I love her blog and I like her show. I wanted to like this book, I really did. I desperately wanted to like it. 
 But I couldn't. I found myself hating it the more I read it. 
 It's divided into three parts- the first part was fairly decent, the second part okay, and the third part...well, it was slightly more realistic than the rest of the book. It was readable, but read too much like a blog entry as opposed to an actual story. Just because you're a blog writer doesn't mean that a book you right should sound exactly like your blog. 
 I felt Ree was really shallow, and really self-absorbed. She went on an on about how cute and amazing and thoughtful the Marlboro Man (her husband) was. But it was really hard to see why he seemed to be so in love with her, the way she went on about clothes, shoes, make-up and how clumsy she was. 
 Oh, speaking of her husband...she NEVER mentioned her husband's real name the entire time. NOT ONCE IN 341 PAGES DID YOU SEE HIS NAME! I got referring to him by the Marlboro Man in the first part, since she saw him at a bar and never got his name. However, once she started dating him, you'd think we'd get his name. Nope, not going to happen. Not even during their wedding was his given name mentioned. It's cutesy in her blog, and even the first few chapters of the book, but after a couple hundred pages, it's not so cute anymore. In fact, the only mention of his name is on the book jacket. WTF, Pioneer Woman, WTF? 
 She was definitely ill-prepared for being a cowboy's wife. The way she tells it, her husband and his family never talked to her about what it would be like living on a ranch in the middle of nowhere. She often worried about what to wear when she was going to the ranch. It's like it never occurred to her to ask him what she should wear. But then again, the clothes she described didn't seem suitable to living on a ranch. 
 Ree seems to be living in a fantasy world the whole book. She portrays her relationship with Ladd as a fairy tale, and he's her Prince Charming. For someone who wants to be independent, she really seems to be dependent on other people. There's no mention of her having a job, she spends her time at home or at Ladd's ranch, and seems to depend on her parents for everything. Her parents marriage falls apart, and they get a divorce, but she seems to be in denial about what's going on. When she isn't, she really doesn't seem to care that her parents are getting a divorce. She doesn't seem to care about Mike, her developmentally disabled brother, and often tells him to leave her alone. She seems to gloss over a lot of really bad things, exaggerates things that really aren't a big deal, and doesn't ask her parents if there's anything she can do to make things easier for them. 
 And as for the relationship between Ree and Ladd, I could see why she liked him and why she was attracted to him. But nowhere did I see why he might love her. I felt like their relationship was based more on passion and chemistry, but it seems rather surprising that it seems to be happy and successful. Maybe I'm a cynic, but while I like a certain amount of fluff...this was way too fluffy for my tastes. 
 I give it a 1 out of 5. I didn't like it, and while it was meant to be a sappy fairy tale, I felt a dose of realism was needed.