A review by justinlife
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

3.75

This book manages the difficult feat of being both ahead of its time and firmly rooted in the time it was published. bell hooks does a great job starting a conversation about love and I think its influences are currently seen throughout society. While some of the paths she takes to come to the conclusions she makes are difficult to read and her strawman arguments flawed, the end point was still powerful and worth considering. The paths was unnecessary to say what she needed to say. This is most noticeable in the greed chapter. There's a lot of great points and she does a fantastic job relaying her ideas, but the way she chooses to defend her ideas are frustrating and at times, insulting.  

If you are someone who is in a male/female relationship and/or seeking one, I think you'd get a lot out of it, particularly the last half. When she discusses romantic relationships, I didn't feel there was space for queer relationships, but rather focusing on the male/female dynamic. I felt the lack of inclusive (and frankly some of her advice) to be disappointing.