jess's Reviews > I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

This is a light, breezy read, which I think we expect from celebrity memoirs. I love road trips and sapphic chaos so it was enjoyable for me. It is Abby Jacobson's first non-illustrated book, and I think that is evident. However, her voice is so charming and earnest, I will read anything else she writes. I both listened to the audio book (so I could hear her narrate it) and read the eBook so I could see her drawings. She recounts her experiences in layers: the significance in her life at the moment when things happen, plus thoughtful perspective now that she has some distance. I appreciated the ways in which she compares her accomplishments with the standard social expectations for women, to get married and have kids, etc. She struggles with the tension of her need to love and be loved, but also to do her work and seize opportunity -- are these in conflict? it feels that way. It was so lovable and human. By the end of the book, I wanted very much to be her friend and console her through her heartbreak. Of course, now she is engaged to someone else, and I am wishing her a happily ever after. I hope she is The One Who Got Away to the person who broke her heart in this book.