There is no way I could read this without every word radiating with the reminder of Carrie Fisher's recent death. I wish I could have read it before that, but I didn't, and so every page was set out for me like a memorial. Inevitably it did affect how I interpreted and took her words, and I think that contributed to the sense of disappointment I felt when I finished the last page. 
 As always, Fisher spun words elegantly and it was never a boring read. Like many people I am an avid Star Wars fan and any insight into the hiring process, the behind the scenes, the relationship between the actors... I'm all for it. At first it was very interesting, and I almost felt the nervous, self-conscious perspective of a nineteen year old Carrie as she stumbled her way into the auditions and surprised herself by becoming Princess Leia. I could empathise with her worries and the paranoia of being unsure of where her life was heading. The insecurities, the second-guessing, the casual way she brushed off the attention she received in the 70's movie scene. It all felt very real. 
 The book, however, dragged on its heels as Fisher wrote paragraph upon paragraph about the reveal of her 'three month one night stand' with Harrison Ford. There was no real emotional backdrop to this, no insightful prose of a woman looking back at her younger self and gaining a new perspective, only the reiterating of the same issues and confusion she still has today about the affair and of Ford himself. It was very sad to read her still questioning herself when around him in present day, leaving the recollections with a hollow echo to them. I am not judging Fisher for her opinion of her own life (no one can do that), but only that in her revisiting of this time of her life, it wasn't with the more down to earth, no-shit-taking view that she applies to so many other parts of herself. It all read like she was writing this primarily to get it out of her head onto paper, so perhaps other people could figure out what she still could not. 
 I hope that she had more peace with it than the book would suggest. Fisher was an admirable, wonderful individual and she will be missed, but I do wish this hadn't been her last word.