I was watching something on the Turpins, and heard that the eldest daught wrote a book. So, I bought it.

It's... Interesting. It's not bad, it's just interesting.
There's very little editing, and if you know the case, you know how uneducated those poor kids were, so the entirety of the book is written in her short, choppy prose. Sections aren't exactly linear, with some chapters bouncing around her being 21, and then she veers back to stories from when she was 18, but then back on path at 21.
She has a whole chapter dedicated to the signs she saw from God, and it broke my heart... The signs were just normal coincidences, like a key just happening to work on a lock, or the weather turning from dark to clear. She remained faithful, despite everything she and lived through...
And, just, I wish she wouldn't have held back on her mom. She talks about both parents beating her, scratching her, just awful abuse, but she says her dad changed her mom. Like...okay yeah, he was always abusive, but girl wtf. Some of these kids were so malnourished they lost ovarian function. Yeah, her mom was scared her dad would kill them, but she didn't change after she went to prison, and the author said they
always lived in a filthy, hoarded house. Like, there were fucking snakes in their home because they had nice eating the garbage. She event recounts how she cleaned once, and her mom beat her for it, and made her dump the trash back out. Her daddy didn't do shit, that woman was always a disgusting bitch.
But she said she hopes to see laws passed for better control of homeschooling, and checks for kids, and hell yeah.
7/10