Reviews - I'm Glad my Mom Died

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I'm Glad my Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

4.5 AVERAGE

ejones8346's review against another edition

5.0

Wow. Such a moving story. Much respect for Jennette.

clioclio's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny sad

leongggsy's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

thebooknivore's review against another edition

4.0

Okay, I’ve been sitting on trying to figure out my rating for this for awhile. I think I’m landing on a 4.5 for this in the end. While I didn’t fall head over heels for it, I also obviously did because I was watching interviews with Jennette McCurdy after I finished it obsessively.

I was of the age where I watched Miranda Cosgrove in Drake & Josh so of course I pushed into watching iCarly with Jennette in it. I really enjoyed iCarly when I watched it and I liked Victorious but never watched Sam & Cat. It’s hard to think about how miserable someone is when they’re doing something so well and seemingly happy. Or just to see what they were doing to their bodies throughout this time as well. It’s so hard to think about.

I’m proud of Jennette for being able to write something like this and really talk about her experiences with her mom and her family and her experiences with Nickelodeon and being a child actress when she really didn’t want to become a child actress. But also being able to talk about her eating disorders and everything. It takes some balls to be able to talk about all of this.

I think this was a really great memoir. I really enjoyed listening to it and hear her narrate it herself. I recommend. But I would also really highly recommend people look at trigger warnings first for sure.