The Robertson family, those who have been brought to the
attention of the world via the popular series DUCK DYNASTY, add another book to
the growing collection of tomes revolving around the family. This time out we
get the word from Jep and Jessica Robertson about their lives as individuals
and later as a couple. But this time we get something more than we’ve come to
expect from a book about this family.
As I said, the story told involves both of their lives
before they met and became a couple. Not only that, it tells of the troubled
lives they had during those years. For Jep that story involves some heavy duty
drug use. For Jessica it involves a previous marriage for all the wrong
reasons. In the end the two stories collide to form their current lives
together and finding that they can overcome all with the saving grace of God.
Perhaps the best and worst of their story revolves around
the fact that they lay bare all of their past secrets for everyone to see. Of
these the one that seems to be getting the most attention from the press is Jep’s
revelation of sexual abuse as a child from someone he knew. But there is more
to their lives than that one segment. Neither has a past with no problems and
that makes them more human than die hard fans might be willing to believe. But that’s
what makes their story so valid and important. It shows that bad things do
indeed happen to good people but that those things can be survived.
The abilities to tell their tale might not rank high on the
literary scale but they do indeed seem to be written by the two of them without
an overabundance of assistance. It feels like the words are coming straight
from them. That brings the story all the more believability than many would
expect. Moving back and forth from one to the other, we get their stories prior
to meeting and then a dual perspective of the times they’ve shared together. It’s
a fresh way of doing things.
If you love the Robertsons my guess is that you will love
this book. If you hate them then you should learn to lighten up and dig deeper
than the hateful words tossed out by the PC police. Give the book a read and
see if they aren’t more normal than you’ve given them credit for. In the end
their journeys apart and together make for a good read that will help you
discover who they really are.
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