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“The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly” by Stephanie Oakes, is about a 17 year old named Minnow  who has twelve years of her life taken away by a cult leader called the Prophet. After many years of seclusion in the woods  with no hands from her father cutting them off, and with no communication to the outside world, Minnow starts to realize that everything she has learned and gone through may not be what they seem. Slowly everything in her worlds starts to crumble as she escapes from the cult’s camp and ends up in a juvenile detention center for beating a boy almost to death. When she meets Angel, her roommate, she starts to see that maybe this world may not be as bad as it could be. The way Stephanie Oakes writes in this book is incredible and very descriptive so that you feel as if you are living in Minnow’s shoes. Will Minnow learn how to live outside of the cult and learn to deal with her inner demons? Or will her past get the best of her? Find out more in “The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly".