I definitely went into this one purely out of curiosity and with already low expectations... I'm not gonna go too hard, despite the low rating I'm giving it because I understand that she was around seventeen when she was writing this and it makes sense when you read her writing and realize how... juvenile it is. Nowadays, she seems to be far more articulate when expressing herself and her way of thinking seems to have matured, obviously she has grown since.

About the book itself, however, it was very boring and entirely redudant. As I said: juvenile, almost childish in its worldview. I don't see how much of this is "eye-opening", all of this is very basic Disney-like moral-of-the-story; it's just accounts from her personal live mixed with accidental self-flattering in a weak attempt to be an inspiring self-help book that we've seen a million times over not just in literature but films and series and everything media, it's entirely empty and devoid of real substance. In my opinion, the most interesting part about this were the details and the specificities that Jenna shared about her private life, not the generic "Be yourself", "Don't overthink", "You write your own story", "Family is everything" and whatever boy problems, etc., I mean the genuine aspects of her life and talks about events that she doesn't really mention so much publicly.

We know she wrote this before she even became a legal adult and now she's turning twenty one this year, so change happened, but reading this still gave me some sort of whiplash as I felt like I was looking at an entirely different Jenna from the one I'd known all this time. I wonder how she herself would look back on this now that time has passed.

She and I entirely differently and that is why I cannot relate to her in the slightest bit, thus provoking the tiniest aversion to her reading and way of thought, probably why this book did nothing for me at all... specially her politics and ways of "activism" (I have no doubt she has done a lot of good with the best of intentions and that she has truly done work out of the goodness of her heart, but with celebrities a lot can feel performative and we're in dire times of a more radical radicalization... I'm also writing this at a time where one of her costars has been exposed for many grave issues pertaining women and racial minorities and yet 🤐) Regardless of all of this, she's good at what she does--acting, and I'll continue supporting her work.