This book absolutely touched my soul. I want everyone I love to read this book.

Maybe it’s just a good period in my life to have read this, but I loved it. I didn’t agree with everything she had to say, but I didn’t feel like she needed or wanted the readers to agree and that was refreshing. I appreciated the thought provocation and her perspective. I also loved listening to the audiobook narrated by Doyle herself. It’s probably not a book for everyone, but it was definitely a good one for me!

I did not finish this book (according to my Kindle, I made it about ~45% of the way through the book - that was generous; about 20% of the way through, I started wondering why I was reading this book).

Simply put, this book came off an incredibly preachy, entitled, and disingenuous. Before Doyle wrote this book, she was described (according to Wikipedia) as "the world's most famous Christian mommy blogger, a heroine and role model.". It's only after she had already written her first two books (and made money from the subsequent signings and book tours), that she decided to be "free" and "follow her dreams", and frankly because of this, I couldn't take her seriously. I'm sure it's really easy to be "free" and "untamed", when you don't have to worry about things like "how am I going to pay rent?"

The (very brief) parts of the story that had to do with her family and her life were interesting; unfortunately more of what I read had repetitive sentences like "What women want is good. What women want is beautiful. And what women want is dangerous, but not to women. Not to the common good. What women want is a threat to the injustice of the status quote" or "Back when I thought I should make Tish’s life easy instead of allowing her to learn that she can handle life’s hard. Back when I thought there was more magic in what was pretend than what was real. Back when I believed a mother was supposed to be her daughter’s hero instead of allowing her daughter to become her own hero"; that, in combination with the fact that she only made this decision when she already had the means to be able to live with the consequences of the decision (how many women don't have the opportunity to divorce a cheating husband, because of financial - or other - reasons?), spoils this entire book for me.