Chelsea

This book was a fun read. There were somethings in the book that I recognized like the name of the park Wonderland and Tiny Tims donuts but it never truly clicked until the authors note. Anyway, I enjoyed the ride!

3.5 stars. This book was hard to get into. It was a pretty slow beginning but picked up a bit around the halfway mark. Overall, the writing was beautiful and the storytelling was compelling. I just couldn't get over how slow paced it was.

2.5 stars for me. Honestly, it was fine I didn't hate it but I found it weird and annoying that Cora and Georgia's chapters were first person pov, while Paige was third person. Like why would you do that?????

I don't really like giving memoirs star ratings because who am I to judge someone else's life story. Although, I didn't love the writing, Britney has clearly been through a lot in her life and deserves all the happiness and success she can get. So 4 stars.

Yassss Paris!! This book was so beyond that I now talk like Paris Hilton. PS highly recommend the audiobook.

All I could think of the entire time reading this book was of Brad Pitt yelling at Morgan Freeman “WHAT'S IN THE BOX!!!”. And that's it, that's my review!!!

This was definitely an important book about trauma and its impacts on our individual and social health. These topics of trauma are often not discussed enough. However, this book was so overwhelming with information about the deep and dark effects of trauma (addictions, homelessness, disease, etc). It felt as if we are doing everything wrong and nothing right that it left me with a lot of hopelessness. It was a very long book and it felt like it dumped all of this trauma on the reader with not a lot of solutions to actively solve the problem. Although it was very well researched and clearly the author knows what they are talking about, it left me feeling helpless knowing that there is all this trauma and not a lot of answers to how to change it.

This was a hard NO from me!!!

I started reading this book a month ago and DNFed it. But I continued to see rave reviews so I picked it up again because maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance. I have now finished it and am confused at all the 4 and 5 star reviews. Did I read the same book as everyone else??

The writing was fine, it was engaging enough that I was able to finish it despite not liking it.

The thing that annoyed me the most about Malibu Rising was the characters. This was very much a character driven story and I just found it difficult to relate to or like any of the main characters. Maybe it was because I was distracted by all of the other unimportant side characters and storylines that I just didn't understand the point of. Why should I care about some Hollywood producer and cocktail waitress? There were way too many characters and I just couldn't keep track of all of their story lines.

Clearly I'm in the minority, but this one just missed the mark for me. I much preferred Daisy Jones and the Six and the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

This was a DNF for me!!! And I don't often DNF but I just couldn't with this one. What did people see in this book??? Because I'm lost!! I think fanfic is just not for me!!