Wife Number Seven by Melissa BrownMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow. What an emotionally charged book! To say that I loved this book would be a COMPLETE understatement...i'm OBSESSED with this book.
Brinley was such an amazing character. She is the seventh wife of a nasty man named Lehi Cluff. I was so glad this book was written from her point of view so that we can see what goes on in the mind of this sheltered girl. Brinley was brought up believing that everything and everyone outside of her cult-like community is sinful.
"When you were raised to think that everyone outside your community was bound to an eternity of punishment and misery, it shaped your expectations"
You get a peak inside the mind of a girl who wants more out of life than just to bear children for a husband she does not love. What's so amazing about her is that she clearly could have been like the other women who "drank the kool-aid", but she is so level headed- considering all that has been brainwashed into her since birth. The "community" she lives in is so eerie. They have reminders of how to behave read to them by the "prophet" spoken to them through a loud speaker during the day. The prophet determines who marries who and his decisions supposedly come from the lord above. Brinley can't help but feel that she doesn't belong in this odd existence, but stays there out of fear. It isn't until she see's a man from her past that her mind starts screaming for something more than her life of solitude.
On one of her trips to the store, Brinley get's her purse stolen by a druggie; a druggie with a very familiar set of icy blue eyes.
"When the bag didn't give, the man turned back and glared. His blue eyes bored into me and I lost my breath. I knew those eyes."
Porter was shunned from her community at a young age, but Brinley never forgot him. Although, Porter is no longer the boy she used to know. Clearly, life outside of the community has not been easy for him and Brinley immediately recognizes that something is off about him. Although he stole her purse, Brinley cannot get him out of her head.
Not going to give anything else away- but what I can say is that seeing Porter again sets off a chain of events that change the life of both of them, forever. Can these two broken people find love with each other or will their very different lifestyles be the death of them?
NO! YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK TO FIND OUT!!!
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