Rhonda S. (imapugmom) reviewed Very good book - let her guard down on 10/23/2008 + 18 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 17

I totally disagree with the reviewer who only gave it 1 star and with what she believes was the motive to write the book.

I grew up watching the Brady Bunch and I'm about 10 years younger than Maureen McCormick. I found her story shocking at times, sad, courageous, brave...and, really somewhat normal.

She isn't Marcia Brady but she lived in that perfect shadow for years. Having personally grown up in a family with mental illness and the family was in denial and everything was a secret I could TOTALLY relate to many aspects McCormick openly shares in the book. I never did drugs, but the pain she indured can be easily empathized with.

For anyone who thinks this book was done for money, they have never battled personal demons...at least not battled them consciously and came out in the end winning. I think McCormick would have written this book and released it for free if she thought it would help another person avoid some of the pitfalls she found herself in over the years.

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