Standalone Sunday: The Chosen One
Last week was my first Standalone Sunday, and I think I will try and make this a weekly feature on my site. Standalone Sunday was started by Megan over at Bookslayer Reads.
What is Standalone Sunday?
Each Sunday bloggers feature a standalone book (one that is not part of a series) that they loved or would recommend. The standalone can also be one you want to read. There is so much focus on books that are part of a series that standalone books seem to be forgotten. They can be just as great as book series!
Without further ado, here is my selection for Standalone Sunday:
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Book Description from Goodreads:
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.
I listened to the audiobook version back in 2014 and it made my Top 5 that year. I wasn’t expecting much from it when I picked it up at the library as the description on the cd case was very different from the above description. I wish I could get that description for you to compare, but it was something along the lines of Kyra enjoying reading and relaxing in trees.
There is something about FLDS and polygamy that I just find fascinating. I don’t know what it is, maybe because I am not a part of that culture and it is so extreme and different from what I live in. If memory serves, The Chosen One does not say that Kyra is part of FLDS.
I need to request this book from the library again so I can properly review it since I listened to it way before I was writing book reviews. I was taken on a roller coaster while I listened to this book. It is a short one. There are just five cds (5.5 hours of listening). According to Goodreads, it is just 213 pages.
It is a short enough book and can be read very quickly, I recommend everyone to give The Chosen One a try!