A review by jessmferguson
This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever by Rory Feek

1.0

I love the music and story of Joey and Rory, but this book was not good. The writing was lacking coherence and Rory did not deep dive into any aspect of his life. It was a cursory glance at ~50 years of life. I could feel that he was too ashamed of his past to really dive in and tell any details, so the book his a collection of half told stories. By the time he meets Joey and tells the story of their life together, you’re halfway though the book. Their music career together is but a paragraph in between sharing troublesome stories about how if you tithe you’ll become rich and talking about Joey wanted nothing more than to serve him as god intends. I almost gave up on listening to the book at this point, but continued on in hopes that the book would get better. Instead, The disappointment continued through the final paragraphs where he again discounts modern medicine and essentially says homeopathic medicine could’ve saved his wife because the big business of pharmaceuticals don’t have the patient’s best interest.

Wholly disappointed in every aspect.