Bill

I haven’t watched any professional wrasslin in probably 20-25 years so I missed Becky’s actual rise through the sport and her eventual championships. I was basically completely unfamiliar with any of her characters but that didn’t diminish my enjoyment of this book at all. I’d heard from a friend who still watches that this was a good read and she was 100% right.

This book chronicles her early life up to her eventual mega success around the COVID era and then touches on a few things after that too. It’s a great read, very compelling, and she lets you know, pretty much without a filter, what she was thinking at every point along the way. And she’s hilarious! This book is a scream at many points and hearing her (I listened to her narrate her own audiobook) tell you the tales herself makes it all the better. There’s plenty of drama and sadness too, all the ups ands downs of her life, and she tells it with such an earnestness that you, the listener, can feel her every high and low as she relates them in the book.

I think this would interest non-wrestling fans, too. A great listen, 4.5/5.

The full Lord John books have all been good, but this one is the best of them. A compelling mystery that kept surprising me, both John and Jamie are in it, and an ending that is a bit long but wraps up a lot of plot threads quite nicely.

The only problem is, now I want another one!