Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, Juliana Buhring
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 358259
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0007248075
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.760922
EAN: 9780007248070
ASIN: 0007248075
Publication Date: April 2008
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Product Description
Kristina, Celeste, and Juliana were all born into the Children of God cult, and from as early as three years old were mistreated and used as sexual beings. They were denied access to formal schooling, forced to wander the streets begging for money, and were mercilessly beaten for "crimes" as harmless as reading an encyclopedia. After being separated from each other and their mothers and forced to live in various missions with multiple foster parents, the sisters eventually managed to escape. In this startling expose, they have come together to reveal in horrific detail the group that has destroyed the lives of so many. Their intertwining stories reveal a community spread throughout the world whose legacy of anorexia, depression, drug abuse, suicide, and even murder are impossible to erase. Together, the sisters found a strength that finally enabled them to uncover and free themselves from the shadows of their past.
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Life Inside A Cult June 28, 2008
What I liked about this book was that it gave three different perspectives from within the same family and time frame, and also that it didn't sensationalize the abuse, but did give it appropriate coverage. Ran a little long, but was an interesting and easy read.
 WELL DONE June 28, 2008
I bought this book simply to support the effort to raise awareness of the inner workings of The Family. I didn't think I'd ever get around to reading it, as I have hundreds of books that I have not yet read.
Upon seeing the size of it I felt confidant that I would never read it, however, after skimming through it and seeing all the familiar terminology and names, I decided to start from the beginning. I finished it in 5 days. That's fast for me.
I could relate to almost every situation, and to all the feelings of frustration, boredom and anger that arose from being in those kind of situations. I will never go back.
After spending the first 20 years of my life in "the family" I can say from first hand experience that the information presented in this book, is an accurate representation of life in "the family".
Anyone who has a problem with my review can write me at outofwords@hotmail.com
Not Without My Sister May 18, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed Paperback book The book was damaged when I received it. It is a very good bookespecially if you like true stories.
Very sad but excelent book March 7, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
picked up this book and could not put it down,it is soooooo facinating and mind blowing how this has been alowed to happend,i feel for all the people invloved and feel this book need's an award it is so well written and the bravery to have written it,best book i read for a long while
 Could have been shortened by 50 pages February 21, 2008
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
I picked this book up because I was drawn to the cover. Hey, I liked it. I'd heard of cults before, of children being abused by anyone and everyone, including relatives, but picked this up to read more on it, and it was cheap. Can't really complain.
I found the book really easy to get into it, although I did find it difficult to differentiate between the three sisters' intertwining stories. As each told their story, you would get drawn into that sister's world, but then struggle when it came to the next chapter, and you had to get into the mindset of the next sister. I found this confusing, and couldn't get into the story as well as I could have done.
I totally lost the thread of the story towards the end, and ended up skipping a lot of pages to find out what happened to the three sisters in the end. In my opinion, it could have been about fifty pages shorter, and it would been good, but I probably just completely lost it. I wasn't that 'into' the book anyway, which is probably the reason for losing the thread.
Other reviewers have gone into detail about the story more in their reviews, I can't really add anything to it, so read their reviews. But it is a harrowing book to read, and it takes a lot to get it out of your head.
My only minor quibble was, did it actually happen? Was it true? The sisters stories do start from when they were very young, how much of it was elaboration?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. But otherwise, a reasonably good story if you're into that kinda thing.
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