Gersande La Flèche commented on Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of …
Content warning CW: Everything? Warren Jeffs and the FLDS is a brutal example of human cruelty
Easy read because it's clearly written, which is a relief because the subject matter can be really intense in a bad way. A page turner, too. I have a lot of thoughts about everything but it's quite jumbled.
What's wild to me about all of this is the era it was happening in. 2003-2004 was the era of Islamophobic panic across France and Canada and the USA, and then you have these intensely white supremacist bigots out in the desert enacting religious laws that are absolutely horrific and abusing children and men and women and doing a lot of human trafficking and slave labour of children but it's fine because it's (mostly) Christian. Right? UGH.