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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
The information was very repetitive. I went in blind and wasn't expecting a quasi self help book.
Interesting, but a bit repetitive (maybe meant for YA??) in it’s writing. Would have loved pictures as well. Overall a great introduction to Frida!
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
I enjoyed this book, which is a mix of art history about Frida Kahlo and self-help based on Frida’s life. If you’re interested in learning more about Kahlo, this is a great way to dive in.
I picked this up on a whim...unfortunately, I should not have judged a book by its cover. Overall, my biggest problem is that it's shallow and awfully repetitive. It's not just the same information but the same explanations, even the same lines. Why use "and, ummm..." to refer to body parts in a book about Frida and "living boldly" once? But it's repeated at least twice. I think the book had potential. It needs depth and an editor willing to tell the author "you said that already"
I really tried to like this one. But I'm on page 130 and the redundancy of it all is getting to me. The book just reads like a high school essay trying to reach the minimum word count.
I love the idea of this book, but even the "self-help" tips were cringy.
I also wanted more visuals. I spent half of the time reading this book, looking up her paintings.
I love the idea of this book, but even the "self-help" tips were cringy.
I also wanted more visuals. I spent half of the time reading this book, looking up her paintings.
Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for a honest review.
Some of the reviews for this book are confusing, the author mentions very early on that this is not meant to be a biography but rather an opportunity for us to learn lessons from Frida’s life experiences. Each chapter explores how Frida approached different things in life, from confidence to pain to love to sex to identity. The love the author has for Frida bleeds into every page, the admiration and respect with which the author writes about Frida was a big reason why I liked this book. I feel like I know so much about Frida and have so much more love for her after having read this.
Only thing I didn’t like was the amount of unnecessary repetition, I feel like 10-15% of the book wouldn't have existed without it. But overall, really enjoyed this!
Some of the reviews for this book are confusing, the author mentions very early on that this is not meant to be a biography but rather an opportunity for us to learn lessons from Frida’s life experiences. Each chapter explores how Frida approached different things in life, from confidence to pain to love to sex to identity. The love the author has for Frida bleeds into every page, the admiration and respect with which the author writes about Frida was a big reason why I liked this book. I feel like I know so much about Frida and have so much more love for her after having read this.
Only thing I didn’t like was the amount of unnecessary repetition, I feel like 10-15% of the book wouldn't have existed without it. But overall, really enjoyed this!
Definitely a fun little book and I loved the little end caps on the chapters. With little fun facts and applicable tips that I think fell really well in line with Freida’s lifestyle. I don’t think this is really a book you read through all in one sitting, because it doesn’t get a little repetitive with the anecdotes. I think it’s perfect if you read a chapter or two of whatever you need in the moment!
As a lover of Frida myself, I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, this book was not my cup of tea. I found it to be bland and devoid of the life that Frida herself infused into everything she did. I had gone into reading this book thinking it would a guide that used Frida's wisdom and applied it to daily life. I instead got an interpretive biography, and that's a big difference.
I probably would not have picked up the book had I realized that the way it was marketed wasn't anything like what was inside the book. This book does not make good on what the synopsis or the cover promises which is a guide to living boldly like Frida. This is a fairly dry biography with some commentary thrown in.
I had a Kindle edition of this book, and the formatting was so bad that there were times I debated just not finishing the book because the formatting was so distracting: artwork cut in half and split between pages (The one-piece not cut in half is 95% of the way through the book), and columns that should've been sidebars were not reformatted for kindle layout.
At times, the fact that this book was written and rushed to the presses within the last seven months. It feels unrefined in parts, and the section breakdowns don't always work well. It feels like it should have had a round (or another round) of beta readers on a platform such as NetGalley where I received my copy, and then had another round of revisions based on that feedback.
It was not a terrible book, but it was not what it was marketed as either.
I probably would not have picked up the book had I realized that the way it was marketed wasn't anything like what was inside the book. This book does not make good on what the synopsis or the cover promises which is a guide to living boldly like Frida. This is a fairly dry biography with some commentary thrown in.
I had a Kindle edition of this book, and the formatting was so bad that there were times I debated just not finishing the book because the formatting was so distracting: artwork cut in half and split between pages (The one-piece not cut in half is 95% of the way through the book), and columns that should've been sidebars were not reformatted for kindle layout.
At times, the fact that this book was written and rushed to the presses within the last seven months. It feels unrefined in parts, and the section breakdowns don't always work well. It feels like it should have had a round (or another round) of beta readers on a platform such as NetGalley where I received my copy, and then had another round of revisions based on that feedback.
It was not a terrible book, but it was not what it was marketed as either.