I reviewed this for Shelf Awareness (3.5 stars) Kelsey Osgood's second book, Godstruck, is a thoughtful group biography of seven women who have taken the "wildly countercultural" step of embracing organized religion, after growing up outside of or minimally connected to it... [full review at link]

I enjoyed Hana's story most, but was baffled by the way the author kept interrupting the flow of each woman's story by segueing into her experiences as a Jewish convert. I had to go back several pages to make sure I wasn't in a new chapter - staying on topic for each religion would have made the story much more cohesive and easier to follow. It feels like a disjointed mess, constantly switching back and forth.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC!
OK, this one is hard to rate for me. I enjoyed most of the book. I felt like I learned a lot about religious experience and why people might make the choices they do. I liked all the six stories of the other women who joined a religion, and I liked the chapter about the author's religious experience as well. The only problem I had was the very long segments of the chapters about the other women that the author wrote extensively about herself and digressed off into some very murky and hard to read philosophical bits. It really broke up the flow of the womens' stories and made them harder to read, for myself personally. I wanted more info on the women in those chapters, and less digression.

The idea of converting of leaving the religion of your family their ideas and beliefs is not an easy decision and usually not that easy to accomplish.The author who converted to the Jewish faith knows it is not an easy path to take to accomplish or to be accepted into.I was fascinated with each women's decision her choice from the Mormon Church to the Amish which is a complete life change.,.Each woman the author interviewed was open in sharing her experiences and this was a very interesting eye opening read.#netgalley #viking