My rating: 5 of 5 stars
FCC Warning: I won a free copy of the book. This has not changed my my stance on the book.
Hidden Wives centres around two teenagers named Sara and Rachel, both fifteen (though Rachel turns sixteen during the novel). They're sisters, or rather, half-sisters--Sara's mother is Anna Marx. Rachel's mother is Marylee Shaw. Both women are married to the girls' father, Abraham Shaw. They live in a polygamists' cult called Blood of the Lamb, in Utah. Both believe that marrying a man--most likely at least twenty or thirty years older, probably already with a few wives already--is the only way for them to keep from going to hell.
Sara's beginning to get skeptical. She's quickly discovering that she's too smart to ignore what she's seeing, blindly trust what she's taught. Unfortunately, others are seeing it, too.
Rachel believes in her religion with all her heart. No matter what, she is determined to always believe. Even when she's hurt, physically and mentally. Even when she falls in love. She's willing to stand by her religion until the very end...
The novels tells a gritty story, full of hurt and pain. But it's also undoubtedly a story of hope, and a story of truth. Highly emotional yet never graphic, Claire Avery (a pseudonym for the pair of sisters who wrote the book together) has brought a usually hidden reality into light with this new novel Hidden Wives. A fast-paced page turner, I read the last two hundred pages straight through. Highly recommended.
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