Book Review: Escape by Carolyn Jessop

This book will make your hair stand on end. Carolyn was made to marry a 50 year old man when she was 18. She had three days notice and hardly knew the man. He already had three wives and would marry two more after her. He would have six wives and somewhere over 36 children. She tells of the abuse that went on in the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the cities of Hildale, AZ and Colorado City, UT. It is not a book for the faint hearted. Nor is it a book for people younger than 21. It is graphic and it is brutal. It will make you have a new understanding of the arrest of Warren Jeffs and the recent removal of nearly 200 women and children by authorities in the FLDS compound in Texas. It is easy to read something like this and talk about how terrible it is, shake our heads and wag our fingers and then walk away. We need to let this spur us on to pray for these people. They need our prayers. They need the Light of Jesus. They need their eyes to be opened by the truth of God's Word so that they might have true freedom and liberty in Him.