The first 100 pages were boring I almost DNF. The book didn't start to get good until page 200. Content warnings: hostage situation, murder, infertiliThe first 100 pages were boring I almost DNF. The book didn't start to get good until page 200. Content warnings: hostage situation, murder, infertility, stalking, organized crime. Not a page turner, not a mystery worth solving. The premise had so much potential, but the execution completely fell flat. The writing is incredibly dense, packed with unnecessary descriptions and conversations that go absolutely nowhere. Never wanted to read Niall's point of view. Why is Camilla's name shortened to Cam, was Camilla too long for the writer to type? Camilla is a girl's name, Cam is short for the boys name Cameron. The story drags on over 14 years (why? I genuinely have no idea), and the pacing is excruciatingly slow. I absolutely loved McAllister’s previous book "Wrong Place Wrong Time" so this was a disappointment. ...more
DNF there were 86 characters and 113 pages it did not get any better. This seemed to want to be a Tom Cruise spy mystery traveling all around the worlDNF there were 86 characters and 113 pages it did not get any better. This seemed to want to be a Tom Cruise spy mystery traveling all around the world to murder but it failed on execution....more
This was a fast paced mystery with only one POV and short chapters. Listen for the Lie is about Lucy who can’t remember if she killed her best friend This was a fast paced mystery with only one POV and short chapters. Listen for the Lie is about Lucy who can’t remember if she killed her best friend five years ago and now a podcast is being made to see if she was really the murderer. Every interviewee lies about something. This is the first book, in a long time, that I have laughed out loud! My hands and eyes were glued to the pages as this brilliant, twisty dark comedy-meets-murder mystery captured me and I read it in 3 days! I do enjoy a humorous thriller! The chapters were short and punchy making them easy to read and the pages did turn quickly. Usually murder mysteries have endings that speed up too fast but this was paced just right. The book was fast paced and easy to read. I loved Lucy's sarcasm and snarkiness. ...more
This was clearly written by a ghostwriter. Ivana wrote a fantastic memoir and I think Melania was trying to complete with it. Ivana started her book tThis was clearly written by a ghostwriter. Ivana wrote a fantastic memoir and I think Melania was trying to complete with it. Ivana started her book talking about growing up with communism in Czech but Melania starts her book off saying "everything thinks I had a hard life in communism in Slovenia but it didn't affect me" fast forward to the end of the book and then she talks about the restrictions of communism on her family, did she forget what she wrote at the start of the book? Melania even had a QVC jewelry line just like Ivana, that company lasted just a year.
Melania blasts her RNC speechwriter by name for plagiarizing her speech from Michelle Obama's speech. Melania's story, which I believe, claims that after watching Michelle Obama's speech she told her speechwriter over the phone that she liked these lines. The speechwriter didn't take good notes and later attributed those lines as Melania's writing them. Didn't Melania recognize those lines when she got the speech back? No, Melania goes off on how she should have had a fact checker for her speech. Girl please! You didn't write your own speech, you can't be mad it's not original material. Michelle Obama wrote her own speeches and spoke without notes. The word Obama is never used the book.
Melania uses the word "palpable" a lot throughout the book. I can barely pronounce that word, I seriously doubt it's in Melania's vocabulary. She politely mentions, with careful wording but I read between the lines, that she wasn't trying to be anyone's stepmom. Meanwhile in Kamala Harris' book she was a proud step-mom that went above and beyond in her duties! I'm sure Melania regrets that now as it seems her and Ivanka are not speaking.
She set the record on her "really don't care do you" jacket. She hates Rosie O'Donnell. She blamed the Obama administration for not allowing her to visit the White House early to see the private quarters so she could redesign it in advance. Note: Michelle did meet with Melania at the White House before she moved in. Melania didn't move to the White House until 6 months after her husband so what was the rush???
This book was published so fast after she wrote it because she writes about events in 2024 and the book is published the same year! She talks about her husband's assassination attempt and him having covid and it seems she actually likes him, shocker. She claimed to have given scholarships to an unspecified number of foster care students. She wrote how Barron was refused a bank account at her bank. And how after leaving the White House no one wanted to work with her on her charity initiatives. I had to fact check this with a simple google and it turns out her charity has never been registered and these other parties she blasts probably saw the scam and that it was just a way for them to funnel money to themselves tax-free, as they have done in the past. Just google "Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation" in 2019.
There's a lot of talk about her friendships with other first ladies. But not what actually she has done for cyberbullying or the LGBTQ community that she claims to support. She waxes poetic about the supposed work she did in the White House. She separates herself from her husband to say she is pro-choice and against separating families at the border. She does not support the BLM movement and showed how racist she was. She talks about George Floyd without mentioning his name. I had to check the date to see who this "Black Minneapolis resident" she was referring to.
The book has the most amount of color photos I've ever seen in a memoir, it was a whole chapter. This is a carefully curated book of a woman who greatly overemphasizes and exaggerates her achievements, her talents, and her poise. This book shows that Donald and Melania deserve each other and they don't care about their country. I learned absolutely nothing worth remembering about Melania. The writing is simplistic, robotic, and dull, there is lack of true depth. It feels like there is a victim mentality, making it seem like her life was hard with the media attacking her. There was no emotion in this book just like how we see her on TV. The book is utter garbage.
This is a short book with no glossy photo pages. Riley only included a few pages on cardstock so they are not that clear to look at. I don't understanThis is a short book with no glossy photo pages. Riley only included a few pages on cardstock so they are not that clear to look at. I don't understand why such a rich person would save money to do that? One of the best parts of memoirs is seeing personal photos we haven't seen before.
I only read this because I had to know if her marriage to Michael Jackson was real and consummated. They don’t talk about how she walked away from Scientology, just that she did leave it. Mostly absent from this story is Priscilla Presley which does seem to emphasize their lack of relationship. I could never quite tell if she genuinely felt no connection to her own mother. She never acknowledges that Graceland would not be there if not for Priscilla. When Elvis was alive, Lisa was a spoiled terror at Graceland, and as she was allowed to do pretty much whatever she wanted. The fact Priscilla didn't immediately get rid of her boyfriend who molested Lisa says a lot.
As far as I can tell from what I’ve read, Lisa Marie never really worked, or had a job. Her money came from the Presley Estate. She talks a bit about how every time she tried to make music, studios would interfere and try to make her songs more Elvis-like.
Sadly Riley's mother did not provide a stable life for her, they moved around constantly, from Florida to be near the Church of Scientology, to Europe and to California. When Lisa Marie ultimately descended into depression and addiction, she could no longer care for her family and Riley had to step in.
Riley is what makes this book so special, she really honored her mother and family in such a beautiful way. There is a sense of sadness that hovers over the entire book....more
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