The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People's Temple.

via Simon and Schuster

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Jeff Guinn

3/5 Stars.

DISCLAIMER: I was sent a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review from Netgalley. Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuester. All opinions in this review are my own. 

You may not have heard of Jim Jones, but you've probably heard the phrase "don't drink the kool-aid" The Road to Jonestown is a true, detailed account of the people's temple, everything from Jim Jones killing animals as a young child to his final sermon as 918 people were poisoned. There are so many questions around the entire case, from how this cult came about to why everyone committed mass suicide; and those questions are all answered in this book.

This book is so detailed and interesting if you're a fan of True Crime. It talks about Jones's childhood, his early days as a Methodist pastor, his compound in California, and his fateful trip to Guyana where the deaths occurred. This book opened my eyes so much. I thought this was a cult of crazed people, but the book shows how Jim Jones was a monster. He drugged and raped young women in his church, took parents away from their children, and forced parents to poison their children and watch them die. The entire situation is unbelievable; I had to stop while I was reading often to remind myself this actually happened. That being said, because the book is so detailed, it is very slow to read, and some of the middle parts are hard to get through. 

I highly recommend this book to true crime fans and everyone who is interested in this type of history.

The Road to Jonestown is available now everywhere books are sold. Thanks for reading another one of my reviews, and I'll see you all on Friday with my review of The Shack by W.M Paul Young.