Reviews

Born to Fly by Sara Evans, Cindy Coloma

mldavisreads's review

hopeful informative

3.5

Adult nonfiction memoir.  I love Sara Evans' music so as soon as I saw her memoir, I put it on hold at the library.  This was an interesting look into how she became the country star she's known for.  It is not a linear biography, but does have plenty of info about her childhood, starting off in Nashville, and life with her husband and their blended family of 7 kids.  (She is noticeably short on details about her ill-fated first marriage, other than she was on the road a lot and usually took the kids with her.  Her first husband does not seem to play much of a role in the lives of their three children).  The book was conversational in tone and a fairly quick read.  Some of her off-handed comments rubbed me the wrong way, but I 100% agree with her on pregnancy-- it's a rough time when there is outward pressure to be overjoyed when you are not in control of how you look or feel physically.  It was interesting to see behind the scenes of the music industry-- what goes into a single being played on the radio for example, and also hear the backstory behind some of her hit songs.  This book really made me want to crank up some 90s/ early 2000s country music and listen to some of the powerful country women I grew up listening to.  

bookreadercoffeedrinker's review

2.0

I wanted to like this book, I truly did.

However, the book and Sara Evans just came off SO judgmental.

I think this is my lowest rated book so far this year, UGH.