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. I wanted this to be a good book, I wanted to dive into its pages and find depth, instead I found this book to be as shallow as the author. Of course circumstances are different and instead I am reading journal entries instead of the others thought process, but has anyone gotten this same vibe from the two books? Every interaction she has with Javier seems fabricated and I actually rather read a book from his point of view.

As someone coming from a place of significant privilege myself, I can honestly say that this was obnoxious and infuriating to read. It was all very, and then we did this, and then we did that, and then he said this, and then I ate that. She details every single time a stranger asks what her story is and how shock and amazed they are by her “crazy” story. Second: I don’t know how many times in those 200 pages she guffaws at people and says “it’s a long story! 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.Word for word conversations and text messages made up a large portion of this book, I cringed reading most of them. Admittedly it is the worst line in the book, but why in the name of all that is literary would she leave this line in the book instead of edit it out? Rather than stay at home heartbroken, she grabs a backpack and travels solo through Europe to heal her heart from the men who shattered her world and discovers that self-love is far more life-changing than anything she could’ve imagined. At the end of the book she details how to create a self love cocktail, but it seemed like such a strange ending, because she had not really talked about any of the ingredients (meditation, exercise, etc.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Not only do I think this reads like an extended, self-gratifying, self-promoting Facebook post, but Gabrielle’s consistent fat/food shaming made me want to scream and horrified me. But if you go to her instagram and look at that day, and the swimsuit she is in, she obviously is still a size 2 and multiple comments on how they want her abs.I found out about your book just after I had 2 freaking roller coaster relationships and were stuck in the third. And a travel book should tell me SOMETHING about the places visited beyond the Eiffel Tower is high. She didn't visit historical sites or see the cities she was in or experience the local culture much at all. You booked a trip with him that is equivalent to the length of your relationship immediately after you filed for divorce, at what point did this seem like a good idea?

She shares text messages back-and-forth between her and her ex-boyfriend’s mother and sister, and it’s just so unbelievably embarrassing and awkward to read. I would try books that were recommended and not finish due to the negative tones, and the way the story was written (unrelatable). The entire book was about Javier which, is beyond insane since you “dated” a month, meanwhile you were married for 2 years and together for 5. Filled with all the characters you fell in love with, new triumphs and setbacks, a soul-defining journey to the other side of the world, and answers to all of your burning questions, this is The Ridiculous Misadventures of a Single Girl.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. this is not a story of resilience, it's a story of a rich, white woman dealing with things that tons of people deal with every day with more grace.