Kate Kennedy is the unifying thread for millennial women everywhere. Her writing feels both nostalgic and like you're having a conversation with your best friend. Whether you're a longtime fan of "Be There in Five" or just stumbled across this book, you'll love "One in a Millenial" (and Kate!).

Full disclosure: I am an avid fan if Kate’s podcast and was excited to see this available on NetGalley.

The good:
- Excellent level of nostalgia: The milky pens! The away messages! Loved taking a trip down memory lane.
- Very thoughtful analysis of important topics related to feminism and pop culture

The areas of opportunity:
- The introduction was extremely long, I had to put the book down and come back to it a couple times just to get beyond that.
- Sometimes this book felt more like a research paper than a memoir, which I wasn’t expecting. Maybe it isn’t really supposed to be a memoir.
- I found myself skipping a few pages here and there to get through the “bonus” pieces at the end of some chapters.

All in all, a great dose of nostalgia and I am happy to support Kate in this journey. I am worries that I may have DNF’d if I didn’t have previous familiarity with the author’s work. Thank you St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read an e-ARC of this book.

Excellent. Kate Kennedy is the voice of our generation and I'm here for every word! The way she so eloquently puts words to our shared experience of growing up in a time of mixed CDs and American girls is exactly what I look for in a trip down memory lane!

After hearing friends rave about her podcast, I was excited to see Kate Kennedy's boom available as an ARC. While the nostalgia is fun, it was unbelievably wordy and overwritten. Not every sentence needs a minimum of 97 words, 4 of which were on someone's SAT study list.

I love Kate’s podcast so it’s not surprising that I love her book. She writes just like she talks, so it’s a fast-paced, pun-filled, almost-but-not-quite unhinged delight. Her book validates the “basic” among us, and explores the experience of millennial women, and since it’s written by one of us, it rings true and lacks condescension. I particularly recommend this book to the seventeen magazine, one tree hill, Taylor swift loving millennial girls girls.

“One In A Millennial” has been on my bookish wishlist for some time, so I was quite happy to discover that it was available as a read now ARC. (Thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this opportunity to provide my honest opinion.)

My younger sister and I are technically Xennials (the “cusp” group whose members are born during the late seventies and early eighties), We grew up in the eighties and the nineties, so many of the early chapters in the book truly resonated with the experience we had. The pop culture, the early internet (AOL!)….I also remember it “all too well.” I enjoyed all the fun and quirky references and witticisms. Despite being a little older than the author, I found a lot to relate to throughout the book. Lots of nostalgia and thoughtful coming-of-age essays make this a must-read for anyone who enjoys that genre.

As a millennial myself, albeit one with quite different life experiences than the author, I really enjoyed this book. While it is wordy at times, the word play and references (esp all the Taylor Swift lyrics) truly delighted me. Though I am a bit younger, am the eldest child to the author’s youngest, am short and fat compared to the author’s “plain and tall,” and was raised in California compared to the author’s Virginia, we still both were part of the same shared straight, cis middle-class white girl culture and liked many of the same things, from Limited Too to Spice Girls to boy bands, and who can forget the Forever 21 going out top. What’s more, the way she connected her past interests to her current musings on feminism, equality, and becoming an adult in American society were pretty insightful. The author knows that she represents just one type of lived experience and expresses that clearly. For me, the first sections of the book were perhaps the most fun to read, as chock-full of said references as they were, but I did also enjoy reading about her path to motherhood and her take on the “love-marriage-baby carriage pipeline” in the latter section as well. She doesn’t speak for every millennial, but I’ll take Kate Kennedy over Hannah Horvath any day (not a reference she makes, though she does appear to watch HBO, as she did give us Sex & the City allusions). I loved it, 5 stars from me.

DNF at 18%. It’s incredibly wordy without really going anywhere. Feels like something I’d enjoy reading an article for, I don’t need a whole book. Some funny parts, just not enough for me to want to keep going.