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Book Review of Hidden Wives

Hidden Wives
Hidden Wives
Author: Claire Avery
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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At times I felt like I was reading from a newspaper instead of a Novel, but the material is an accurate depiction of some of the more opressed groups who practice pologamy.

This novel tells a story on several levels - how someone can be pulled into a cult in the name of God, and how, when in, becomes so brainwashed that they loose site of what is right and wrong. After joining the "Blood of the Lamb" community, a mother has been so brainwahed that she is willing to hand over her daughters to older and related men because their leader"had a revelation"

One daughter, who is beautiful, is wanted by most of the men in the compond, but falls in love with a young man she is forbidded to marry. The story was not as compelling as I had hoped, but was a "good" book.