thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an arc!!!

this book was very unique in its accessibility to both Joan Crawford fans and those who just want to learn more about her. I think it is a decent addition to the canon of Crawford biographies. I am not a huge Crawford fan specifically, but I do love old Hollywood and so I know a bit about her from that, and this was a solid read for me. It had a lot of good information that I found interesting. I couldn't quite figure out how I felt about the whole "imagining what movies Crawford would have been in if she were alive today" though. There were definitely aspects of the writing that screamed millennial cringe, which is a criticism I've had for a lot of my reads lately. My only other criticism was that it was occasionally difficult to tell if the author was quoting someone or not, but hopefully that was just in the ARC and will not be present in the finished book.