Kusuma's review
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
by Irene Spencer
Kusuma's review
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer
Kusuma's review
rating:
This is, again, a book I would have given 3.5 stars if possible. I liked the book; didn't love it. I didn't think Irene Spencer was a particularly talented writer, but for the purposes of telling her story, she didn't really have to be. What she was saying, told in simple English, was compelling enough.
I often wondered about people this freakish. Not much about the story was unexpected. She spent her life barefoot, pregnant and living among misogynists. Big shock. I was also slightly let down by Irene herself. She didn't take the intiative to leave the bastard for good, though she tried. She just kind of waited around for him to die and seemed to think it was a "message from god." Meanwhile, she let her kids live in abject poverty. Suckage.
The part of this book that pissed me off the most was that these women are living on welfare. Ummm, talk about abusing the system. Let me have 14 kids because God (and my freaky loser husband) are telling me to. This s...more
I often wondered about people this freakish. Not much about the story was unexpected. She spent her life barefoot, pregnant and living among misogynists. Big shock. I was also slightly let down by Irene herself. She didn't take the intiative to leave the bastard for good, though she tried. She just kind of waited around for him to die and seemed to think it was a "message from god." Meanwhile, she let her kids live in abject poverty. Suckage.
The part of this book that pissed me off the most was that these women are living on welfare. Ummm, talk about abusing the system. Let me have 14 kids because God (and my freaky loser husband) are telling me to. This s...more
