I read this book within a day.

The author writes a long and heartfelt letter to her parents in which she shares her regrets, tries to understand their points of views as per their upbringing and shares what she wished she would have told them.

The letter demonstrates how she has matured and is a testament of love and respect.

At times, I would have preferred a chronological biography instead of a letter format as it was tedious to read a 200 pages letter.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for granting me a complimentary e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

I’m not really sure about this book. I thought it was going to be a book from an author, who is a daughter of a former American President, who realized she had judged her father and mother wrongly, but I was wrong. In some ways I was right but for the most part I was wrong. Patti Davis writes of her mother and father as if she loves them from a distance and never really knowing them. The love lost between mother, father, and daughter in reading this book seems to me to have started with the daughter and her thoughts or feelings about things instead of giving her parents honor and the benefit of the doubt and trying to understand their feelings of things. But I don’t believe any of us will ever know the exact truth, but I do think that Miss Davis just resents them, her mother a LOT more than her dad, for some reason and I truly didn’t really figure out why with this book anyway. Thank you to #NetGalley and the author, Patti Davis, and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review #DearMomandDad with my honest thoughts and opinions. I appreciate it extremely.

A love letter to the author’s parents, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, a reminiscence of a different time. This book was more personal and brief than I had expected, the epistolary format intimate and moving. The message a reckoning both of what happened and what could have been.

Despite the distance between them and her resentment of America’s intrusion into their lives, the love her father showed her when she was a young child, and the faith in God he taught her, sustained her through the darkest moments of her life. And continue to do many years after his death.

I enjoyed reading this and finding out more about the author's life with her famous parents. The Reagans were fascinating to all who grew up in that time. I was a young girl during his presidency and this book intrigued me as it told more about that time in our history, but from her personal stories.

Release Date: February 6, 2024

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As a frequent guest columnist for the New York Times, Patti Davis has distinguished herself as one of our wisest contemporary storytellers. Far from being the enfant terrible she was once portrayed to be, Davis turns an honest yet empathetic eye toward her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, combining bittersweet recollections—of her father, the eternal lifeguard, who saved 77 people from drowning yet failed to create a coherent AIDS policy, and of her mother, who never escaped the torture chamber of her own youth—with comedic scenes as if plucked from a sitcom, as she describes marrying her yoga instructor at the Hotel Bel-Air, hiding her marijuana stash from the FBI, and constantly evading the Secret Service. An inherently wise work about a family finally reunited through Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Dear Mom and Dad will be readily appreciated by any adult grappling with the legacy of a troubled childhood.

Dear mom and dad by Patti Davis was such an interesting and hilarious read. It was so interesting to read about her life with her parents from being young when they were movie stars on to when they were president and First Lady. Patti has a beautiful way of writing that keeps you captured by her story.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions and thoughts are my own.

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Thank you to NetGalley, the author Patti Davis and the publisher for giving me an advanced copy of this book. This is my honest review.

I enjoyed this book so much. I went into it not really knowing what to expect, and I was pleasantly surprised. It's really not a book about politics and a political family, as much as it's a book about a dysfunctional family and trying to heal and break that cycle.

Patti Davis is an incredible writer and writes from her heart. Both her parents Nancy Reagan(Davis) and the former President Ronald Reagan have passed away. With all families though, what your parents have told you and how they have treated you, stays with you even after they are gone.

This is her story about feeling like an outsider in her own family. A family that never communicated and never faced up to anything difficult. If you come from a dysfunctional family (or even if you don't) this is a great read. I underlined whole paragraphs in the book and really felt that she had a lot of great insight and wisdom to pass on.

In her 70's now, Patti Davis has come to terms with much of her childhood and has reached an understanding about why her parents were the way they were. Fascinating book and so well written. I can't recommend it enough, no matter what your politics are.

For some reason, I didn't realize who this book was about or who the author was. Once I figured it out, I was pleased that i got the opportunity to read it. A wonderful family.

I love presidential biographies and autobiographies they are some of our most popular requests so I’m very excited to acquire the new book by Regans daughter Patti Davis. It’s sure to be a beautiful and stunning portrait of one of the most impactful couples in presidential history. I look forward to sharing much more soon.