The writing in No Rules is wonderful. It's hard to believe this story is a memoir not a work of fiction.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC for an honest review.

This was a fantastic look into life as a teenage girl in the late 60s/ early 70s in California. The summers of love, sex, peace and drugs, and never staying in the same place for any amount of time. I really enjoyed this and the author did so well in taking the reader along for the journey into finding her place in the world and what it meant to be a woman who wanted more for herself than just marriage and kids in a time when no more was expected of them. Great story!

A memoir of growing up in the 1970s.A book of communes drug trips life lived on the edge.Hippie culture comes alive i the authors intimate stories.#netgalley#shewritespress

Good book. A fresh take on 60s escapism and self-discovery. Not ground-breaking but very enjoyable..
Avoids many of the cliches of writing about this era and is a lot more questioning of motives of many people the protagonist comes across - parents, fellow travellers, drug advocates, employers.

No Rules by Sharon Duckett, is a look back on her life through the hippie movement.
She is bored in her existence living a mundane life at home with her overbearing parents, a mom who parents from fear. She jumps at the chance to runaway with her sister to a new life full of, freedom, drugs and sex. What could possibly go wrong?

Although this book was enjoyable, I feel that I was not connected to the main character. There was not enough feeling & emotion in the telling of her story.

This book was just okay for me.

Sharon Duket''s No Rules reminded me a bit of Mary Karr's Cherry. California - the 70s.... it all kind of works in my head.

Sharon and her sister - with three months rent and a $50 vehicle - run away to California and live a true hippy life. her sister soon grows bored of this lifestyle and returns home - while Sharon stays and becomes involved in the grass roots feminist movement of the early 1970s.

It's an insiders look at a time that has been written about and portrayed on tv and film. Sharon holds nothing back - drugs and sad stories are included in this book - but she does so with a lightness and a tone that evokes a conversation with a friend.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Fun. Adventure. Freedom.
Go where you wanna go. Do what you wanna do. The word wanna is from the lyrics of a popular song back in the day.
Escape your mundane teen existence in the early '70s and live the hippie life.
Sharon Dukett did it, but "No Rules: A Memoir" makes it sound like it wasn’t all that wonderful.
Memories of drug-taking bored me. Recollections of road trips thrilled me.
Other accounts saddened me. I wanted empathy or sympathy for the teen from almost 50 years ago.
So many more emotions were involved, and because of that, I recommend the book.
Many thanks to She Writes Press and NetGalley for the ARC.