Review: Courageous, but not good
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
I won Sacred Road: my journey through abuse, leaving the Mormons & embracing spirituality in exchange for a review.I admire Mr. Preston for having the courage to write this painful story of his life growing up in a strict Mormon culture and living with a very abusive father. He is to be commended for his courage in telling this story and for finding his way out of a life where he was controlled in everything he did to a life that was under his own control.That said, I was not terribly moved by or interested in this book, because I have read a lot of memoirs and novels about escaping restrictive religious traditions and recovering from abuse that are a lot better than this one. The sentence structure, style, and flow of this book are pedestrian. It was very hard for me to sustain my interest, and I actually just skimmed the last third of the book because I had read enough. Writing this book was clearly cathartic for Mr. Preston. Reading it was not terribly interesting for me.