Man, Scientology is cray-zay. One thing that surprised me about Jenna's life growing up in Scientology with nearly zero contact with people from outside of the church, is that Scientology itself is so crazy that it made her decide to leave...and she didn't even learn about the alien parts until after she left and watched the famous South Park episode about Scientology! Of course she speaks highly of online communities for ex-Sci members and all of the activities of Anonymous. Another insightful thing was all of the ways the church tried to control, threaten, and brainwash people into submission, just for the lust of power. This was revealing to me because while these techniques were systematized and openly taught within the church of Scientology, they are often subconsciously taught and modeled to MANY mainstream churches and religious youth organizations. I've heard some of the specific wording given to Jenna firsthand at Christian youth camps and other such events. Maybe people who spearhead these types of pointless moral witch hunts know what they are doing and do it intentionally, just for personal pleasure of controlling other people's lives and emotions. Jenna's uncle and head of Scientology, David Miscavige, certainly does.

To reviewers who said it was boring: Jenna does go into great detail about various punishments and types of auditing sessions she has to go through, and it does get repetitive. But I think she wanted to stress just how insane the whole system is. No wonder she finally snapped, and so many others did too! If you think these parts of the book are useless, imagine spending 20 years of your life in that environment, like Jenna did. Regardless, I think it's important that these experiences are documented.

The audio narration of this book is great and the reader's voice fit the character perfectly.