The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

This was a good read and I would recommend it to anyone who likes mystery and cult books.

How the fire loved this girl, kiss her and the house embraced her was a horrible yet poetic scene. She is forced to face the reality of her past and her painful present while others try to unfold the mystery of the cult and the death of its radical leader. The scene towards the end of the book of the girl walking into the fire and the author giving the fire human trades will always stick with me. About Sacred Lies A teenage cult survivor finally finds freedom, friendship and hope in a juvenile detention center. I also read that this book is loosely based on a Grimm fairytale, which I can also see that. I love the description and the names of characters kinda have this undertone that must be connected to the bible. Something else I enjoyed is the author's writing. But in this book you are specifically looking at everything thru a person who was made to go along and who didn't want to go with everything around her. Isn't it all made up? I wish we could've been in the view point of the people who did follow the cult leader and believed everything because that is a point of view I always wondered about. They are very interesting and in a way the way the story is set and the idea of how this man made a religion can bring up questions about your own religion. I really enjoyed the stories of the 'Kevinian' religion or cult. You see that she just had a strong spirit from day one and she was never going to fit into this world of restrictions that the people around her were trying to tie her down to. Their is something very aspiring about the main character and her will to survive and to learn. From what I know this book isn't based on real story but it can easily be based on things we have all seen on the news. This was a very interesting read that keeps you hook from chapter one. I picked this book after seeing that a show based on this book was coming to tv.

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes