Sam Brower did not know who Jon Krakauer was when the investigation was initated but, over time, they became acquainted and developed what seemed to be a solid respect, and brotherly-protective friendship of and for one another. He walked the reader through each phase of the investigation to include, but not be limited to, the following: initial contact, crimes, modes of dress, work ethic, mindset, geography, FLDS historical break from mainstream LDS, "Lost Boys," child abandonment, human sex traffiking (sp?), abuse of power/leadership, the FLDS national and cross-border network(s) and the cultures of those locations, state laws, convoluted relationships and genetics, political dynamics, legal challenges, prosecutions, etc. It gave the reader a sense of someone that wasn't about destroying a group but more about rescuing the victims that were desperately pleading for help from anyone that would listen. Sam Brower did an excellent job of detailing his life-story and what led him to initiate the investigation. He prided himself on being the investigator who worked hard at liberating the victimized people of the FLDS and, he made it clear that his upbringing in the Mormon Church (mainstream LDS) was not to be confused with the behaviors of the aforementioned radical group.
The book began with a tone similar to that of Jon Krakauer but, over time, Sam Brower developed his own voice.one of which I could not get enough. It was such a compelling book that I wanted to learn more about this group of people and found myself simultaneously motivated to read more books (on any subject) by Krakauer.įinally I could see this book up close and saw the title, "Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints" by Sam Brower, Preface by Jon Krakauer. I had already read Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven," which pertained to the history of Mormonism in the USA and placed a focus on the FLDS and how two brothers murdered their sister-in-law and baby/toddler niece in the name of God. I first saw the cover of this book from a distance and couldn't get to it fast enough! I had thought it was a Jon Krakauer book that I had been waiting to read. It's just sickening to think about, especially since I don't live far away from one of Jeffs' "safe houses." Read more It's just amazing to me to think that there is actually a group like this in America, the land of the free, where young girls are married off to older men, young boys are cast away to keep them from "stealing" away those young girls from the older men, and the "law enforcement" within the town completely disregards the law of the land when it goes against Jeffs' desires and decrees.
Sometimes there are just too many names to keep up with, and sometimes the book felt like it dragged some (especially towards the end, at least for me), but I think this book is a worthwhile read. And he does an excellent job of describing what exactly was going on in Short Creek and how he tried to bring the men responsible for the abuse to justice. I think that Sam Brower does a good job of sketching the group's history, from how it started to how Warren Jeffs rose to power within the group.
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The line between underage rape and a self-annointed prophet's doctrine is nowhere to be drawn in "Prophet's Prey.DISCLAIMER: I received this book free from the publisher through the Early Reviewer's program.After having read Elissa Wall's memoir about the abuse she suffered in Warren Jeffs' FLDS, I was interested in reading more about the group and its leader.
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We hear from a series of members of a terrifyingly extended family: men and women, many of whom claim to have been abused by Jeffs. Until recently the FLDS base camp was located in Short Creek, Ariz., just over the Utah border, though Jeffs (blessed with "really good taste in real estate," according to one of the film's primary talking heads, author Jon Krakauer) established compounds in various scenic locales. "Prophet's Prey" is infinitely more persuasive and moving for having gained the trust and access of such interview subjects as Janetta Jessop, wife No. The FLDS Church, still going strong in pockets of America, Canada and Mexico, allows for polygamy. The subject is FLDS Church leader Warren Steed Jeffs, a lanky spectre of a religious leader, whose control over his followers, estimated somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000, became a waking nightmare of sexual exploitation and abuse.
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