Natalie Grand

Such a creative way to tell your personal experience in the cult. This is such a good book for someone who is curious about what ex-JWs have/had to deal with when sadly they still have relatives involved with the cult.

I was able to relate to the author's experience, as I personally decided to part ways with this cult a few years ago. Love how it makes it very clear that they are lovely people when they want to convert you, but as soon as you "rebel" you become their worse enemy.

While reading this book it really made me think how was I ever involved with these people and how toxic they are. I'm so relived and thankful that I was able to leave, and my family also decided to leave with me.… (altro)

I was raised a Jehovah's Witness and I am an African American. This book was needed for young adults today! So many families and youth are affected by this mega cult. Ya- it is not as bad as how the women are treated in the middle east, but if we don't keep an eye on organizations of mega cults like this that let men judge and punish children and men, they could infiltrate in our government. Natalie told her story in a tasteful, light, fun, romantic nature and her grueling childhood was told in a subtle comedic fashion. I enjoyed the diversity and Natalie nailed the money culture and the gossipy nature of these miserable kingdom hall members. I want all youths to read!… (altro)

There is a reason this graphic novel keeps getting GOLD awards for graphic novels. It is because Natalie's true story is not depressing, it is a young romantic interacial love story with a back drop of an abusive mega cult. I found this book to be refreshing and timely of a global social awareness of how women and children are really treated in mega cults or regimes. This is something you want young girls to read, so that they never fall prey to an abusive, time sucking cult that will only suppress them and cover abuse.… (altro)

A roman à clef in graphic novel form about the author's experiences in leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses. There is some interesting information but it gets lost in a script that flits all over the place and artwork with layouts so busy and random it's hard at times to determine the right reading order of the panels.

The art is nice panel to panel and would have looked so good on pages of six panels with real gutter borders instead of nine to nineteen panels with black separating lines.

I think the script was trying to lighten the heavy cult stuff with some sort of Sex and the City or CW soap opera tone, but I just found it tiresome to read as it jumped around between questioning religious doctrines and swooning over the dreamy doctor. I had to stop in the middle to read something else just to shake off my growing frustration.

In the end, for all the accusations of being a cult, it was hard to separate out what makes this crappy religion significantly worse than all the other crappy religions out there. There are a ton of similarities to the Catholic church in which I was raised and which I deserted decades ago. Organized religion is rife with abuse and scams and other garbage best left on the curb.… (altro)