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| His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Ray Schmidt
Publisher: Kassidy Lane Publishing LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 10915
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 445
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 097797300X
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780977973002
ASIN: 097797300X
Publication Date: June 15, 2006
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Product Description
His Favorite Wife is the heart-stopping, inspirational narrative of a courageous fifteen year-old girl who becomes the sixth wife in a polygamous marriage. Cascading with well-developed characters, this true story will capture your soul and imagination as the author reveals how a group of kind-hearted, sincere people are led to embrace this controversial lifestyle in their pursuit of the highest degree of glory. Laced with surprising brush-strokes of humor, this heart-rending saga will take its readers on a journey that outsiders whisper of and shudder about. It answers the question that a polygamist's wife is asked countless times: How can you tolerate sharing your husband? In North America today there are over thirty thousand polygamists. Many of them lead secret lives in their attempt to hide from society and U.S. laws. Their women are taught that obedience, unquestioning acceptance of polygamy, and giving birth to huge families of children to follow in their parent's footsteps, will assure them a celestial crown. Few search out truth for themselves, but trustingly follow their prophet. Susan's book deals with this head-in-the-sand ignorance. She too, was one of these women.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 78 more reviews...
Couldn't Put It Down... May 14, 2007
56 out of 61 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book, very well written and engrossing. This woman's life is or has been so far removed from anything that I've ever known that it almost seems unbelievable - but after living in Utah for a few years I know that every detail is absolutely correct. I've always wondered how intelligent people could be fooled into living this lifestyle and this book makes it clear. The people in the book are complex, her busband is an awful man with no concept or seeming concern for his wives and children; he makes them live in proverty and fend for themselves - but as strange as it sounds he believes that he is a loving man with everyones best interest at heart. He is so totally deluded about his own superiority simply because he is male that he also misses out on real love and family kinship. He is a likeable man - flawed by his own upbringing. I was not expecting the criminal element of the book, the murders in God's name - this group, or parts of it turned out to be the Polygamist Mafia. Truly a wonderful book and so full of action and odd characters, I'd love to see it as a movie.
An Amazing Story...... Recommend for BOOK CLUBs January 2, 2007
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
I wanted to know more about polygamy and thought it would be an interesting subject to read about. I have never read such a detailed personal struggle as Susan's. I felt like I was in every situation she was in. This book has it all -conspiracy, murders, poverty, husband-wife relationships, strained yet fulfilling relationships with women/sister wives, and all the children! The pictures in the back were especially interesting. I chose this book for my Book Club. It was a hit b/cs there were so many issues to discuss.
Couldn't put it down... September 16, 2007
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
What a powerful, moving, educational and disturbing read! For much of this book, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was reading fiction. How could people really believe what they were doing and how they were living. It would have been a great work of fiction, but because it was a true story, I often found it very disturbing. So disturbing that the story incorporated my dreams many nights after I put it down and went to sleep.
I read the whole book in a week. It only took me that long because I just had to get some sleep and work all day instead of read. Susan Schmidt wrote a book that captured my interest. Were it not "true", it would have been the best book I've read in a long. What a nut "Ervil" turned out to be, but truthfully, all the brothers were "nuts" in my interpretation of that word. Thank God Susan was a smarter girl than she initially appeared, and as she matured, she accepted the truth that was tugging at her heart and soul.
I always knew those wives weren't all peachy happy. I read this book to find out the truth, and thankfully, I now know what I suspected is correct.
 Brain washed January 20, 2008
19 out of 25 found this review helpful
I have read Irene's "Shattered Dreams" and yes, it is the better book. That said all women should read these books.
This 'religion' is the bench mark for brain washing. 14 year old girls being told they must marry these old men so that they both can get into heaven.
The husband of both Irene and Susan had 10 wives and 56 children!! He was a house painter! Couldnt provide a good living for one wife much less 9 others.
These women and the children lived in poverty. No lights, no bathrooms, no furniture and their clothing was brought to them by the husband from thrift shop cast offs.
It is absolutely disgusting. In my opinion this "religion" is all about these disgusting men wanting a new young wife every 6 months! In other worlds, it is about these men wanting sex. Getting into Heaven and being a God is their
con
to have these young , very young, girls to submit to them and have sex!
Good Read November 7, 2007
12 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book was a good book however it pailed in comparison to "Shattered Dreams" written by her sister wife. This is the reason I gave only 3 stars. I did not like the direction I felt the book was taking early on in the story. I got the feeling from reading that the author was too absorbed with herself to explain her life. I hate to say it but when I read "Shattered Dreams" I felt compassion for Irene. I felt I could relate to her as a human however, I found it diffucult to read about Susan because it seemed as if it was a "poor me" story line. I am not saying the book was not a good read it was just not a great read.
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