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A review by benmsmith
Didn't We Almost Have It All: The Genius, Shame, and Audacity of Whitney Houston by Gerrick Kennedy
4.0
Thanks to NetGalley and Abrams Press for an ARC of this title.
If you're coming to this book looking for a standard beginning-to-end biography, you're not going to find it here, and that's honestly for the best. This does a masterful job at looking at Whitney Houston's life and career through many different lenses - it's not quite as poetic as Hanif Abdurraqib's work in writing about music and performance, but there's a similar love of the topic that makes this shine throughout.
If you're coming to this book looking for a standard beginning-to-end biography, you're not going to find it here, and that's honestly for the best. This does a masterful job at looking at Whitney Houston's life and career through many different lenses - it's not quite as poetic as Hanif Abdurraqib's work in writing about music and performance, but there's a similar love of the topic that makes this shine throughout.