As a lover of Frida myself, I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately, this book was not my cup of tea. I found it to be bland and devoid of the life that Frida herself infused into everything she did. I had gone into reading this book thinking it would a guide that used Frida’s wisdom and applied it to daily life. I instead got an interpretive biography, and that’s a big difference.
I probably would not have picked up the book had I realized that the way it was marketed wasn’t anything like what was inside the book. This book does not make good on what the synopsis or the cover promises which is a guide to living boldly like Frida. This is a fairly dry biography with some commentary thrown in.
I had a Kindle edition of this book, and the formatting was so bad that there were times I debated just not finishing the book because the formatting was so distracting: artwork cut in half and split between pages (The one-piece not cut in half is 95% of the way through the book), and columns that should’ve been sidebars were not reformatted for kindle layout.
At times, the fact that this book was written and rushed to the presses within the last seven months. It feels unrefined in parts, and the section breakdowns don’t always work well. It feels like it should have had a round (or another round) of beta readers on a platform such as NetGalley where I received my copy, and then had another round of revisions based on that feedback.
It was not a terrible book, but it was not what it was marketed as either.