PanLos Angeles Review of Books\"[The playground insults the author says about the President] may be truthful and humorous to some, depending on how many times you can laugh at \'orange-in-chief\' or \'cheeto dust\' appearing on your timeline. But they don’t present the reader with the sort of confidential information you’d assume close proximity to the most powerful man in the world would yield. For all Omarosa’s methodical scheming, her attempts to solicit support from the same liberal media she was more than happy to antagonize are sloppy and desperate ... When Omarosa writes that the discovery of the alleged N-word tape would be the \'last straw\' for her, you feel insulted at how brazenly she’s willing to undermine the reader’s intelligence to salvage her own image ... Unhinged fails to depict its author as a brave whistleblower revealing impeachment-worthy secrets on the Trump presidency ... What Unhinged does reveal is Omarosa’s knack for making her ambition, however ugly or severe, as exhilarating to watch as a horror movie.\
Morgan Jerkins
PanThe Los Angeles Review of Books\"The themes in This Will Be My Undoing are the safe, harmless kind expected from so-called diverse writers whose biggest drawing card, according to the industry, is our \'identity\' and \'lived experience\' ... Often, This Will Be My Undoing feels like a memoir for an older, more naïve internet age. It harks back to the days of the \'first-person industrial complex,\' where publications would bait young women to cobble together their best traumas, only for them to be paid in exposure and virality. It’s also reminiscent of the time, which some may argue we still live in, when young black writers were encouraged to turn normal, everyday life events into after-school specials for white liberals desperate to be scolded for their racism, and do nothing about it ... This is what is most frustrating with This Will Be My Undoing: Jerkins is so determined to present black womanhood as a state of pointed suffering that she ignores the myriad of reasons behind the statements she proposes as facts.\
