I didn't know that much about Sinead O'Connor, apart from her hits and some gossip stories about her in the past 15 years. After hearing about her passing, I saw some parts of interviews with her and they made me more curious about her. When I heard about this memoir, I thought this was the perfect time to read it along with listening to her music.

It's crazy to imagine everything that happened in her life. She was an incredibly strong woman, with a strong will and not shy in knowing what she wants.

The first half of the book I thought was the best. She tells more stories and goes more into her childhood and how her first album came together. Incredibly interesting to read and also intense to read about how traumatising her childhood was. The second half of the book felt a little thrown together. There's a lot of summaries of all her songs and what they're about, and less stories about her career and life. Where the first half was easier to follow in the timeline, I lost the timeline more towards the end.

She does explain that a large part isn't talked about due to her mental health and that's totally valid. She still covers some of the biggest events in her career/life, like the Pope incident, Prince incident and her mental breakdown involving Dr. Phil. I wasn't even born yet during the Pope incident, so reading it from a future perspective makes you look different at the reason why and how the world reacted to it. Also something that struck me was the inspiration of Rastafari in her life and music.

It was a good memoir to see from Sinead's eyes and hear her interpretation of her life. I always take memoirs with a grain of salt, because people experience everything differently and often some lies pop up in the end. Sinead for example denies a story that Anthony Kiedis told in his memoir about her. We'll never know what happened, but it shows that people will still try to make their story look more excited than it really is sometimes.