I really enjoyed this book. It made me surprisingly emotional, which is pretty rare in memoirs although I read a lot about people going through traumatic situations, but there was something about the voice in this that hit me really hard.

A lot of reviews commented negatively on the writing style, but I actually enjoyed that. It felt like an active choice Jaycee was making to tell the story the way she experienced in her own words from the time, instead of having it polished up and rewritten by a professional. For me, this choice really worked within the storytelling. I think had it been completely ghostwritten it would have been just another memoir, but I enjoyed it so much.

I did think it felt an awful lot like a first draft, not all of the storytelling was well thought out, random journal entries were thrown in, and there were inconsistencies with little things like brackets vs footnotes. I don't necessarily dislike this because it did give the book a much more raw and immediate feeling, although I did think some of the overall storytelling could have used a solid revision. But all in all, really loved this book and would highly recommend.