Cult, A Love Story, Alexandra Amor
Cult, A Love Story, Alexandra Amor
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Cult, A Love Story
Ten Years Inside a Canadian Cult and the Subsequent Long Road of Recovery

Author: Alexandra Amor

Narrator: Alexandra Amor

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2022


Synopsis

For fans of Educated, Captive, and Leah Remini's Troublemaker comes the gripping true-life story of one young woman's accidental journey into a cult. And her escape a decade later.It's rarely obvious when a group is a cult. Most cults don't advertise themselves as such: they are groups of people who look and act just like you and me. Not dangerous. Not deranged. At least, not at first.The slide toward complete control of your personality, your thoughts, and your life is slow and virtually unnoticeable. Until it's too late.In this award-winning memoir, Alexandra Amor shines a light on cults so that others might learn from her heartbreaking experience. Amor gracefully and sensitively explains how ordinary and intelligent people get seduced into joining cults, why they stay despite the emotional and psychological abuse, and what the long process of recovery looks like once someone leaves a cult.Amor's transparency about her decade-long involvement with a Vancouver, Canada cult makes this powerful and gripping book an excellent resource for those wanting to know more about how the mind control of a high demand spiritual or religious group works."This excellent memoir reveals how a charismatic, manipulative spirit medium can use love for God and neighbor as a hook to drag a small group of devotees into her cynical web of impossible goals for self-perfection. After a heroic struggle for insight, Alexandra Amor was one of the cult members who broke the abusive spell." Joesph Szimhart, Cult Information Specialist

Reviews

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on April 12, 2023

I see a frog on the cover, I read it. Nah, I'm kidding, I do love frogs though. And for this frog there's a really good explanation as to why it's on the cover, but you'll have to read the book to see why. I enjoyed listening to this, Alexandra narrated the book herself and I really loved the way she......more

Goodreads review by Jill on January 17, 2020

There’s a line the author writes, describing her readjustment to life outside the cult: “I’d sit on the couch for hours, not seeing anything in front of me.” This is exactly how I felt reading this book. Was the author brave for expressing her feelings in how she was drawn into—and out of—a tiny Cana......more

Goodreads review by Amber on April 19, 2023

It's one of those books where there's nothing particularly wrong with it, but there wasn't really anything new here. It was a combination of vague information about this cult and cults in general. It didn't really go as deep as a memoir and it wasn't overly informative either. But it seems like a pe......more

Goodreads review by Lacey on October 12, 2023

Girl you’ve got to get over him.......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on November 27, 2018

Wow. Just wow. In order to help a client write a memoir about her own experience of religious abuse, I've been reading lots of cult-immersion-and-escape stories. Very very intense stuff. Leah Remeni's self-extraction from Scientology is the funniest and most entertaining, but this memoir, from a pers......more