Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book. These opinions are completely my own.

I'll be honest, until reading this book, all I knew about Josh Gad was that he was Le Fou, Oleg and Elder Price.


Reading his story was fascinating and sends a great message of hard word and not cutting short your vacation in New Zealand for a racist schoolmate.

Once I picked up this book I couldn't put it down,

I'm always amused to read a theatre memoir (it's a lot of what I've been reading recently xD) and while this isn't my favourite, it is definitely entertaining. Josh Gad is a funny man, and he's pretty good at telling stories in entertaining ways.

The book being broken up into childhood/acting/parenting and life things I think is a neat idea. It allows the book to be structured without needing to be chronological the whole time. It works well enough, I wasn't lost and wondering where in the timeline anything was, and there's a lot of relating back to content you've already read, so it's still easy to follow, I just prefer a chronological approach myself.

At 70% I felt pretty secure in my review (what is written above), and I knew it wouldn't take me long to finish the book. At 80%, I can't finish it. Unfortunately, after the chapter that starts off with a beautifully written breakdown of what it was like for his grandparents in the Holocaust, and ended in a very clear and direct stance on the conflict in Palestine, I am no longer comfortable with rating this. (For the purposes of netgalley, I am giving this 3 stars based on how it is written and organized, and but I will not be rating this on any other platform).

I love behind-the-scenes books about entertainment and this book was certainly no disappointment. When Josh Gad discusses entertainment, he is a great storyteller; always captivating. And the book was funny; I started laughing at the first page. The foreword by Sacha Baron Cohen, of whom I am not a fan, was excellent. At one point I thought that Gad was being too boastful when discussing his participation in forensics (as in formal debate, not as in crime) but I watched a video of one of his performances and it was even better than described in the book, so I have to say Gad was being accurate. The main weakness of the book was when Gad was in my opinion, overly schmaltzy or offered too much advice. Otherwise, this is a great book. Thank you to Netgalley and Gallery Books for the advance reader copy.

This is by far one of the best written memoirs I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I laughed, I cried, I learned some stuff and overall had the best time reading this. I've love so much of Gad's work and being able to see behind the scenes of some of his most famous roles was just so much fun. I also loved being able to just learn more about him as a person, father and actor. If you're a fan of Josh's work it's truly a must read!! It covers really his whole life thus far diving into his Broadway show's to movies such as Frozen and Beauty and the Beast as well as his personal experiences such as his parents divorce to fatherhood!

I can't wait to get a physical copy and re-read it with the audiobook!!!

When it comes to Hollywood memoirs, aside from the rare one that really breaks out as a pop culture moment, and the ones that really suck and quickly sink, they tend to appeal to super fans and often not go beyond that.

Josh Gad - best known to me as Frozen's Olaf and as a smart, funny talk show guest - has a book of essays coming out in January, and while I am not a superfan I do tend to laugh a lot when he comes on screen.

In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some shows that Gad is a funny, eloquent writer, and I hope he writes more. This book has laugh out loud moments from when he was a teenage debate champion to when he broke through on Broadway and in Frozen, and behind the scenes stuff about jobs he got and didn’t get; that stuff is fun, with humour and heart, and really well written.

The more serious and touching stuff - weight and body image, antisemitism, his allegedly gay DIsney villain moment in the Beauty and the Beast remake (it wasn’t) - are not always handled as deftly, as he seems to be trying very hard to keep it light.

Overall a funny, well written collection, and a treat for fans.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book. It publishes in January,

This was a fun read! I liked hearing Josh’s anecdotes and stories about growing up and the beginning of his career. I also loved seeing the behind the scenes of creating a Broadway musical, re-imagining a beloved Disney classic into a live action movie, and becoming the world’s most famous snowman. A great memoir for theatre fans, Disney lovers and pop culture aficionados alike.