Do you want an escapist read? With fun dialog, rainbows, lovers with blue eyes and, preferably, a sixpack?Then don’t read this book. "In that moment, a whole line of men, older men went past in my head. Their mouths in O shapes, their eyes wandering like hands over some of us unmarried girls.”“... a...
Whoever thought this was a good book for young adults/teens needs something, I don't know what. It is completely not a young adult/teen book. Maybe okay for High school students but anything less, absolutely not. The concepts and images depicted in this book are of a rough nature and hard for younge...
This book made me so sad and so angry. It’s a portrait of a community – the Chosen Ones, the laws within it and a 13-year old girl who wanted more, who dared to stand back. It made me so sad because it’s so real, there really are communities like this one out there. Some people are living like this....
It’s something of an understatement to say that this book was captivating – it’s almost too gentle or whimsical a word to describe the way I was completely gripped from the first page. And that’s not just a bit of zealous-reviewer hyperbole on my part. Whether I was actively reading The Chosen One o...
"There's a day when you realize that you're not just a survivior, you're a warrior. You're tougher than anything life throws your way." *Brooke Davis; One Tree Hill I love books about how books change your life and books changed Kyra's life so much in this story told by Carol Lynch Williams. I can...
For me, polygamy never fails to be an interesting subject for fiction. Carol Lynch Williams' The Chosen One takes the perspective of a child and wife-to-be: thirteen-year-old Kyra Carlson has been chosen by the Prophet of her family's isolated religious community to become the seventh wife of a sixt...
Kyra has three mothers, one father, and twenty brothers and sisters. She lives in a compound led by The Prophet, a man who is in “close communication with God.” Over the years, the compound has become more and more closed off from the outside world. With the fence that was built around the compou...
This was a book about a girl who was raised in a Polygamist Mormon community and is told that she has to marry her much older and cruel uncle and be his seventh wife. Kyra doesn't want that, however, and has some knowledge of the outside world thanks to her sneaking books from a mobile library. She ...
I listened to the audio of this book. The Narrater, Jenna Lamia, was great. She has a very soothing voice. When the audio first begun, I realized quickly that it was written truly for a teenage audience. I pushed forward and continued to listen because I wanted to know about Polygamy and what goes o...
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