jaw77 's review for:

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
2.0

You guys, I thought this book had a false intimacy in which Rachel Hollis acted like she has everyday struggles but is really super privileged. It's hard to rally for someone around the goal of her first LV bag. (chapters about her brother and foster care were exceptions to this). There's nothing wrong with her advice, and I get that a lot of self-help is intuitive, but if the examples were coming from someone whose struggles elicited a little more sympathy I'd have found them more compelling. Also, I found her religious outlook alienating. To me, the message that everything is part of God's plan doesn't jibe well with the pull yourself up by the bootstraps philosophy.