This book is a lot to process in relatively little time. I don't even have much to say. The brutality underscoring the whole thing is intense. 

On the one hand, I learned quite a bit about the history and founding of the LDS church, and where FLDS sects sprang from. The history alone is enough to digest, but when it's intertwined with the murder of a woman and her 15 month old baby girl...

One could almost argue that, without the extreme fundamentalist beliefs, the murders wouldn't have happened. Then again, if it wasn't FLDS, the Lafferty brothers likely would have found something else to justify their violence. We can never know what would have happened, but this book paints a vivid picture that is impossible to ignore.

TW: Some graphic violence, including sexual, is present. It includes graphic descriptions of several murders, and non-graphic but plainly explained sexual violence against women and children. It's all in a journalistic style, with stark language.