A review by lauryl
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy

slow-paced

2.0

The marketing on this book is way off.  This is not a fun story about millennials and a deep dive into our childhood as I was led to believe by the title, cover and millennial pink branding.   Instead, this is a memoir about one woman’s (not that interesting) life despite her proclamations many times that it’s “not a memoir!”  The author tells her story as a woman struggling in many phases of her life and the her memory/experiences that are depressing and semi-problematic through a 2020’s lens.  If the book was positioned as this one woman’s life story, I would probably have been way more into it, but I semi dreaded finishing this book because it was just such a bummer on behalf of all millennials.  On a picky/tactical note, the spoken word poems throughout the book started kind of fun but grated on me big time by the end.  This book was just not for me.