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✨4.5 Stars✨

If loving this just as much as The Great Gatsby is wrong, I don’t want to be right. A haunting, poetic train wreck I couldn’t look away from. Fitzgerald’s 1921 describes 2026 life too well.

Informative and illuminating exploration of how the modern medical system was designed by men, for men, and women’s bodies have long been viewed as “hormonal” and “hysterical” aberrations of the “ideal” male body.

Unnecessarily long-winded at points, but overall an important and eye-opening read.

3.5 Stars.

I wanted to love this but instead only liked it. Her story is inherently compelling, but I felt Gutierrez was too young to write a memoir. The book felt like a checked box on her path to a political career, rather than a thoughtful, introspective story examining larger issues at play. I enjoyed reading parts of it, but overall felt it lacked vulnerability and substance.

12/5 stars - grief, loss, chosen family, and new beginning depicted in a wholly new yet piercingly familiar light. Hilarious, sob-inducing, and flawless.