Thank you to HarperAudio Adult and Netgalley for providing this audiobook for free in exchange for an honest review.

If you enjoyed "Full of Heart" by JR Martinez, you'll enjoy this.
It was interesting to have bits of a diary peek out in between ruminations. The narration was good- measured voice with proper enunciation and that is easy to understand.
While this book provided a meaningful insight into a man's life after surviving a life changing and threatening accident, I don't feel like it presented any impactful thesis for me. Every once in a while it would scrape the surface of impactful thoughts and opinions, then we wpuld be back to either talking about surface level idiotic things. The author has a strange fixation on sex, talking about sex, lamemting the fact that he will never have sex again, and wishing that classic literature included more sex so he could know those character's fetishes and kinks. He also mentioned multiple times that he feels he is a pain for other people, even calling himself a 'vegetable,' and at one time even recognizing suicidal thoughts. I understand that this is the perspective of a man still in the hospital and coming to terms with his new life, but this thought process is extremely dangerous and categorically incorrect. No disabled person is a pain on their friends or family, they should never turn to suicide thinking it will 'help,' and 'vegetable' is a shocking and terrible word to use.
Personally, I am walking away from this story completely disappointed, consistently I expected more and realized I was simply expecting too much of the wrong book. Perhaps you'll enjoy this if you or one of your loved ones have also experienced a tragic accident.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Audio for the opportunity to listen to this audiobook.


It was a semi interesting Memoir. I had not know the author, so I now do want to see his other works. I voted mid- because I have a hard time judging someone's LIFE. I am uncertain if I actually like/enjoyed the man behind the words. However, I give him credit for professing truth.... remove a point because he felt the need to share his 3 some. That just seemed to be "braggy" It had nothing to really do with any other story.