I’m not one for memoirs, but this I could barely put down. Walls’ delivers short, brutal chapters that compel you to carry on. It’s hard to tell what’s more breathtaking — her writing or the fact that the events are not conjured from imagination, but her loved experience. Truly recommend to anyone.

This is one of those books that changes how you see other people. Makes you think twice before casting judgment. This is the kind of book we need more of. Honest, vulnerable, and told not with one ounce of self pity, and every bit determination, tenacity and even pride.

Honestly I’d turned my nose up at romance for so many years and finally decided to be open minded and read this rec from my romance-loving friend and WOW I loved it. I laughed out loud, I cried, I was utterly swept into the whirlwind in this book. Definitely recommend.

Brutal, honest and beautiful

I was so excited to read this book and it was more ethereal than I was hoping. There is about a 6-7 page stretch where Kandinsky really lays out his color theory (which is why I read the book) and the rest is really high level philosophizing that oscillates between tidbits of brilliance and purple prose of pure nothing.

I love these stories. I find I can hardly put them down and I breeze through these books so quick. They’re smart, engaging, entertaining and still somehow easy to follow. Once you read the original, you realize no rendition of Sherlock Holmes has quite done the character justice in its complexity and originality.