TLDR: Well written and engaging, but super duper depressing. 
So yeah, religions with better press do just as much abusing kids and oppressing women. This book’s study of Mormon historical and recent violence (child r*pe, murder, honor killings, etc) was written at an interesting time. Krakauer compares two extremist “religious fervor” murders to the 9/11 attacks, and the book was about 15 years too early for him to know about the whistleblowing on the establishment Mormon church’s $100s of billions in hidden assets. My takeaway was - in the end, the religious extremists are often exactly what the religion’s founders were like, despite the modern church’s attempts to create distance from them. The more out there the beliefs (also v v interesting given how recent and how much info on Mormonism’s founding we have) the further into the group people will go. And there are a lot of people willing to take advantage of that.