Jaci Velasquez

Hilarious Memoir. So I admit it - I'm old ish. Though still a little over 3 yrs younger than the author herself. ;) But because of that, I was a teen myself when the author, as a slightly older teen, burst onto the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) scene back in the late 90s and early 2000s and sold literally millions of albums. Hell, I bought some of them, and still have at least one of them 20 yrs later. (Now digitized.) In this memoir, Velasquez talks about the entirety of her 40 years on this earth, from her beginnings traveling around as her parents sang in various churches to the beginnings of her own singing to that period 20 yrs ago when she came into my own life via the radio to her "year of failure" (my term for what turns out was roughly the same time period on Earth, when I too was struggling) to her rebuild and experiences in the aftermath. Absolutely hilarious, and her communication skills are readily abundant - Velasquez is truly an excellent story teller, at least in memoir or song form. Ultimately I had to dock the book a star simply because of the abundant use of proof texting, even though she uses it here mostly to have some "Christian" backdrop to the overall memoir, rather than as a way to try to support some central external thesis. Still, a truly excellent book and very much recommended.

I will note that this was an ARC and thus I was given a free review copy. As is my own policy, however, I don't care how I obtained a book, I give my own honest review on every book I read. Period.… (plus d'informations)