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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
fast-paced
This diva gets it. So well written and really changed my view on the ways the internet can be used to shift.
emotional
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reflective
medium-paced
EDIT: Wow, the book price has been raised to $65 not including shipping, so I’m priced out of this book.
However, having read most of the author’s online publications so far, I’m going to leave my review and rating as is. I’ve had a look through online reviews and it does appear that whole chapters of the book are entirely recycled content, so I’m confident that I’ve read enough of this to retain my original review.
Until I can find a more affordable copy and read more for myself, my original review is as follows:
You can read an excerpt for a donation to charity on iamcarolinecalloway.com, though I doubt this book will ever actually be self-published at this point! (If it does, I'll update my review.) But if the excerpt reveals anything about the book, it's that it's confusing and choppy, filled with grammatical errors and misspellings, as well as overly gratuitous adjectives and metaphors. She rips her entire voice from other popular memoirists; I'd just finished Cat Marnell's How To Murder Your Life and the tone and exclamations in the excerpt were hollow echoes of Marnell. Skip this one, it won't add anything to the current conversation around this particular influencer.
However, having read most of the author’s online publications so far, I’m going to leave my review and rating as is. I’ve had a look through online reviews and it does appear that whole chapters of the book are entirely recycled content, so I’m confident that I’ve read enough of this to retain my original review.
Until I can find a more affordable copy and read more for myself, my original review is as follows:
You can read an excerpt for a donation to charity on iamcarolinecalloway.com, though I doubt this book will ever actually be self-published at this point! (If it does, I'll update my review.) But if the excerpt reveals anything about the book, it's that it's confusing and choppy, filled with grammatical errors and misspellings, as well as overly gratuitous adjectives and metaphors. She rips her entire voice from other popular memoirists; I'd just finished Cat Marnell's How To Murder Your Life and the tone and exclamations in the excerpt were hollow echoes of Marnell. Skip this one, it won't add anything to the current conversation around this particular influencer.
Watch the interviews with the author. Not only does she say pretty much everything this book says, but she also does it in the most long-winded way possible, which is also how this book goes. The fact that her GOAL was to be a memoirist, when a memoir is typically written after someone has led an actually interesting life, just sums up how self-absorbed the author is and how interesting she finds herself, like she's inherently worthy of multiple memoirs - I'm super curious if she's deluded herself into believing it or is just leaning hard into 'fake it til you make it'. D'Angelo Wallace on YouTube did a great commentary video on Caroline and what he appropriately calls a "never ending scam" and honestly he just drops straight facts all the way through.
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Suicide
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I loved it I’m so sorry !!! Worth the 5 month wait and suspecting I may have been scammed by a book called Scammer.
I think it kind of fell off a bit at the end, but the first half or so had me laughing but really touched. While I think Caroline is a very different person from me, some of the more poignant parts hit super close to home.
Could it have used a better editor? Absolutely! Was there a lot in there that felt like it was only there for shock value? Of course! But what else would you expect from our girl CC??
Trigger warnings upon trigger warnings !!!!
I think it kind of fell off a bit at the end, but the first half or so had me laughing but really touched. While I think Caroline is a very different person from me, some of the more poignant parts hit super close to home.
Could it have used a better editor? Absolutely! Was there a lot in there that felt like it was only there for shock value? Of course! But what else would you expect from our girl CC??
Trigger warnings upon trigger warnings !!!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Toxic friendship
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Anybody who didn't enjoy this probably shouldn't have bought it. Considering it's a book you have to go out of your way to acquire, and can't just bump into in a bookstore— seems like a lot of effort for a hater. Regardless, thank you for giving CC your money and making her self-published memoir possible. Without your free promo, I may never have gotten to buy this on sale from her website, receiving it in less than a month with stickers, bookmarks, and a signed title page... what a scam, right?!
This book is everything I had hoped for and expected after following famed internet "scammer" Caroline Calloway for six years, and yet it still somehow exceeded expectations. It's raw, messy, completely unhinged, and always real, emotional, poignant, and apologetic— she takes full accountability for her past wrong doings, and instills hope for the future.
The fact is, Caroline Calloway is NOT a Scammer, but she is a phenomenal writer who is only going to get better. You're missing out if you don't give it a chance. But by all means, keep hating and sending those Google search numbers sky-rocketing. There's no such thing as bad press!
This book is everything I had hoped for and expected after following famed internet "scammer" Caroline Calloway for six years, and yet it still somehow exceeded expectations. It's raw, messy, completely unhinged, and always real, emotional, poignant, and apologetic— she takes full accountability for her past wrong doings, and instills hope for the future.
The fact is, Caroline Calloway is NOT a Scammer, but she is a phenomenal writer who is only going to get better. You're missing out if you don't give it a chance. But by all means, keep hating and sending those Google search numbers sky-rocketing. There's no such thing as bad press!
If you’ve followed Caroline over the years with a can’t-look-away guilty pleasure interest in the untold stories and secrets alluded to and the timeline threaded behind it all, this book is fun. If you’re a hater, it’s not.