Wacky On The Junk

This was a promising premise for an interesting autobiography/memoir by Kathy Varner about her life and experiences of familial The loss and developing depression. However I really struggled with quite a few elements of this book. First and foremost the structure and development of key plot points was very problematic. The first third of the book seemed to flit between random snippets of Kathys early life that didn't link up with one another or make much cohesive sense back to back. Then when she starts to progress the chronology of her story, she bombards the story with too many topics. This book would have benefited better from streamlining the main intentions of the book and allowing the mental health element or familial loss to take precedence over the story. As oppose to those two topics on top of her career developments, marriages and a brief random discussion on how a healthy diet can improve mental health at the end of the book. The ending was very abrupt and the formatting of the copy I received I found very frustrating as it has the title italicised in the middle of the text on every page.

However I did find some beautifully written passages in this book and found some real promise in her writing style. I would be interested to see how she would write fiction as there are certainly rays of brilliance in this book. I just think it required a bit more proof reading and editing.


Thanks to the author Kathy Varner and Voracious Readers Only for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

I normally quite enjoy reading memoirs of ordinary people with ordinary stories, provided there is some angle or at least it is beautifully written. This was neither, but I still found it quite entertaing to read about a somewhat dishevelled life.

It was a quick, quirky read, I enjoyed the tone more than the writing or her life story itself, and it is all about how life choices as well as the food and nutrients we choose to eat, impact on our daily lives.

With a bit of leading and direction from a good editor, this could have been a great book..

Thanks to Netgalley, who let me read it in exchange for an honest opinion about it..