Educated by Tara Westover is a memoir about the author's childhood growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho. Her father, being anti-establishment, never sent her to school and her homeschooling consisted of finding books to read to herself around the house. At 17, she studies for and takes the ACT, is accepted to Brigham Young University, and from there goes on to earn a doctorate at Cambridge. It is a story of overcoming one's trials and pushing through to achieve what shouldn't have been possible. Reviewing a memoir is difficult, because while there are parts of the story you may dislike, you can't fault them for being what happened to the best of the author's memory. This book was extremely well written. It is clear that the author is well read and well educated in the way she presents the story. There were times, though, where she was quoting her mother or sister from emails that were written and she changed their verbiage completely to match her
In this psychological thriller, questions of ethics and morality swirl around the twists and turns of the plot. You'll find yourself asking who is lying? Who can be trusted? How is Jessica going to extricate herself from the manipulative web of lies that she finds herself?! "An Anonymous Girl" by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen is a fast paced, page turner that will leave you questioning every single character right up to the end.