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Rating  - Haunting
Escape is an extremely disturbing account of Carolyn Jessop's life as the fourth wife to a monster. This is a chilling account of how evil polygamous marriages are. That every last polygamous wife isn't a nut case is an absolute miracle.
Carolyn Jessop recounts her life in this cult and it is hard to put the book down. I think because it is happening right now in our country and not stopped; it is the saddest account I've ever read. Women being treated worse than animals and then thanking their husband for that treatment!
I think the only way I was able to finish reading this book and HAD to finish it was so I could read that Carolyn escaped this torturous life.
The book continues to haunt me.
Rating - An Important Book
This is the tale of a young woman who is born into the FLDS and against all odds escapes with her children. It is a story that everyone should read because many people are not aware some of these truly horrific things are occurring in America. It is an enlightening book that made me want to take a stand.
Rating  - Painful to read but worth it.
As a mother, and an independent and happily married woman, I found it very difficult to read. The abuse of children by the other mothers, the abuse by husband and "sister wives", the abuse by parents, cousins, uncles etc. was sometimes more than I could read. And Jessop was not very descriptive and purposefully vague of the horrors she could only hint at. Her awakening comes when "evil doers" on the outside show her and her children more compassion and tenderness than her own family and community. Her child's cancer is blamed on her "rebellious nature". She firmly believed in FLDS but came to see the monster her husband and Warren Jeffs was making of what her beautiful faith should have been (or was promised to be). See it is never clear if Jessop loses faith altogether or loses faith in the FLDS leaders. But her courage, her reserve of strength, and her determination was an inspiration. But I still found it difficult to live her life through her eyes (veiled as she made it for the reader).
Rating - Riviting Story, Excellently Written
Amazing story. As I read the descriptions of the abuse and power culture in the FLDS I was reminded of similar forces I've seen at work in a fundamentalist Islamic country I visited a few years ago. While the Islam I saw came no where close to approaching the depth or scope of the FLDS it does seem that religions that teach male dominance (which can be, but is not necessarily expressed through polygamy) naturally develop a culture of abuse. The cycle of abuse leads to more abuse which flashes out from time to time in acts of horrific violence.
This is a story about one lady in the FLDS, but it's not just her struggle. It's a struggle felt by millions of women around the world It's a struggle for rights that every humane person in the world should deeply feel and fight for. I highly recommend this book.
Rating - Escape
I know that there are two sides to every story, but I still felt a great compassion for the poor ladies stuck in this lifestyle. This was an excellent read, and it definitely left me wanting more!
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