queendbw's review
4.0
I have decided to read more non-fiction books this year and I’ve found that biographies and memoirs are most interesting to me. This is the third so far.
I really did not know much about Tiffany before reading this (she narrates the audiobook and I do recommend!) and now I want to know her personally.
She has overcome so many hardships in life and still manages to have such an aura of positivity! She has experienced child abuse, abandonment, foster care, illiteracy, and domestic violence and that isn’t all. Through all this she keeps growing and keeps loving.
The essays are all open and honest and hearing her get emotional while reading made them feel even more genuine. I already knew that she was funny, but she is also all heart! I give it 4/5.
#readsof2023 #audiobookreader #literacy #readingisfundamental
Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Sexual harassment
jessicaboi's review
5.0
Moderate: Abandonment and Domestic abuse
twas's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Excrement, Child abuse, and Physical abuse
essie__reads's review
1.0
Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Abortion, Body shaming, Car accident, Cursing, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual content
max_vampire's review
4.25
Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Car accident, Classism, Cursing, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism
Moderate: Ableism
marchbabyy_08's review against another edition
4.0
A lot of people are criticizing how she makes the heavy parts of her story "too lighthearted." At the end of the day. she's not telling someone else's life story, she's telling hers . She's a comedian and said repeatedly throughout the book that comedy is what got her through many dark times, so it only makes sense that she would tell these stories in a somewhat humorous tone.
Graphic: Abortion, Abandonment, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
sarahlk's review against another edition
2.0
With that said I really didn't like how this book was written, it somewhat felt like it didn't know what to be a comedy or a serious telling about her life. You can tell (especially in the audiobook) that she is trying to be funny, and she kinda states it when she gets serious, but to me this book wasn't funny at all.
I also tought some parts was really confusing beacouse she jumped so much in the story, back and forth again and again. I can somewhat see what she was trying to do with seperating everything to people but when she has a chapter for her mother, grandmother, stepfather and her groving up, it gets too much.
I also really didn't like how excesive the word B***H was used as a degrading think towards women, every woman that isn't her friend is a B. She also had a very problematic chapter about a disabled man where she mimicked his voice (probably to be funny).
All this just didn't sit right with me, so i have to give it a low rating although she had an incredible story.
Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Abortion, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Sexism
madisonfrank's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Abortion, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence