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snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Body horror, Death, and Alcohol
beversae's review
3.0
I really liked the thriller / mysterious part of the book, I had to remind myself that this was a memoir and not fiction. While I understand why the author would flash forward to the "present" day, it wasn't for me. Some of them didn't make sense to me and I was confused about their relevance.
xexemang's review against another edition
it just wasn’t for me tbh. i didn’t really like it and knew i wouldn’t get into it.
paperbacksandpines's review against another edition
2.0
You All Grow Up and Leave Me is a dual genre book. Part coming of age memoir and part true crime, it tells the story of Piper Weiss's adolescence, interwoven with her experiences with her tennis coach, Gary Wilensky.
To be honest, I had no interest in Piper's memoirs. Reading about a privileged girl from NYC who grew up attending an all girls boarding school doesn't hold my interest. I just wanted to learn about Gary Wilensky and his story. Wilensky had been grooming his favorite girls for years, but thankfully, he didn't have a chance to do more harm before he was stopped. Weiss had a strange fascination with wanting to be one of his chosen girls, which weirded me out. I really could not wrap my head around this desire and this made it hard for me to empathize with her.
This book was okay but not great. Since it wasn't written by an investigative reporter, but rather a freelance editor and writer, I'm wondering if Wilensky's story could have been further fleshed out by someone in the vein of Ann Rule or Greg Olsen. In the hands of someone more capable, it would have been better without the memoir and with Gary's life more fleshed out.
To be honest, I had no interest in Piper's memoirs. Reading about a privileged girl from NYC who grew up attending an all girls boarding school doesn't hold my interest. I just wanted to learn about Gary Wilensky and his story. Wilensky had been grooming his favorite girls for years, but thankfully, he didn't have a chance to do more harm before he was stopped. Weiss had a strange fascination with wanting to be one of his chosen girls, which weirded me out. I really could not wrap my head around this desire and this made it hard for me to empathize with her.
This book was okay but not great. Since it wasn't written by an investigative reporter, but rather a freelance editor and writer, I'm wondering if Wilensky's story could have been further fleshed out by someone in the vein of Ann Rule or Greg Olsen. In the hands of someone more capable, it would have been better without the memoir and with Gary's life more fleshed out.
dianametzger's review against another edition
4.0
A slow burn book with an ending that pays off any meandering.