I’ve low key always wanted to read this book because of the cover. I love how eye catching the cover and titles of the chapters are. They’re all incredibly deceptive in a really great way. The titles [and cover] hook you in to read about serious subject matters, written in a way for millennials and gen z (at least the older part of gen z) to understand.

Throughout the book, Montell uses analogies to perfectly explain psychological/mental health concepts (maybe concepts isn’t the right word but you know…). The connection she makes between staying in a toxic relationship and being in a cult blew my mind, especially since they share the commonality of love-bombing. I never would’ve made the connection prior to reading this book. Throughout this specific chapter, she also used a hiking analogy that made everything make sense.

With the book being just over 200 pages, the book was perfectly paced without ever reaching a point of being boring. I think this is in part due to the way she utilized pop culture and everything with the pandemic to connect what we are experiencing psychologically and some of the things that make up our personalities.

Also, I’m not sure if this makes me horrible, but reading about the beauty influencers with terminal illnesses resolidified the desire to keep vlogging so my future family (and even current family) can look back on some memories/who I am.