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I would like to preface this review by stating that I read this for a book club; I never would have picked up this book otherwise. Now, back to the regularly scheduled program:
Melania is a memoir about our current First Lady that I hoped would get into detail about her origins and life in general. After all, we may know a lot about Donald Trump, much of it negative, but we know next to nothing about Melania. Honestly, I was deeply disappointed, as I feel like almost the entire book was meaningless fluff written to make the reader sympathetic to her and Donald. There is a very short list of the interesting things I learned: Melania was interested in studying architecture before she pursued modeling, she started her vendetta against social media because of her kid, and she has some views that oppose her husband's (although he never seems to listen to her smh).
I found the tone of the writing to be too fake and pretentious. I can just envision her spewing at her ghost-writer and the ghost-writer needing to make it sound acceptable without getting sued. There was no self-reflection in her narrative - she never admits to any faults or regrets, instead handing the blame to the press or her team. There was also an entire page on the wallpaper in the White House, and for some reason that infuriated me... why are we talking about this when you skipped over entire events like Trump's sexual assault charges or tax evasion?
Overall, this is a book I would go out of my way to dissuade anyone from reading. Although it was very short, I feel like I wasted my time. I genuinely think I would have gained more from laying in bed contemplating my existence than I did from reading this memoir.
Melania is a memoir about our current First Lady that I hoped would get into detail about her origins and life in general. After all, we may know a lot about Donald Trump, much of it negative, but we know next to nothing about Melania. Honestly, I was deeply disappointed, as I feel like almost the entire book was meaningless fluff written to make the reader sympathetic to her and Donald. There is a very short list of the interesting things I learned: Melania was interested in studying architecture before she pursued modeling, she started her vendetta against social media because of her kid, and she has some views that oppose her husband's (although he never seems to listen to her smh).
I found the tone of the writing to be too fake and pretentious. I can just envision her spewing at her ghost-writer and the ghost-writer needing to make it sound acceptable without getting sued. There was no self-reflection in her narrative - she never admits to any faults or regrets, instead handing the blame to the press or her team. There was also an entire page on the wallpaper in the White House, and for some reason that infuriated me... why are we talking about this when you skipped over entire events like Trump's sexual assault charges or tax evasion?
Overall, this is a book I would go out of my way to dissuade anyone from reading. Although it was very short, I feel like I wasted my time. I genuinely think I would have gained more from laying in bed contemplating my existence than I did from reading this memoir.