Week Seven Book Six--The Chosen One

I could not put this book down! It was definitely a haunting read!

Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way. That is, without questioning them much—if you don’t count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle—who already has six wives—Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.

Can you imagine it--being thirteen years old and told you MUST marry your sixty-year-old uncle? Pretty creepy! And this book is creepy--the decisions enforced on the people, the discipline given to the children, the behavior of the "Prophet" and his "Apostles." I couldn't stop thinking about this book after I put it down. A haunting read but a great one--pick it up!