You're only reading this if you watch Real Housewives of Atlanta, which is fine. (Me, too.) But you don't even get any good gossip -- yeah, we know Nene used to be a "dancer." The writing is actively terrible, there are lots and lots of typos which no one seems to have noticed, there's no continuity between scenes, and people scream at each other for no good reason. Our heroine, Sasha, is beautiful, smart, classy, and determined -- but of course also totally ratchet and ready to "go there" if she has to, including shouting "Who gonna check me, boo???" at one point, and starting a clothing line called She By Sasha. If you've watched the show, those are not very subtle shout outs Sheree is giving herself -- she is the most beautiful, most classy, and most amazing, but also the most hood when she needs to be, apparently. Sheree is borderline bananas on the show, and this book has just reassured me that she is borderline bananas in real life, too.
Anyway, the epilogue is absolutely bonkers. I think it was an attempt at a Gone Girl twist, but it is nuts and makes no sense. I was thinking that Bob, Sheree's real-life ex, should be super flattered by the book, but after the epilogue I get why she warned him about it. After this season, I understand why she wrote him as a monster. He is definitely a horror show who doesn't understand why it's not funny to joke about that time he choked her, and she deserves any kind of revenge she can get, including literary. However, the reveal of his evil intentions here is bonkers. The whole book is bonkers. Read it if you want to read long insane passages to your friends, I guess.
Grade: D
#16 in 2017
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