A review by yvettepo
Didn't We Almost Have It All: The Genius, Shame, and Audacity of Whitney Houston by Gerrick Kennedy

2.0

I love a celebrity bio/memoir, and I love Whitney Houston. Having seen the 2018 documentary about her life, I knew quite a bit going in, but it was interesting to hear more about how her family groomed her and the background surrounding her success. However, this writing style just wasn’t for me. I could not get past the bad editing, unnecessarily long paragraphs, meandering timelines, inconsistencies in the writer’s own memory of her, and his assumptions about what Whitney was feeling throughout different events in her life. I could tell he loved Whitney, but it ended up being a detriment to the writing of her life in a satisfactory way