He's Making You Crazy: How to Get the Guy, Get Even, and Get Over It
Written by Kristen Doute and Michele Alexander
Narrated by Kristen Doute
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
"If there's one thing I know, it's crazy. A lot of people have called me crazy. Crazy Kristen! For a while there, it was practically my name. Women all over the world get called crazy every day. But we weren’t born crazy—we were made crazy.”
Unpacking the ups and downs of Kristen’s laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes cringe-worthy dating history, He’s Making You Crazy will hold your hand through deep self-reflection—while giving you that push to put on your detective’s hat and hack your man’s email account if you need to. From trapping your boyfriend in ridiculous lies to gathering all your crush’s security question answers on the first date, Kristen shares her no-holds-barred, hysterically funny, and hard-earned advice on men, love, and modern dating.
He’s Making You Crazy will give you the motivation you need to get out of an unhealthy relationship (the one that’s making you crazy!), the wisdom to step up and admit when you’re the one in the wrong, and the courage to keep your heart open through it all.
Kristen Doute
Kristen Doute is a TV personality, designer, and entrepreneur known best for her fan-favorite role on BRAVO’s international hit series Vanderpump Rules. Her eco-friendly, 70s-inspired clothing line, JAMES MAE, launched in 2014 and her “Witches of Weho” wine collection, created with co-stars Stassi Schroeder and Katie Maloney-Schwartz, was released with Nocking Point wines earlier this year.
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Reviews for He's Making You Crazy
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I like her on the show, 'cause aren't we all flawed?- but, this was an overwhelming amount of garbage. There is no interesting story, no insight, nothing funny and definitely no take aways. I had low expectations, but it didnt even deliver on an entertaining level. Thank God it was a short read. I would not recommend wasting your time. She's better at being the villain on TV.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Many thanks to NetGalley, Kristen Doute, and Chicago Review Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.Confession time…One of my guilty pleasures is Vanderpump Rules. Lisa Vanderpump, a former Housewife of Beverly Hills, owns a bunch of restaurants in Los Angeles. This reality TV show is about a group of friends that originally all worked at SUR and reveals the goings-on in their twenty-something lives. Now, after eight seasons, they are all much older (though you wouldn’t know from the botox), wiser (really?), and on to bigger and better things (although most of them still work at SUR). Kristen Doute is one of the original cast members and definitely comes off as crazy on the show. So she decided to write a book and explain why all the men in her life have driven her crazy.Kristen has been through a few relationships on the show. They never end well and by the end she usually turns into a yelling, screaming, shrew that lashes out while still trying to save the relationship. One of the impetus for writing this book probably was that her bestie, Stassi Schroeder, wrote one and so she thought she could do it too. The thing is, Kristen is no Stassi. Thank goodness she was smart enough to have a co-writer, Michele Alexander, although I’m not sure what her role was. I wasn’t expecting the great American novel but some guidance as to content, continuity, and I don’t know, substance, would have been helpful.The second reason I think Kristen wanted to write this book and she does sort of mention this, is that she wanted to be able to tell her side of the story. What we see on TV is an edited version that she has no control over, so if they want her to look crazy, then crazy it is!. Here she can give as many details and round out the story to reflect more of the truth. Well, her truth. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. This book is so erratic. She is often very vague with details, jumping from one thing to another. At the same time, it seemed very empty. If she meant for this to redeem her image so that her fans would think her less crazy, this book won’t do it. I really wasn’t convinced that it was the man in the different relationships that made her crazy. I think she owns that all herself. As a self-help book, this fails. Not that I thought there would be valuable steps to follow. But she cites this as one of her goals in writing this book. I was familiar with a few of the relationships that she talked about and honestly, if I didn’t have that frame of reference, I wouldn’t understand any of what she was talking about. There was an air of inauthenticity. I felt like she didn’t write from her truth, but rather from a desire to be seen as the one who was wronged in the situation. It isn’t a good look. So overall really disappointing for me. I wasn’t expecting much, but I was hoping for better than what I got. Her co-author, I think, was a writer, so where was her influence? Kristen would have benefited from an outline, a clearer strategy for what she was trying to say, and lots more rewrites. Even if you are a fan of Vanderpump Rules, pass on this one.