3.5 stars? Idk.

If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.

Look, I love Carrie Fisher. She was real and flawed and awesome, and yes, she brought Princess Leia Organa to iconic life. Her story is an interesting one, but I might look for another version told by a biographer — I just didn’t feel like I got a very good sense of who she was during the times covered in this book. It seemed like 60-75% was devoted to the affair with Harrison Ford and her feelings about it, which are of course important and quite possibly life-defining for her, but for me as a reader it was a bit much, as were the poems she wrote about it.

And honestly, I was mildly disappointed that her iconic line (“I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra”) made no appearance, though she does mention Wishful Drinking, which is where Google tells me the quote originates, and contemplate the legacy she would leave behind after her death.