Full Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a review.

2.5 Stars

While I liked paragraphs and moments of this book, it did not move or made me change my ideas about leaving the church. While both RHE and I both left do to doubting and questioning, her leaving the church was less dramatic than mine. Nonetheless, while she reaches definite decisions and points and is able to work through for leaving the church and searching for a church that would accept her just as she is; I have not found that - yet.

The way she wrote the book she has it set up in the seven sacraments of the church, which is a major focus on Catholic and Orthodox Church, and it is important in Evangelical but not a constant focus. Which is fine, but the memoir is loosely based on those ideas and it felt a little contrived, like she wasn't sure how to chapter and decided to just titles the chapters the sacraments and moved on. While most of her angst is against the Evangelical movement, I thought it was strange to label chapters the sacraments.

Also, she started off writing that she didn't want to write this book and an author should never admit that because that was stuck in the back of my head the whole time and I kept thinking, if you didn't want to write this then why did you write this. I can't really pinpoint this feeling I got from the book, but I felt the book wasn't complete and that something was missing - it just didn't feel finished. It does feel like it is a second book in a trilogy - okay, but you know that another book is coming. It felt like filler with nothing new.

Overall, it was okay but not really for me.