Julie's review
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer
It was interesting to me that a book on polygamy was on the Amazon Top 100, so I put it on hold at the library. I think the authors story, while certainly tragic, is different from most of the polygamist girls that are married off young. Her mother left her father (as did another of the fathers 3 wives) when the author was young. Her mother then begged her for years not to follow into polygamy. She had a nice guy she was in love with who was desperate to marry her - monogamously. Yet she still chose polygamy, and became the 2nd of what would be 10 wives to a controlling, selfish jerk. She was a mother to 14 children, before she had a nervous breakdown and ran away from her Mexican home, where she returned to for just one year not much later. Her husband died in a car crash just days after she told him she was going to follow through with the divorce she had been threatening for years. While visiting one of her sons in Alaska, she became a born-again Christian, and has now been ...more
this review should have had a spoiler warning attached. Parts of the book are now ruined for me that I wasn't aware of.
