BOOK REVIEW for Children Of Darkness and Light, Lori Vallow, Chad Deybell and the Story of a Murderous Faith

 

Thank you to Simon & Schuster for sending me an e copy of this book.

TITLE:              Children of Darkness and Light, Lori Vallow, Chad                                            Deybell and the Story of a Murderous Faith

AUTHOR:       Lori Hellis

GENRE             True Crime

RATING:          3.5 stars

The author digs into the LDS church (Mormons) and while some of it was pertinent and interesting, it went on too long. It got convoluted and if you are not reading this book for lessons on being Mormon, you probably will end up drifting, as I did. It is obvious that she was setting up the situation so we could better understand Lori and Chad, but it was too much.

When she places Chad and Lori snack into the middle of their lives - both before they met and after, they met, its clear that religion (even distorted to the ump degree) was a major catalyst for their future actions. Although, I do question whether this was more about sex, power and money and a lot less on them believing they were assigned to the 144,000, although Lori seems to believe it and Chad wants Lori and power, so he keeps feeding her.

The description of the children was heartbreaking and the author did a great job of being respectful throughout the entire book.

Unfortunately, then we go back into further descriptions of Mormons and there is very little to do with Chad and Lori.

This book is 40% about Lori and Chad and the rest is on religion. Unfortunately, this is not the book I thought I was reading.

Kudos though for obviously excellent research.