Judy Robertson
Författare till Out of Mormonism: A Woman's True Story
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I couldn't have been more disappointed with the book.
The book begins with her life pre-Mormonism, but the author, Judy, only gives the most basic explanation of why & how they converted to Mormonism. Something as life changing as CHANGING YOUR RELIGION isn't going to happen overnight; I think she was trying to simplify the story, in order to move the plot along, but she oversimplified way too much. As she talks about converting, she kept talking about how internally she kept screaming that this was wrong -- and I just don't buy it. Maybe it's the way she wrote it or maybe it just seems way too awfully convenient to me that she had doubts - because seriously, if she had doubts, why on earth would she have converted? If she did have doubts, then she should have explained it better so the reader would better understand where she was coming from.
The next section of her book explains how they converted, some of the things that they had to do day to day, & then all of a sudden they decide not to be Mormons any more & they are just allowed to leave. I don't really know much about that (which is why I read the book in the first place) but it just seemed way too easy to just leave. If it was really that easy to leave, why wouldn't more Mormons who want to leave the church, actually leave the church? So their friends were disappointed... so what? I just didn't get that.
The last half of the book was extremely preachy: I think what Judy & her husband is doing is wonderful, helping other Mormons to escape, but the whole second half of the book is devoted to that work. If that was the whole point of the book (which after reading the book, it seems that way to me), then the book should have been called How I Help Mormons to escape, instead of Out of Mormonism, because little was devoted to her escaping.
On TOP of all that, the book was so badly written & edited, I kept cringing inside, & I'm by far not the best writer. So if I'm cringing, imagine how bad the writing was.… (mer)