Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I got this book is a download from my local library and, I’m glad I did not purchase it. This book tells the story of a single mom who is struggling to raise her daughter. Although her story is interesting, she makes a series of poor choices that make me wonder about how determined she was about getting out of poverty. Throughout the book she whines constantly about her difficult life, but doesn’t seem to have any self awareness as to how she got there. She seems pretty bitter about her life circumstances and appears to envy those people whose homes she cleans, apparently feeling money can by happiness. Unfortunately, she lacks insight about what to change. She blows a $4000 tax refund on some essentials, pays some bills, and then, rather than saving for the multitude of crisis that strike constantly, buys herself a diamond ring and goes on vacation without her sickly daughter. She leaves her daughter in the care of the biological father, which really surprised me given the fact that throughout the book she questions his ability to parent, their daughter safety while she is with him, and the number of unknown men that her ex seems to be leaving their daughter with. Reading further into her life story, I was hoping for a happy ending, hoping she graduates from college, gets a job, becomes self supporting and she and daughter go on to attain her purported dreams. But no, in her senior year she gets knocked up AGAIN, almost becomes homeless AGAIN, this time with 2 daughters in tow. She marries a man who tries to kill her 4 months into the marriage, yet pleads to keep him out of jail and back home before realizing she made a mistake. BTW none of this is in her book, I was just reading up on her out of interest in how things had turned out. Over all an interesting study in self-pity, whining, and blaming everyone but yourself for the circumstances you got yourself into.