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Ukryte żony (2012)

by Claire Avery(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Znak

review 1: First of all, the young girls who are the subject of the story, Rebecca and Sara, do not in fact becomes wives, hidden or otherwise. It is definitely not an "insider" view of a Fundamentalist LDS sect in rural Utah; the authors (2 sisters writing under a pseudonym) are Catholic. While some stuff rang true from my other reading on this topic, some of it seemed way way off the mark. The story started well -- Sara, brilliant but being held back from access to an education; Rebecca, beautiful and devoted to God, and compliant), but as it went on, things got more and more fantastical. Also, certain turns of phrase were used over and over, and were unbelievable to begin with. For example, at several points, a character is pinching herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming th... moreis. (does anyone really do this in real life?) Characters are also frequently -- oh, wish I'd kept the book so I could phrase this the way they did -- but characters are blowing air up into their eyes to keep from crying. (again, does anyone do this in real life? is it even possible to blow air up into your eyes??). Things got really outlandish at the point where the girls escape the motel to which their father has abducted them (yep...) and take off in his truck with Sara driving, despite the fact she has never driven a vehicle before. (but she knows she can do it because she's watched their father drive) And this is not a little trip to hide out in the next town -- this is a drive to first Las Vegas, and then Los Angeles. In L.A., the girls, along with their Black non-Mormon friend from back home (don't ask...), are taken in at a shelter for teens and wind up telling their story to a journalist, which blows the lid off their community, puts their father in jail, etc etc etc. Actually, I was very tempted to just stop reading about halfway through and put it on the "can't bring myself to finish" list, but it was sort of like a train wreck; you just can't look away. What will happen next? How much more bizarre will this story get?? The answer to that is, way more than you would ever have imagined...
review 2: Hidden Wives is a work of fiction but much of the content is based on the organization known as the FLDS or Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Long name for an organized group of pedophiliac old men.Hidden Wives tells the story of two sisters 15 and 16 who have the same cruel misogynistic father but different mothers.They are actually at 15 hand 16 rather old becoming celestial brides as most of their friend have already been married off by 12 and 13.I had to read this book in small sections as it made me so angry I would have to put it down and wait for calmness to return.I did read the entire book through and I kept thinking that a country that allows this kind of thing to happen within its borders has a far distance to go before calling itself a free country.This book is another of my picks for a school reading list. A couple of interesting notes Warren Jeffs The actual FLDS leader is currently serving a jail term for child abuse.the author Claire Avery is actually a pseudo name for two sisters from Texas who cowrote Hidden Wives.they are Mari Hilburn,an attorney andMichelle Poche a journalist and screen writer. less

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