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After the Fire
by Will Hill
As reviewed on www.dineanddish.net.
Maybe it is because I was an impressionable teen when the Branch Davidians compound was sieged, but I've always had a fascination with the lives of cult members. After the Fire is loosely based on the former cult from Waco, TX and was so fascinating to read. Told as a fictional account from the perspective of some of the children who were able to escape and taken to a hospital for therapy and evaluation, this book kept me up late at night reading.
Readers are taken on a journey from the past to the present, given insight into the minds of cult members....how they were brainwashed into not trusting the government and believing that the compound they lived in and the leader they worshiped was akin to God himself. Through multiple therapy sessions, Moonbeam (one of the main characters and eldest children from the cult) discovers her story has more layers than she ever thought possible. The line between what she thought was the truth and the actual truth becomes increasingly clear.
Maybe it is because I was an impressionable teen when the Branch Davidians compound was sieged, but I've always had a fascination with the lives of cult members. After the Fire is loosely based on the former cult from Waco, TX and was so fascinating to read. Told as a fictional account from the perspective of some of the children who were able to escape and taken to a hospital for therapy and evaluation, this book kept me up late at night reading.
Readers are taken on a journey from the past to the present, given insight into the minds of cult members....how they were brainwashed into not trusting the government and believing that the compound they lived in and the leader they worshiped was akin to God himself. Through multiple therapy sessions, Moonbeam (one of the main characters and eldest children from the cult) discovers her story has more layers than she ever thought possible. The line between what she thought was the truth and the actual truth becomes increasingly clear.