American Rose

Won through Goodreads.

Well, my phone ate my review, so let's try again.

I didn't really care for this. I really enjoyed Abbott's first book, so I had high hopes. I didn't connect with the story or any of the people. Everyone was awful and I'm not really sure why I should care about any of them; sometimes those people can still be interesting, but I did not feel that was the case here. The jumping time periods and people just added to the confusion. I want to read a straightforward biography again; so many seem to be written disjointed lately. I didn't hate this book, I just didn't enjoy it. It's probably good I know next to nothing about Gypsy and have never seen the musical, judging from other people's reviews.

I wasn't a fan of the structure of this book and I'm not sure if it's just that it didn't translate well to audio but the back and forth in the timeline was confusing. In the end the back and forth made it so that any time I started to get into any part of the story it would jump to another point in the timeline so I never really got into it.