Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007 At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith. Free Read [ Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs ] Author [ Elissa Wall ] – kino-fada.fr I read this to gain balance after reading Caroline Jessop s Escape I found this book too full of self pity and self glory but with a paucity of background information on the FLDS That isn t to say it isn t a good book it is a chilling story well told and the book presents a muchrounded picture of life with its happy times as well as sad than Escape did.Stolen Innocence reads quite strangely, but you can t put your finger on what is strange and why it is until you reach the last few I read this to gain balance after reading Caroline Jessop s Escape I found this book too full of self pity and self glory but with a paucity of background information on the FLDS That isn t to say it isn t a good book it is a chilling story...Biographies that detail the lives of those who have been involved in religious organisations can be particularly difficult to present, though my literary journey has brought me three in a row While the thoughts of this review are my own, I realise that religion and politics are so deeply seeded in the psyche of us all that we can take opinions that differ from our own to heart I fall victim to personal sentiments at times and am using this book as a foundation to discuss funda...I ve read other books on polygamy, seen movies, and had a friend who grew up in a polygamous family in Utah Many of the stories in this memoir are similar to others I ve read religious cult community1 husband with many wives and children The prophet determines when a marriage is to take place Husband is encouraged to rape his wife Sex is never talked about with girls until her wedding night and then she is suppose to submit to her husband clothing covers the body is very I ve read other books on polygamy, seen movies, and had a friend who grew up in a polygamous family in Utah Many of the stories in this memoir are similar to others I ve read religious cult community1 husband with many wives and children The prophet determines when a marriage is to take place Husband is encouraged to rape his wife Sex is never talked about with girls until her wedding night and then she is suppose to submit to her husband clothing covers the body is very conservative.taught specific beliefs about the path to eternal salvation, brainwashing.child molestation rape emotional physical abuse etc In Stolen Innocence , I listened to the audiobook , we get ain depth comprehensive understanding of how the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FLDS Church , is different from the LDS church, Later day Saints Both church affiliations believe in the...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I didn t care for this one nearly as much as those by Carolyn Jessop and Flora Mae Jessop When I first started this book, I had high expectations Learning that Elissa s father was not born and raised in the FLDS was intriguing and drew me in How do two intelligent people Mr Wall and his first wife find themselves conned by this cult of fundamentalism I would h...I ve read everything I could get my hands on about the FLDS in the last couple of years This is another book about a woman who left the religion after years of abuse she was married at 14 to her first cousin This cousin then spent years mentally and physically abusing her before she broke awa...Astonishing I think, for me, this was evenastonishing than Carolyn Jessups book Escape which was my entrance into the polygamy I knew only the definition of the word before reading Escape and have since been gathering almost everything I can find on the subject This was a real quick book mainly because you really can t put it down The emotion is so raw it s scary I found myself feeling so many different things at so many different points in her life story One thing I liked a lot is Astonishing I think, for me, this was evenastonishing than Carolyn Jessups book Escape which was my entrance into the polygamy I knew only the definition of the word before reading Escape and have since been gathering almost everything I can find on the subject This was a real quick book mainly because you really can t put it down The emotion is so raw it s scary I found myself feeling so many different things at so many different points in her life story One thing I liked a lot is that the reader gets two points of view from Mrs Wall, one from her childhood and one from her adult life I use that term sparingly since she was technically a grown up in the FLDS at age 14 She didn t leave the group until years later so we do see a much desired difference in her ways Adding what happened with the court case, as of the time of writing was nice also for anyone who didn t follow the court proceedings like myself This is definitely i...I am easily obsessed with these stories of women oppressed by and then escaping from the FLDS Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, an offshoot of the Mormon Church.This is heavy shit The author was forced to get married to her first cousin when she was 14 I think the husband was 19 She was then forced to perform her wifely duty with him Yikes Bad news Bad, bad news The happy news it that she finally found true love and escaped from the oppressive religion.I am for religious I am easily obsessed with these stories of women oppressed by and then escaping from the FLDS Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, an offshoot of the Mormon Church.This is heavy shit The author was forced to get married to her first cousin when she was 14 I think the husband was 19 She was then forced to perform her wifely duty with him Yikes Bad news Bad, bad news The happy news it that she finally found true love and escaped from the oppressive rel...I wanted to read this book after reading Carolyn Jessop s book on the same topic living in polygamy I think this addscredit to Carolyn s account I was wrapped up in this story and found myself crying when the verdict was read against Warren Jeffs This girl has overcome a lot of challenge...As a religious person, I tend to approach the whole how I broke out of my crazy abusive religion memoir genre with some caution I ve read some pretty off the wall descriptions mostly in fiction, though occasionally in books purporting to be non fictional memoirs of abuse and suffering perpetuated by people claiming to practice my religion Generally, even when the experiences being described ring true, I think a critical reader can see that the psychological dysfunction is what s causing the As a religious person, I tend to approach the whole how I broke out of my crazy abusive religion memoir genre with some caution I ve read some pretty off the wall descriptions mostly in fiction, though occasionally in books purporting to be non fictional memoirs of abuse and suffering perpetuated by people claiming to practice my religion Generally, even when the experiences being described ring true, I think a critical reader can see that the psychological dysfunction is what s causing the bizarre religiosity rather than the other way around It s harder to make this distinction, though, if you re not familiar with the religion being described or the people practicing it Not being too familiar with the FLDS religion and community, I wondered whether typical polygamous families and arranged marriages in that context resemble Elissa s experiences in Stolen Innocence I remember being fascinated by the descriptions of FLDS life in Under the Banner of Heaven while I read it and then wo...I greatly admire and respect Elissa Wall, but not her book obviously written with the help of an amateur journalist Yes, the story SEEMED interesting enough for me to pay 25, but wasn t worth it in the least I guess it could be a good beach read but check it out of the library, or at least wait for the paperback This book is no work of art, and certainly wasn t life changing The writing was laugh out loud terrible I guess I have to give it to Elissa, though she certainly had a tough I greatly admire and respect Elissa Wall, but not her book obviously written with the help of an amateur journalist Yes, the story SEEMED interesting enough for me to pay 25, but wasn t worth it in the least I guess it could be a good beach read but check it out of the library, or at least wait for the paperback This book is no work of ar...

• English
• 18 July 2018
Elissa Wall
• Hardcover
• 438 pages
• 0061628018
• Elissa Wall
• Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs