Eat, Pray, #FML

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Thought this book would be more inspiring and really be about moving on after unfortunate circumstances (like divorce) however it was disappointing and annoying to see her fall in love so fast and then complain and dwell on problems with the new guy throughout the entire book instead of focusing on fun and the amazing opportunity to travel and meet new people. I found out about your book just after I had 2 freaking roller coaster relationships and were stuck in the third. It simply was a happy cliche ending without evidence or anecdotes for doing any of the self love work beyond her ‘thought onions’, which were a good promise on her path. She seemed to almost brag throughout the book about being an actress, or Instagram verified, and writing a book. It’s definitely a version of Eat, Pray, Love if you sub Pray with Party and Love with DTF, all of which are fine but a bit disingenuous.

For anyone who’s gone through love, divorce, heartbreak, or needs to learn to love themselves and take their damn power back. Each person of course expressed sorrow yet told her how amazing she is and how much an idiot they both were. I suppose a book about a rich actress who gets her heart broken and goes on a month trip to Europe wouldn’t t be as appealing. It isn’t that I am boring, the story I have to tell is my own and is all but boring once I tell it to others.It’s just page after page of her willingly making bad decisions, whining that they were bad decisions, and then having absolutely zero growth as a result of those bad decisions or consequences. What does a woman do when her life has fallen apart and her heart has been ripped out and stepped on twice in two months? That in itself is heartbreaking but reading her story gives you strength, anxiety and bucket loads of laughter, tears and hope. If you read the story you know that a certain couple are social influencers and just all-around terrible people and I would not put it past them to have a hand in voting those bad reviews.

To be honest, I am currently 68% of the way through the book currently and contemplating if I will finish it or not. I know I already texted you, but again after 4 months passed reading your books I can feel the change in my life that is caused by you. Maybe I’ve just been exposed to unnaturally fascinating people in my life, but I cannot find anything remotely enjoyable in any single character in this book. While there were important messages in this book, they were clouded by uninteresting details, repetitive plot points, and completely unimaginative language. But I was cringing so hard about Javier and her being madly in love with him after only a few weeks and obsessing over him and even texting his mom and his sister who she had met briefly to discuss private details of her relationship with him when he had told her he only sees her as a friend.Many of us have dealt with heartbreak, deceit, anxiety, being led on, falling in love, and going a tad bit crazy… but all of that was lost in a sea of self obsession. Every interaction she has with Javier seems fabricated and I actually rather read a book from his point of view. There is probably a target audience for this book but I definitely don't fit that audience and would not recommend this book. The way the book was written makes you feel like you are standing in the author's shoes and living the experience yourself.