This is a guest book review by none other than my wife, Jane.

I just finished the book Who Do You Think You Are?, by Alyse Myers. It was sent to us by her publisher and I promised that I would read it.

The book starts out:

I didn’t like my mother. and I certainly didn’t love her. I know she didn’t like me either. I can’t say whether she loved me, as I don’t remember her ever telling me so.

This is a first-hand telling of a mother/daughter relationship that is painful to read. Misunderstandings and missed opportunities abound. As both a daughter and a mother of girls, this is a telling of a story I don’t want to live even vicariously through a book. It is a story of pain and hurt on all sides. For all that, it is a very compelling story that was very well written. I did not realize that it was Alyse Myers’ first book until after I had read the entire book and was looking at the back cover. It did leave me feeling very melancholy. I would read or at least consider reading another book by this author, I just would want some joy in her next story. If the first few lines of the book intrigue you, then you should enjoy the book, otherwise skip it.