Beat

My Journey Through Abuse and the Holdeman Mennonites

I was born to an abusive doctor named Ahaz in Kentucky, homeschooled and not even allowed to have friends. When I was nine, Ahaz discovered The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Holdeman) in Tennessee, and he forced us to move there.
The Holdeman's were religious exempt from education beyond the eighth grade, and I was beat for begging to go to a high school.
As a minor, I had to kiss approximately 200 different people on the lips, some of whom were complete strangers, for the sake of something called The Holy Kiss; only it didn't feel holy.
Ahaz determined to break my independent, inquisitive nature through severe beatings and worse, including deadbolting me within my bedroom and nailing my windows shut.
Multiple Holdeman Mennonites were aware of what was being done to me, yet no one reported it. Instead, I was made out to be mentally ill; a liar.
After years of suffering through emotional, physical, physiological and sexual abuse, how could I even survive?
No one could hear me then... will YOU hear me now?

Terrible childhood

This book was very repetitive. I’m guessing that the author was just trying to drive home the awful life that she was forced to live. She was failed by so many over the years. The true villain in the story is her mother. I cannot imagine having an out and not using it to protect my children. Absolutely disgusting. Also, I do believe that a 3rd grader could have read this book better than AI did.

she survived!

I love her courage and strength all the while she was being beaten and raped, molested by her father.

AI

This is a very inspiring story and I really enjoyed it! But having AI read it really took me out of the story, because of the mispronunciation of certain words and it wasn’t like actual hard words it was like breath.

Reader mid read too many words over and over.

Reader doesn’t sound natural and mis pronounced the same words wrong, over and over. Story is one of concern.

Raw truth

As a survivor myself, my heart broke for her. "normal" is a setting on the washing machine. Much love to the author!

The AI reader was fairly good, but mispronounced words got a bit annoying