PositiveThe Washington PostIt’s in the denouement of A Well-Trained Wife where Levings fully, and elegantly, reckons with what trying to live life as a perfect \"Proverbs 31 woman\"... has cost her ... The reader’s heart breaks along with Levings’s when she realizes the deal she agreed to so early in life — secluding herself to worship God, raise a family and avoid the supposed wickedness of the secular world — was based on a lie.
Britney Spears
PositiveThe Washington PostTo read the rest of The Woman in Me is to be saddened time and time again by the ways Spears has felt hurt, blindsided even, by the opportunism of others ... the details revealed in The Woman in Me disturb even more deeply as Spears illustrates the adolescent-surrounded-by-sinister-adults dynamic.
Pamela Anderson
PositiveThe Washington Post\"Certainly, she’s smarter and more thoughtful than the person many late-night hosts of the 1990s thought they were talking to, though admittedly that’s a low bar to clear. But what Love, Pamela does best is lay bare the fact that the sexpot caricature of Anderson — the mythic, crushingly larger-than-life idea of her — obscured the charms of the real one ... It is abundantly clear, though, that while Anderson wants to complicate her image as a dumb-blonde sex symbol, she wants to wholesale reject any portrayal of her as a tragic figure ... Love, Pamela invites audiences to do what might have simply been too tall an order earlier in Anderson’s colorful, eventful life: to laugh with her, not at her. To learn from her as something other than a cautionary tale. To be happy for her.\
