About book Child Bride: The Untold Story Of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (2006)
No one will ever know the real story what happened between Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. This book is probably closest to the truth than the others written. I never believed that Priscilla's step dad and mother were not behind Priscilla's romance to Elvis especially when they "allowed" her to basically move into Graceland when she was just 17 when she was months away from graduating from high school. I could not help but feel sorry for Priscilla dedicating her youth to please Elvis. Those were certainly different times. I am glad she survived and had the strength to leave him. It had to be very sad to watch him self destruct. Restoring Graceland to share Elvis with the world was a wonderful testament of her love for him. I am sure she had many unpleasant memories there. She is often criticized but I have nothing but the highest respect for her. She had to find her soul and discover who she was.
I found the author's treatment of the ex-Mrs. Presley's life to be thorough, but oddly mean-spirited. Finstad seems to feel that Priscilla Presley is a vain, self-serving charlatan who grew up with lies, based her relationship with Elvis on lies, and has lied about pretty much everything ever since.Although it's hard to take the fairy tale of Priscilla's Elvis and Me at face value, it's equally as hard to accept as truth Finstad's portrait of Priscilla as a cold, heartless harpy. Instead, I recommend Child Bride as a double feature with Elvis and Me. Taken together, Priscilla emerges as a multi-faceted individual, who did what she felt she had to, both for her own sanity, and what she considered the best interests of her daughter. I'm not saying I'd want to be friends with her, but I certainly admire her courage and discipline.
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This author hates Priscilla Presley. I don't know why but her vendetta against her is absolutely absurd. There's so much speculation, little facts, with quotes from Priscilla's book which I probably should have just read in the first place. It feels like it was written by Regina George from Mean Girls. I could overlook all of that bc I generally like gossipy trash BUT she lost me when she sided with Priscilla's rapist. I stopped reading after she told the rapist's story and used it to call Priscilla a liar for a whole chapter. It was sickening. Even by the rapist's accounts he was a rapist and that isn't acknowledged once. She just blamed a 14 year old Priscilla for getting attacked by a 28 year old man. Don't read this book.
—Stacy
The Child Bride was a very well put together book about who Priscilla is and who she never will be.I gave the biography a 5 because I feel the research was done to make the bio as truthful as it could be because the only people who know the truth are the ones who can't and the ones who no the truth won't. I found the bio very interesting and I see Priscilla as a little girl to a women that I hope will one day tell the truth and set her soul free. Keep and open mind while reading what is the truth as much as it can be told she used the name to get and keep her fame to a man she loved then hated. The sad part is we will never no Elvis's side to the story.
—Tammy Heath
