Amanda L. (insatiablewanderlust) reviewed on 9/29/2014

I don't believe that I've ever written a book review but I feel the need to defend this book. All the reviews I've read state that the author is a spoiled, bratty women who had two beautiful men that loved her and all she wanted was to run away and this makes her selfish. I disagree. Someone once told me that "until you love yourself, no one else can love you". Ok, so a fortune cookie told me that. But I do believe that until you love yourself, you can't fully love someone else. Liz got married and tried to start a family because that is what society expected of her. However, that's not who she was and felt miserable but wanted to conform to society. Everyday that Liz continued in this facade, she continued to die a little more inside. Leaving her husband was not selfish, she was setting him free. She knew that she couldn't love him like he deserved and set him free. She then spent a year learning to love herself. Only after learning to love herself, could she then love someone else. I don't think that the author is spoiled or selfish. I think she is brave for leaving a marriage that she knew wasn't complete (even if it was her fault), for letting her husband free to find someone that could love and care for him, for having the courage to break away from the expected and learn to love herself. If I had it to do over again, I would absolutely buy and read this book.

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