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Review: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes – Emertainment Monthly

By: Cynthia Ayala

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly is an amazing novel that will touch the readers and grab them by their emotional heartstrings. Based loosely on the Grimm fairy tale The Handless Maiden, this novel will embed the reader with strong emotions within the unforgettable imagery[…]
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A Painful and Beautiful Story of Identity and Hope | Review of ‘The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly’

By: Cynthia Ayala

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes
Dial/Penguin

Stephanie Oakes’s debut novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly is a tale loosely based on the Grimm Fairy Tale The Handless Maiden. Published June 9, 2015 by Dial/Penguin, the novel follows one Minnow Bly, as she escapes from the cult her family dragged her to only to be thrown into a murder investigation of the man who took her hands: the so-called Prophet of the religious commune.
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