Mister Magic

Since I've decided this blog will be my space to just say whatever is on my mind here it is, good bad, and everything in between.

Here's what I didn't put in my "official" review, as someone that has watched way too many episodes of Sister Wives and Escaping Polygamy this book is creepy on so many more levels.

The indoctrination, the little rhymes, the reports when someone does something wrong, the camps, it just hit on a different level.

I can only imagine what someone leaving a severe religious situation might face, the thought of losing everyone and everything you know, has to be the hardest decision to make.

For those that make that decision, I hope your life and the choices you make lead you to exactly where you need to be to heal and have the life you were meant to have.

If I had to describe this book in three words they would be Creepy, Creepy, and ohh yeah Creepy.

That being said I found myself obsessed with it, I will say I had a bit of a hard time getting into it but that was mostly because I had some thoughts swimming around in my head from things I had read about this book and the Author.

Once I let go of reality and just let the story take me away I found myself fascinated with this world, worried about the characters, and hopeful for a happy ending.

Trauma is a horrible thing, I'm not saying it's not, but trauma doesn't have to define us, we can move past it, we can take things that seemed so wrong at the time and then realize that they were just moments that sent us on the path we were always meant to be on.

Val, Isaac, Marcus, Jenny, Javi, and Kitty lived through something that was both traumatic and tragic, some of them moved on, some of them were changed forever, and some of them... well you'll have to read the book to find out.

I will say my heart broke for Val over and over again, trying to put the pieces of her past back together, trying to figure out why her dad did what he did, and trying to figure out who she can trust, over and over he grasp on reality is tested.

Trying to figure out how to write this review without giving anything away has been so tough, I know the Acknowledgements give some insight into the story, what inspired the Author, and what's real and what's not, but I feel like if you're going into this book you need to have an open mind.

For me, this would be a 4.5-star book but I'll be rounding it up to 5 stars for review purposes.

Thank you to Random House Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing an advance reader copy of this E-Book, I have voluntarily read and reviewed it and all Thoughts and opinions are my own.

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