WOW! I was not expecting Jennette to be so straightforward while adding humor in her memoir. The audiobook gave it an even extra rawness to the hardships she has had to face at such early age. So much respect goes out to her to tell others that she was given hush money from Nickelodeon to prevent her from saying the truth, and basically putting herself in an uncomfortable position more prone to judgment by the media. With every chapter I felt more and more terrified of the abnormal habits she had growing up because her mom was obsessed with keeping her from becoming independent, I mean the examples were explicit and though for her might've been regular she grows up and grows out of that toxic cycle she was brought into.
Jennette put everything on the table and did not care to hurt anyone's feelings in this book, she simply is fed up and needed to speak the truth that many young actors have held back from doing years later out of fear of getting judged, but Jennette said enough. I tried looking for a way to make the pace of her speech slow down but there was none, maybe it was due to the platform I used to listen to the book but I couldn't find any and I found myself going back multiple times but the humor was present at all times and the sarcasm didn't fail either. I can't imagine how hard it must be to realize years later that you were manipulated by your own mother because you really don't expect that from the person that birthed you, let alone expect that person to cause long-lasting trauma.
Rating: 4
Author: Jennette McCurdy
Genre: Memoir
Format: Audiobook
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