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A review by alexandrabree
Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
3.25
Short 6 hour audiobook, picked it up from the library. Honestly would recommend podcasts and the documentary Shiney Happy People over the book.
There was a good bit in the middle when it looked like Jill and her husband would stand up for themselves and that kind of happened but mostly fizzled... the beginning was not bad but could have been more condensed but the peek into how things started and snowballed was interesting. Michelle went up a little in my opinion even if she is excessively passive in her horrible husband's choices, he seems to be incredibly manipulative, selfish and greedy, and she is by default by doing nothing as he tramples his children's lives (but his children are also ultra passive in standing up for themselves). The part everyone wanted to know, the Josh scandal was like 1p pages right at the end?
Jill is measured and mature in how she responds to her family's pressures and accusations and doesn't lean into the gossip but also isn't hard enough on the choices her parents made and the level of damage done by the IBLP
There was a good bit in the middle when it looked like Jill and her husband would stand up for themselves and that kind of happened but mostly fizzled... the beginning was not bad but could have been more condensed but the peek into how things started and snowballed was interesting. Michelle went up a little in my opinion even if she is excessively passive in her horrible husband's choices, he seems to be incredibly manipulative, selfish and greedy, and she is by default by doing nothing as he tramples his children's lives (but his children are also ultra passive in standing up for themselves). The part everyone wanted to know, the Josh scandal was like 1p pages right at the end?
Jill is measured and mature in how she responds to her family's pressures and accusations and doesn't lean into the gossip but also isn't hard enough on the choices her parents made and the level of damage done by the IBLP