Okay, so Gabrielle and Javier had only been together for a couple of months, but according to Gabrielle they were the best months of her life and Javier was the love of her life. I do not condone cheating, but I found that throughout the book even though the author tried not to be judgemental, she came off as very judgemental in certain situations. 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. The way the book was written makes you feel like you are standing in the author's shoes and living the experience yourself. One woman's journey through love, marriage, divorce and how she decides to change her own life afterwards.

It was all just her own feelings, in her own head, set against a backdrop of places that should have been vivid and vivacious. He sounds like a complete asshole, but she doesn’t really reflect on her role in the marriage, it was just something that happened to her and she doesn’t reflect on why she would marry someone for seemingly surface level reasons and expect it to work out? 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.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. But for real, the entire time reading this book, I literally just kept thinking, why is this a book? However, the whole book (so far) is about how heart broken she is over Javier, yet she is constantly sleeping and making out with other people.

I'm not usually one to virtue-signal, but I could play a drinking game with the number of microaggressions in this book - drink every time there's a moment of fatphobia, racism, transphobia, slut-shaming or just general internalized misogyny! This book created feelings similar to going to lunch with that one friend who you have convinced yourself is a good person at their core, but no one would ever know, because all they do is talk about themselves the whole time and show you pictures on Instagram.Like she was desperate to end things with some sort of sage advice, that doesn't actually connect with her journey's plot line at all. Maybe if this book was shorter, I could have overlooked some of her vapid opinions and self absorption, but it was way too long to enjoy the story for what it was.