What a powerful read! Robbins gives the reader insight into her addiction and the repercussions that followed. Heartbreaking and eye-opening this book was wonderfully written considering the author didn't graduate from high school. Robbins provides the reader an inside view of the dangers of addiction and the extremes an addict will go to feed their addiction. A must-read for lovers of memoirs surrounding addiction.

Thank you #Netgalley for this advanced copy!

Wow! I appreciate Laura's raw honesty as she shares her past and coming to terms with addiction, all while putting her children first. Laura has grown so much from her early years to where she is now. It was not an easy journey, but was so happy to see where she is at now. Though we initially learn that Laura kept so much of her past private, almost as though she was living two lives. She eventually has to share her past and unite it with her present life. Allowing those around her to learn who she really is. This is a powerful read.

Stash by Laura Cathcart Robbins was an interesting look at how not even if you have spent your life building protections and walls around you, it can all come crashing down. I really admire Robbins' honesty and vulnerability. A beautiful memoire!

Robbins reflects on her experience with addiction with grace and humility. Like "Beautiful Boy," this book deserves to be read by everyone -- not just addicts and their friends and family. Her story is raw, heartbreaking, and a must-read this winter.

Stash is a powerful account of one woman's struggles with addiction. I find these types of memoirs fascinating. I thought the book was well structured and enjoyed the writing style of Robbins. Thanks to NetGalley for providing an advanced copy for the purpose of this review. Bravo on the cover art as well!

I love a good addiction memoir. This one was full of lots of drama, with a hidden stash of Ambien, clandestine alcohol deliveries, an ongoing divorce and custody issues, and a secret rehab boyfriend. The author wrote with transparency and perspective about her addiction and her (sometimes halfhearted) efforts to get clean in the midst of a high-profile divorce. I admire the author's writing talent, despite not having graduated from high school.

While other addiction memoirs often detail rock bottoms that include doing unspeakable things for drug money, living on the streets, or alienating close friends and family, this one was vastly different. The author was married to a powerful Hollywood director and producer and by her own accounts lived in the lap of luxury. While I understand that wealthy people still struggle with addiction, it was a little difficult to identify with her when she described taking a private jet to rehab, having her housekeeper accept her drug deliveries, or worrying that her divorce would force her to move out of her 11,000 square foot home. The number of times the luxury brand names of her clothes, shoes, cars, and purses were mentioned was a little overboard. The whole book had a very "Real Housewives" vibe, and while I definitely don't want to minimize the pain she experienced, it was hard to feel sorry for her.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria books for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

Stash is a vivid memoir about addiction. With raw, unflinching honesty, Laura tells the story of how she ended up in the throes of addiction and how she crawled her way back to sobriety. Highly recommended! It's a truly enlightening read.

So real, so great. Loved this book.

Thanks to author, publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book. While I got the book for free, it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.

While I'm not a mother, nor have I had an addiction of that nature, relating to Laura was hard. The Ambien, and her children dominated the story in an understandable way, followed closely by the divorce.
It's written very well, and easy to read. Laura's descriptions of her emotions and that need to feed her addiction left me with good bumps at times.
I couldn't connect to the story of her divorce either, as I was never convinced there was anything wrong with her husband. I was constantly waiting for him to do something bad, but he was always in good light.
Overall, I enjoyed reading Stash. Being a memoir dealing with drug addiction kept the reality of the situation in tact while reading. While if this was a fictional novel I wouldn't have felt the same way reading it.
Thank you Netgalley, publisher, and author for a free e copy.

Interesting book exploring addiction in some new ways--as well as exploring the addiction to ambien in ways that are both frightening and enlightening.

In this contribution to the Addiction Memoir genre, Robbins takes the reader on her journey through Ambien addiction and details her time at the Meadows treatment facility in Arizona. Her backstory is not as fleshed out as the portrait of her desperation for pills, the doctor shopping and hiding the pills (and alcohol) from her high-powered director husband and 2 small children. Also detailed is the experience of being a patient at the Meadows, where she becomes attached to a fellow (male) patient and continues contact with him after they are both discharged.


There is less written about Robbins' childhood and past, which include abusive parenting and lack of education, and even less about how she met and married a well-known Hollywood director, becoming one of the wealthy Malibu elite. Also, as extensive as the addiction scenarios and Meadows process is described, there is very little regarding Robbins' long-term aftercare and recovery.