RaveThe Los Angeles TimesCompelling ... She’s well aware of her circumstances, and her memoir reads like a long exhale. As if by chronicling the trauma she’s experienced she is finally able to let it go, or perhaps burn it all down ... It’s not a particularly uplifting read, though relief and rebellion course through it ... Much has been made of the \'bombshell\' revelations from this memoir...but vastly more interesting are the quiet revelations about herself ... The second half of The Woman in Me, which details Spears’ years in the conservatorship, reads like a feminist horror story — Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Goth classic The Yellow Wallpaper come to sinister life ... Deeply chilling.
