As a Star Wars fan, I wanted to like Carrie Fisher's memoir, but it was difficult to read and to finish. I skimmed the majority of the pages, especially the diary portion. Most of the book focused on her affair with Harrison Ford, which I honestly did not want to read about. The most interesting information was about her audition for the role as Princess Leia and the few aspects of information about filming. I also didn't like how she mocked some of the fan interactions in the latter part of her memoir. I know some fans might be "over the top", but they are people too. 

i went into this book not knowing much and thinking it was a book about carrie fishers time as leia, only to be disappointed when most of it revolved around her affair with harrison ford. i honestly just didn’t care about the content, and found her writing to be annoying and not something i really enjoyed as much as i hoped i would.

The inside story of a 19 year old high school drop out who lived in her famous mothers shadow as a backup singer for her shows, who suddenly gets a part in an low budget sci-fi movie that will soon blow up the screens. The book is almost bittersweet, showing how Carrie got her big break but was also told she needs to lose weight in order to become Princess Leia and falls in unrequited love. A lot of this book is about shedding light on Carrie and Harrison's affair, something that a lot of people speculated on but never got definitive answers until now. The parts of their affair, while good, took up more of the book than I had wanted; but Carrie did include a lot of her personal writing and poems she wrote of their affair and trying to find out who she really was during the filming of the movie. It is almost heartwrenching to hear in her own words how naive she was at 19 and having to learn the lessons of fame, hollywood, and love while she was so young. But the writing in her personal journals was by far my favorite part. She was an excellent writer, and those poems and journal entries put so much emotion into the words that you feel like you can connect with Carrie in a way that you hadn't felt before. 

Loved listening to the audiobook and hearing Carrie and Billie tell Carrie’s story, I would definitely recommend listening to it. It was fun and interesting to get more informative on Carrie, Princess Leia and Star Wars.

Of the Carrie Fisher books that I’ve read, I don’t think this is her strongest. It’s mostly her going on for way too long about her affair with Harrison Ford with a little bit of complaining about fans/autographs and excerpts from her diary that seem almost too poetic to be real. I think I expected more of her time during the filming of Star Wars than what we got. I recommend her other memoirs, but I don’t think I would recommend this one

I love love loved this book. Carrie Fisher is a genius and she is a solid writer. I could listen to her tell stories from her past all day :)