Escape by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
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Book Reviews of Escape
Book Review: A really good read
Summary: 4 Stars
Very interesting and informative book that delves deeply into the FLDS. Well written, keeps you involved right to the end. A truly courageous woman who stood up to a tyrannical husband and her sister wives. Cannot believe this still goes in America! Am looking for more books on the subject now. Well worth reading.Book Review: Escape
Summary: 4 Stars
Fascinating read about a culture most folks could not imagine. Well written story. Most of the time I was reading this book, my jaw was on the floor and I was shaking my head. Incredible tale of endurance, patience, tolerance and strength. A good book for someone who thinks THEY have it bad. Wow......Book Review: so real
Summary: 4 Stars
it's a good book...read it. i was little bothered by the way the author kept repeating things that had been clarified earlier in the book, making some parts of the story choppy. however, her story is amazing and so is she!
Book Review: Compelling Story, Abysmal Writing
Summary: 3 Stars
This book was written during the rise and fall of Warren Jeffs and provides a lot of insight to the inner workings of the FLDS cult. How sad to think that women and children in this polygamous society are destined to a life of servitude, humiliation, and abuse. Mothers are not allowed to show affection to their children, children cannot watch TV or read books from the evil outside world, and young teenage boys are routinely kicked out of the cult because they are perceived as a threat to the older men. Even grown men can "fall out of favor" and have their wives, children, homes, and businesses taken away from them in the blink of an eye.
Carolyn's story is a riveting one and I found myself cheering her on throughout the book. Unfortunately, the book itself was poorly written which I found to be quite disappointing. Her writer seems to have written out everything verbatim making the text stiff and clunky. It just doesn't have a nice conversational flow to it. Plus, there are places throughout the book where Carolyn seems to contradict herself or abruptly switches from one scenario to another, leaving the reader hanging. A good writer/editor could have fixed that.
Still, the book is worth reading for an inside glimpse of how polygamy really works and the shameful way the FLDS leaders treat and manipulate their dedicated, brainwashed members. I applaud Carolyn for having the courage to ESCAPE with 8 children who went kicking and screaming with her. She faced insurmountable odds and overcame them with courage, grace, and determination.
Book Review: Now with new & improved lies
Summary: 1 Stars
I see Carolyn's come out with an update, but like the rest of the book, she filled it with outright lies & gross distortions. She wants to scare us about the children's diet of "carbohydrates & little protein," yet "forgets" to tell us that their diet was primarily vegetarian (with home-grown fruits & vegetables), supplemented by dairy products supplied by their own dairy, as well as eggs & chickens from their poultry farm. This is the kind of diet our own ancestors followed & one that nutritionists & doctors would love us to follow. She also conveniently "forgets" to tell us just how sick the children got once they were put on the CPS-approved & -supplied diet of junk food. Later, she tries to explain away the fact that CPS could not verify all of her wild claims of widespread physical abuse of the women & children. The reason CPS didn't find any evidence of widespread physical abuse is there wasn't any to begin with. No bruises, cuts, scrapes, secondary trauma, head trauma, scars, etc were found on the children or the women. She then states at one point that she was not allowed access to the children, but then states how the children told her 2 daughters they looked "scarey." Unless CPS was allowing her unfettered access to children she wasn't related to in foster care (which is against the law, btw), the only place she could have had access to them was at the concentration camps set up by CPS. She & others were reported to have been there by media at the time.
She has no proof of any of her wild claims. Her wildest allegation, that of "waterboarding," wasn't even mentioned in her book & she never said anything about it until reports of waterboarding at Abu Gharib & Gitmo were made on the national news. How "convenient" of her to "remember" this happening while she was in the FLDS.
Save your money. Don't buy this book.