Pages: 240 (Kindle Edition)
Expected Release Date: May 5th, 2020
My Rating: 5 STARS.
I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH MORE THAN I EXPECTED TO! And y'all, I had high expectations.
As soon as I heard about it on Lauren's IG I felt like I needed it and then low and behold it was on Netgalley and I was offered the chance to read and review it. I am a country music fan but I didn't want to read this because Lauren is Thomas Rhett's wife, I actually thought it would have a little more about her work in Uganda and with Love+One, kind of along the lines of Kisses with Katie or something similar, which is what I was looking for, and it did go into her work a bit but it is so much more than that. Live in Love is a confession of absolute love and gratitude and light. It is beautiful and inspiring and I cried my way through it. Its also honest and raw and just so real which, to be honest I did NOT expect. We all live a filtered life, not least of all those under the telephoto lens of fame, but Lauren did the unexpected and told it like it is. She laid out the good times and and the hurt times, and the inclusion of Thomas Rhett's perspective really added a lot to the book. It would have been easy to just include Lauren's thoughts and feelings on their life and relationship in writing, this is her memoir after all, but it is also THEIR life, and TR's genuine involvement just emphasized the point they made in the book about doing life TOGETHER. I have so much more respect and admiration for the both of them for how honest they were about the importance of therapy and communication and how necessary it was for them to succeed together. The grass is greenest where you water it.
Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me with a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.
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