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hinesight's review against another edition
1.0
Lord have mercy, this was a horrible attempt. Cloying, smarmy, rehashed gossip - I'm so grateful that I didn't buy this ghastly thing.
I generally have a lot of respect for writers, but this is just a crime against humanity. And factually inaccurate - I found endless mistakes that even a tiny bit of research should have caught.
Tina Cassidy, whoever she is, should be ashamed of herself.
I generally have a lot of respect for writers, but this is just a crime against humanity. And factually inaccurate - I found endless mistakes that even a tiny bit of research should have caught.
Tina Cassidy, whoever she is, should be ashamed of herself.
amandac1008's review against another edition
3.0
Beginning started out slow, the last 50 pages of the book were the best.
kellyhager's review against another edition
3.0
This is about Jackie Kennedy in 1975, the year when her life completely changed. Each chapter details an aspect of her life that year. Her second husband died, her kids were essentially grown (Caroline had graduated and John was in hgh school), she got a job in publishing and worked to preserve Grand Central Station.
Obviously, everyone has defining events in their lives, things which will mark a sort of "before" and "after." It's generally not an entire year, though. But with Jackie, it seems like everything changed over the course of this one year and she had to decide how the rest of her life was going to go. She probably didn't HAVE to work, but she chose to enter publishing. It's highly possible that part of it was because (a) her second husband had just died and (b) her children no longer required as much care as they did when they were younger and (c) you can only fill so many days with shopping and a life of leisure.
This is an interesting book but the writing style kept me at a bit of a remove. It's possible that this was done deliberately, because it seems like Jackie wasn't someone who let a lot of people inside and maybe Tina Cassidy wanted to subtly reflect that.
Even so, it's very hard not to admire someone who lived so much of her life in the public eye through no real choice of her own. Yes, she married John Kennedy but I'm not sure that anyone could adequately prepare for the amount of scrutiny and loss of privacy that became her life.
This is definitely required reading for anyone who is enamored with all things Kennedy (or all things Jackie) or for anyone who's going through their own life change.
Obviously, everyone has defining events in their lives, things which will mark a sort of "before" and "after." It's generally not an entire year, though. But with Jackie, it seems like everything changed over the course of this one year and she had to decide how the rest of her life was going to go. She probably didn't HAVE to work, but she chose to enter publishing. It's highly possible that part of it was because (a) her second husband had just died and (b) her children no longer required as much care as they did when they were younger and (c) you can only fill so many days with shopping and a life of leisure.
This is an interesting book but the writing style kept me at a bit of a remove. It's possible that this was done deliberately, because it seems like Jackie wasn't someone who let a lot of people inside and maybe Tina Cassidy wanted to subtly reflect that.
Even so, it's very hard not to admire someone who lived so much of her life in the public eye through no real choice of her own. Yes, she married John Kennedy but I'm not sure that anyone could adequately prepare for the amount of scrutiny and loss of privacy that became her life.
This is definitely required reading for anyone who is enamored with all things Kennedy (or all things Jackie) or for anyone who's going through their own life change.
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