Jennette McCurdy’s memoir is written beautifully. I love how she writes from her point of view because you can really understand why Jennette acted the way she did and how she was manipulated. Often, when manipulation is told from an outside perspective it tends to look shallow, and as if the other person could have easily not been manipulated had they been smart enough. But because she wrote this all from her point of view, you can see how the way she was raised, and basically isolated, contributed to her inability to truly think and act for herself for so long. 

Throughout the book, and her life, Jennette struggled with various eating disorders, and she shows the truth about them. She doesn’t sugarcoat the feelings or the effects that it had on her body. And, she didn’t sugarcoat the difficulties of recovery. I love how she shows the full ins and outs of her life because often Hollywood and mainstream media gloss over them. A character has an eating disorder one season, and the next they can happily eat a full meal without a second thought. But Jennette shows that it’s an ongoing struggle day in and day out for years down the line. A quote that stuck out to me was one that her second therapist had said to her, it was 

This quote could help so many people in recovery, and I love that she included it. She went on to reference it later in the book through her recovery, admitting her slips and the motivation she had to not allow them to become slides.
 
Each time you see the family interact you become entranced by the family dynamic, or lack thereof, that there is. You see how Jennette and her mother's relationship was able to become what it did, and you ask yourself how people allowed it to go on for so long. She had two older brothers, who in the memoir, seem as though they did nothing o stop it. At times you even forget that she has any siblings at all
 
Overall I would rate the book a 5/5 and recommend this book to anyone who is able to handle hard topics. Whether or not memoirs are your ideal book to read, this book will most likely make the top of your list. it deserves all of the hype it is receiving and more.