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Amity And Sorrow (2013)

by Peggy Riley(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0755394364 (ISBN13: 9780755394364)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Tinder Press

review 1: I might have liked this more if I hadn't spent time studying religious cults and homegrown faith in America. But as it was it all felt so expected (one of the wives literally came from Waco). The brainwashing exhibited by the characters was extensive to the point of caricature. Amaranth's passive relationship with the first man she comes into contact with post-cult read like a woman fleeing one controlling situation into another one. Not to mention how convenient to the point of being contrived the idea of them crashing at a random farm and then building a home there. Despite the fact that it was ostensibly set in the modern world, it felt more like an attempt to recreate the farms of the 50s, of poverty and no technology. I don't know. I feel like it just missed what it c... moreould have been.
review 2: Amaranth and her two daughters, Amity & Sorrow, have driven for four days until they crash in Oklahoma. Amaranth is desperate to run from her former life - a polygamous cult where her daughters share one father with fifty mothers. Although Amity is keen to look to the future, Sorrow wants nothing more than to go home. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a lonely farmer, Bradley, who reluctantly takes them in.An intriguing story that delves into the relationships between very different individuals, a story that dwells on religion without preaching it at the reader, a story that is difficult in content at times but weaved together beautifully. less

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