When I first started reading this, I had to put aside by snobbishness - the author isn't necessary a writer, and she tells her story in more of a conversational than documentary manner. I've known that Scientology is scary for years, but to read what Hill's actual experience was like is terrifying. Forced labor through Sea Org, never-ending audits designed to get information to eventually use against her or her loved ones (under the auspices of "clearing" her), and disrupting her family ties are just a few of the tools the Scientology organization practiced to keep Hill - and all Scientologists - off kilter, never knowing who they could or couldn't trust and nurturing paranoia about the word outside of the cult. It's run like a Soviet-era oligarchy, and it's not easy to reconcile that the IRS gave it religion status. That needs to be revoked and the organization investigated for its abuses.