alicjasinah's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
sad
fast-paced
3.5
idratherread_'s review against another edition
3.0
Not exactly deep, life-changing musings about love and relationships, but a light and funny read for when you don't want to challenge yourself too much and just chill. Alderton tells some hilarious anecdotes about her love life and her (not very successful) relationships, but I especially enjoyed how she writes about her female friendships, which, in my opinion, turn out to be the healthiest, longest and ultimately true love(s) in her life.
perksofbeingdiana's review against another edition
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
caitann's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Oh I loved this so much!! A memoir with all the fully-charged warmth and sparkle and charm of Bridget Jones. Dolly’s stories filled me with such an inexplicable rush of affection for life, even for the messy chaos and heartbreak of it all, so much so that I was alternately either laughing out loud or longing for a physical copy that I could hug to my chest while listening.
As someone who just turned 30 (“just” lol let me have this) she captured the existential dread of this milestone in every sense - the obsessive nostalgia of looking back on your 20s, the memorialization of the passage of time, the inescapable feeling of closing doors, the feeling of replacement as the attention of the world shifts from the millennials to gen Z. Which you’d think you’d once roll your eyes at but IT’S A THING I PROMISE. She puts everything I didn’t know I was feeling into words but doesn’t abandon you in that dread, but rather meets you there, and then succinctly lifts you out of it with a lovely revelation of comfort, hope, and peace about all of it.
You just can’t help but feel entirely loved while reading this. And also maybe a little less alone 🥰