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mycroftm's review
1.0
I’m not going to rate this until after I’ve discussed it with my Book Club :)
*update* I really did not like this book. While I understand that Suzy has bipolar disorder I felt that this book was written more to brag about her sexual exploits while justifying her behaviour as mental illness. I think this story could have been so much more but sadly came across as self serving.
*update* I really did not like this book. While I understand that Suzy has bipolar disorder I felt that this book was written more to brag about her sexual exploits while justifying her behaviour as mental illness. I think this story could have been so much more but sadly came across as self serving.
kdaddy's review against another edition
3.0
Crazy story. Part of the RunPacers book club. Wish it was a little less escort stories and slightly more 'I'm bi polar now what'.
manonmarieb's review
4.0
A quick, easy read that started a little slow but after I was into it, I didn't want to put it down.
jolson's review
3.0
I enjoyed it, but I'm annoyed that more of the book wasn't spent on her recovery. The part of her life where she recognizes she has bipolar disorder and begins to recover is the inspirational part, but only the epilogue tells this part. I also didn't like that she spoke as if her experience is a typical bipolar experience. The way she spoke about bipolar disorder she made it sound like everyone who has it is addicted to drugs or sex; that's not fair.
pineshorelfl's review
3.0
Very brave of her to tell her story especially when it deals with mental illness.
glaurieousrun's review
4.0
I decided to read this book due to an interview of Suzy on one of my fav podcasts, Pace the Nation (episode 62 if you're interested- https://player.fm/series/pace-the-nation/ep-62-suzy-favor-hamilton).
I had the interview in my mind as I read, and I'm glad I did. I appreciated her thoughtfulness and the discussion they had surrounding her running career and battle with mental illness.
After reading so many negative reviews, I decided to post my own. This is a memoir that has a ghostwriter so that Suzy could tell her story. It's HER story, and she doesn't owe any of us anything. She will forever battle bipolar disorder and she will forever regret the hell she put her family through. Don't shame her, it's not your place to do that. You can decide you don't like the book, that you don't like her, that you don't like the story - that is fine and I'm certainly not going to convince you otherwise. However, I do appreciate that she is choosing to share her story and I'm assuming that the process of putting her story to paper has been therapeutic. I have nothing but love for her.
I had the interview in my mind as I read, and I'm glad I did. I appreciated her thoughtfulness and the discussion they had surrounding her running career and battle with mental illness.
After reading so many negative reviews, I decided to post my own. This is a memoir that has a ghostwriter so that Suzy could tell her story. It's HER story, and she doesn't owe any of us anything. She will forever battle bipolar disorder and she will forever regret the hell she put her family through. Don't shame her, it's not your place to do that. You can decide you don't like the book, that you don't like her, that you don't like the story - that is fine and I'm certainly not going to convince you otherwise. However, I do appreciate that she is choosing to share her story and I'm assuming that the process of putting her story to paper has been therapeutic. I have nothing but love for her.
audreyboraski's review
4.0
I enjoyed Suzys openness about her entire life including a lot of details about her escorting career. A lot of other memoirs I have read, especially successful athletes, keep out some of the less than “perfect” details or their true feelings however Suzys honesty is very important for young athletes and readers to read about.
yetanothersusan's review
4.0
Regardless of why you read the book (dirt on a famous runner, history of a runner, hoping for some serious sex scenes, whatever) you have to be impressed by Ms. Hamilton's raw and open discourse about her mental illness and what she did. At plenty of points she could have ramped up the scintillation to maybe make the book more interesting. Instead, we get an honest portrait of how she felt dealing with bipolar disorder and how it almost ruined her life. And, SERIOUS kudos to her husband! I do not think I could have been as strong as him if I were in the same situation!