taralovesbooks’ #CBR5 Review #37: Not Without My Sister by Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, & Juliana Buhring

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Cannonball Read V: Book #37/52
Published: 2008
Pages: 432
Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir

Like other people have said, the title of this book is a little misleading. The book does follow three half-sisters who grew up in the Children of God cult. However, they are in and out of each others lives and barely know each other, much less refuse to leave without each other. The first half of the book is divided into three large chunks with the background of each sister – Celeste, Kristina, and Juliana. The second half weaved the sisters’ stories together and quickly changed narrators every few pages. I found the second half was really hard to keep track of everyone because their backgrounds, childhoods, and family members were very similar.

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