuriates me that activity is tolerated in this country. I was deeply moved. The writer kept me on the edge of my seat and ready to get involved!

If you want to know more inside information on what life is like on the inside of a polygamist cult and efforts to extricate oneself from it, this book is for you!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Another interesting look at this cult

This book was really, really interesting. Flora Jessop is a hero that had to claw her way out of her severely abusive polygamist upbringing. This book takes you through her struggles, starting when she was only eight years old. I do have to say, some of the scenes in this book are heart breaking and extremely graphic. But in my opinion, they did serve their purpose. This book will open your eyes to the absolute horrors that go on EVERY DAY in this cult. The awful things that are ignored, accepted, or even celebrated. The disgusting practices regarding marrying children off to old men, kicking boys out of the community for the sole reason that they are competition to the old men, and the rampant child molestation that happens to the children living there. All from a woman that lived it first hand.

This book was definitely worth the read.

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Strangers like me

When I first read this book it took me a few chapters to realize that, yes, polygamy is WRONG on multiple levels but for some it is all they know from the time they are born until they die. For those strong enough to want something else, it takes a lot to break free of this life. In some cases, it becomes a literal war or manhunt. I recommend this book to people that wish to know what really goes on in America behind closed doors and get a "through the eyes" look at a woman who escaped this horrible life.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Extremely graphic content and language!

I was unprepared for this books crass language and vulgar wording! The aweful enough facts (?) relayed could have been handled with dignity and class but instead come off as cheap sensationalism - perhaps even total fiction. Very disapointing!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Huh

I was half way through the book and there is a glitch! The rest of the book is pages 121-123. Over and over and over again. What a crock!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great Read!

Church of Lies is a great read! If you are interested in learning about the inner lives of the FLDS, this is the book for you :)

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Highly recommended

Another saga of the life of women (and men) in the FLDS, and how difficult it is to escape and adjust to life on the outside. Wonderfully told.
BonnieS

BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!

THIS IS A SAD, BUT CAPTIVATING STORY!!!!!! A MUST READ HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!! YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Fabulous; blows whistle on corruption in FLDS

This author is incredibly courageous and has carried out a one-woman campaign to reveal the corruption, lies, misogyny and basic male piggishness of the men who run the FLDS, which proves to be no better than David Koresh's group or other cults that have splintered away from mainline denominations. If there's one book you should read to understand the entire phenomenon of wife and child abuse, this is the one. It's also timely in that Warren Jeffs has been sent to prison, and he is a key figure in the book.

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