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A review by peripetia
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
I'm dnf'ing this around 50-55%. I rarely dnf this late in the book but it's just not going well and based on the reviews, it won't get better.
I wanted to read this because I read No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by the same author. That book was great and I read it at the right moment. Based on the title of this book, I was expecting something about, you know, women we buried and women we burned, but so far this theme is nowhere in sight.
The book is marketed misleadingly. This is not about VAW, nor is the religious community she's in a cult. At this point in the book, we're still going through her childhood, and as tragic as that was, I was expecting the story to get somewhere.
The way that the book started and based on the reviews, I expect much of the book to be about her backpacking around and that's just not interesting to me.
It always feels wrong to call a memoir bad, and maybe this wasn't, I was just expecting something else. Huge disappointment.
I wanted to read this because I read No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by the same author. That book was great and I read it at the right moment. Based on the title of this book, I was expecting something about, you know, women we buried and women we burned, but so far this theme is nowhere in sight.
The book is marketed misleadingly. This is not about VAW, nor is the religious community she's in a cult. At this point in the book, we're still going through her childhood, and as tragic as that was, I was expecting the story to get somewhere.
The way that the book started and based on the reviews, I expect much of the book to be about her backpacking around and that's just not interesting to me.
It always feels wrong to call a memoir bad, and maybe this wasn't, I was just expecting something else. Huge disappointment.