✨Book Review✨

What if YOU Are the Answer? Rachel Hollis

📖 This book has to be some of Rachel’s best work - I truly enjoyed discovering more about Rachel, but also more about myself. Rachel asks some tough questions, but not without giving insight to her own answers. She talks about how life isn’t easy - but that you don’t always need answers, sometimes you need good questions - because the best questions can change everything.

📚 Rachel talks to the reader like you’re besties sitting together on the couch or at a restaurant enjoying drinks. She asks you some hard questions, but also is vulnerable with her own life. She will tell it like it is, but make you laugh at the same time. Rachel has wisdom that she has earned over her lifetime that she's willing to share with you.

I was able to read this book ahead of its’ publishing, and I am so thankful for the opportunity to do so. Thanks to @RachelHollis and @NetGalley for the ARC!

🌟 If you like Rachel Hollis (or Jen Hatmaker, or Glennon Doyle, or women who aren’t afraid to say the hard things) then you have got to preorder this book!

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Just he book I needed to read at this point in my life. I have followed Rachel Hollis for a few years and this book is going to be another hit. Ms. Hollis reaches into her experiences to help all of her followers see that there are others with the same feeling and thoughts. Her devastating miscarriage spoke to me in very special ways. I love the way she cuts to the chase and gives practical information that is easy to understand. Thank you #NetGalley for the ARC and a special thank you to Ms. Hollis for her transparency and help.

I feel like Hollis tries too hard (to be funny, to be relevant, to be shocking), but her books are quick/easy to read and inspire a new attitude after reading. I didn’t love “What If YOU Are the Answer?” but I can see the appeal to her fans.

What If YOU Are the Answer? by Rachel Hollis is my third read from this author, and I found that her latest lived up to my expectations. As usual, Ms Hollis takes a conversational, relatable approach to offering up observations accumulated from her varied experiences, and clearly no topic is off limits. The lyrics to Landslide particularly resonated with me on a very profound level, much as they did with the author. I did feel that several stories pushed the boundaries of being more than a little graphic. I was also surprised that a decision was made, somewhere during the editing process, to include the author's most deeply personal and heartwrenching share in the final pages of the book.

Overall, fans of Rachel Hollis will enjoy this intimate glimpse into the author's personal life, and leave with more than a little food for thought.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Authors Equity for an ARC.

Within minutes of starting this book I had to Google the author and yea, that’s about what I expected. Ick. I’d probably take my life advice from anyone else, who has a real clue and compassion. The title is literally you don’t need to buy this because I have no answers for you and she’s correct on that. I feel gross.

Oh my god… oh my god… OH MY GOD!

Ok, now that I got that out of my system, Ms. Hollis you completely broke me but in the best possible way.

When I started this book I just wanted to read it because Rachel Hollis wrote it and she writes phenomenal books that make you stare at a blank wall and contemplate so many things. This one hit different. Let me explain.

I’m a people pleaser. I’m a people pleaser who has been in a rut for the last two years but feels as if this is it and I cannot move from this spot. I’ve been depressed, anxious, and crying out for help that no one has noticed. My family are those that only care about themselves, and as the black sheep of the family I’m basically delegated to the corner crying by myself.

Now that we have that terrible mental image, here is why this book I feel has started the process of helping me forge a new path in my life.

I cried countless times reading this book because I felt as if Hollis was talking directly to me. I highlighted so many spots in this book, I’m going to have to buy a hard copy so I can add some annotations. Not only did I discover that I am a bonsai tree (read the book and it will make sense), but it’s not only my family holding me back it’s my childhood self.

I cannot even articulate all the things I’ve learned from this book. Hollis, you are a genius. This is the best self-help book you’ve - nay, ANYONE - has ever written. I’ve read several and this is the first to stick with me.

Readers, you’re going to want to read this one and then read it again. That is my plan. I’m going to let this book marinate for a bit and then dive back in. It’s time to reclaim my life, and it starts with ME.

I know I got this as an ARC, but I promise this is 100% my opinion. I loved every word. Hollis, you have been through so much and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing those experiences with us.

If you feel stuck or are looking to start a new chapter in your life and are unsure how, pick up this book in 2025. You won’t regret it.