I was in the middle of reading another book when I finally picked this up. I’ve been wanting to read it for so long that I decided to tease it; maybe read a chapter. Then instead proceeded to plow through it in two days.

I don’t even know what to tell you, It lives up to all of its hype. I was enraptured by every last detail and I couldn’t put it down.

These characters stories should be so un-relatable because of the circumstances of their celebrity and privilege, yet I related to them anyway, because of how fully realized they are. They show you that the messiness of life doesn’t escape you just because you may be wealthy (although it helps). Money and power doesn’t ensure your happiness, but your choices, how you treat the ones you love and how you treat yourself do. What you choose to prioritize can be so integral to how fulfilling your life is. What your regrets look like someday mite be based on the things you are willing to sacrifice in the present.

The lead in this book is so frighteningly human, there were times I really wanted to chew her out and times I desperately wanted to reach into this book and hug her. But one critical point is, real life choices can be even harder for people in the public eye; How often we forget that celebrities are real people subject to the same structure as exotic animals in a zoo; privacy being the one luxury they cannot afford.

I already know i am going to think of this book and it’s lessons all the time and the little idiosyncratic moments between characters that make them so damn memorable:

“And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don’t chip your tooth” (If you know, you know, if not be ready with a box of tissues, She’s a tear-jerker