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Brave by Rose McGowan

You will note the missing numeric review. How can you review someone's experiences? I've reviewed Memoirs before but nothing like Brave . This book is 246 pages of cathartic verbal diarrhea for her. I don't mean that in a bad way, but you can clearly see the suffering, the frustration, the anger, the pain. There is literally no good experience that lasts more than a couple of paragraphs in the entire book. How she is still standing and functioning as a person is beyond me. It's a testament to the person she's shaped herself to be. So... #triggerwarning That being said, I feel like the book was very repetitive. The man shoves us down, girls stand up. I didn't matter because I was just a girl. She didn't matter because she was just a girl. I realize that this is legitimately how Hollywood operates. I realize that toxic masculinity is incredibly, brutally pervasive, but Rose's experiences go far beyond what most celebrities who achieve her level of fame mu...