A review by bubblewombat
Truth Matters: A Father's Rebuttal of "The Witness Wore Red" by Lloyd Wall

medium-paced

2.0

I recently finished The Witness Wore Red, so naturally I had to read this too. I'd read Cole's book too if it was available still. If anyone knows where I could find it I'd be very grateful.

Anyway yes, this is basically Rebecca's father "proving his daughter wrong" about her own childhood. But if you ask me, he's only proving her, and Elissa, right. I'm inclined to side with survivors of abuse over those who didn't protect them from said abuse, sorry!!

The book is often repetitive, I'm assuming to fill up page space, and the rebuttals aren't actually anything huge (like the dining table/eating together or the downstairs/upstairs and TV situations, do you think readers really care about that?), except in the case of Rebecca's CSA. 

Mr Wall, please consider that there is a possibility you really weren't told about it and that it really did happen. You believe your daughter about Rulon and Warren, why is this any different just because it happened in your home?

Also saying how Rebecca wanted to marry Rulon because she'd have access to all these things, credit cards, private flights etc, how would she know about that until she was in the prophet's family?

I will say I do believe one thing here, and that's the story of how her parents met, and how her mother was assigned to her father's family. I can see it happening that way, and Mr Wall would probably know that better than his daughter, but the rest...