If you can get a hold of this book in audio format, I highly recommend! Dylan is persistently upbeat, and her lighthearted, caring nature truly comes across in her narration. I really appreciated her raw vulnerability mixed with her theater-geek personality, it is so engaging and a story you'll want to listen to again and again!

This book was different than I was anticipating. It was incredible seeing into Dylan's mind and going through all of the stages of joy and grief that she also went through. While I enjoyed the premise and the story, the journalistic and informality was a little tough at times to feel totally immersed in the story. I love Dylan and I wish her only success on her path to feeling more and more herself, especially in these trying times.

Any fans of Dylan's 100 Days of Girlhood project on TikTok or people looking to learn more about trans women from a trans woman will adore this book. I love how the cover is styled very Judy Blume-esque. Mulvaney writes how she speaks so I really enjoyed that conversational tone. It feels like friend telling you their story. The physical book is so gorgeous too with the illustrations.

Thank you to NetGalley, Harry N. Abram’s, and Dylan Mulvaney for an eARC of Paper Doll!

I read this SO fast, and it was enlightening to hear about Dylan’s experience. I read Redefining Realness by Janet Mock back in college and loved it and knew I needed to read this as well! I am a Cis white woman, but someone I love is transgender, and stories like this allow me to understand her better and what she might need for me without me having to ask her directly. That being said- I am sure I can just ask, but this I feel allows me to educate myself so she does not have to educate me, I feel like that’s unfair to her. Now back to this book specifically! Dylan Mulvaney was fun and very introspective. I love that she wanted to learn and understood she was in a place of privilege and was always looking to do better for her community. I actually did not know who Dylan Mulvaney was prior to this memoir, but I’d say she does a great job laying out her background so that just wasn’t necessary. She absolutely garnered a new follower in me!

An insightful and engaging read intertwining Dylan’s first days of girlhood with present day introspection of her journey so far. I didn’t know much about Dylan before reading her book (and when I say this I mean to the point that I didn’t even know about her Tiktok origins), so I’ve come away from this with a nuanced look at a woman who’s come into her own after a lifetime of exploration and self discovery. The pacing did drag a bit at times, but the casual conversational stories themselves were all quality.

thank you, dylan, for sharing all these new facets of yourself and your art with us all! i am glad to have your presence radiating with raunchy joy and musical theatre grace from a new corner of the internet.

many thanks to abrams image and netgalley for the advance reader copy.

I found Dylan when she was very early on in her journey of being a girl and immediately fell in love with her personality. In her book, she gives an honest and open reflection on her first year of being a girl. There were so many things I did not know about the transition period that she really educated me on and a lot of perspectives I never really thought about as a cisgender woman. I watched many of her videos during her first year and still learned a lot about her from this book. I had no idea she was a stand-up comedian until now. I knew some of the damaging things she went through regarding some of her PR campaigns but didn't know from her own perspective how these things affected her so much. She is really an inspirational woman and I can't wait to see where else her journey takes her. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Love love love! This was such an eye opening and honest read. I normally enjoy celebrity memoirs, but this one was so genuine and heartfelt. Being trans is hard enough but Dylan put themself out there for everyone to read. So brave and beautiful!

Paper Doll is less a memoir and more a memoir of a very specific period of time interspersed with background/backstory and snippets of how we got where we are today. And that's cool! I usually have the notion of "oh honey you're too young to write a memoir" with certain other books but for this one, it really worked. This is Dylan Mulvaney's memoir of having "been" a boy (rather, someone designated male at birth) and her memoir of becoming a woman through the ~2ish years of transition (and exploding into social media virality) covered here. It's part narrated diary entries and part musings on events in a way that flips around via time in a way that can sometimes be confusion in its non-linear fashion, but comes together as a whole in a trans speedrun, openly acknowledging the white and influencer-privilege she has despite things that have happened (as she says, Google "trans beer girl") to try and bring her down. She's living her best life, and being someone so young still, is definitely still on the road to maturation. I'd love to listen to a memoir from her in another 20 years to see the person she's grown into. (I also don't have TikTok and have never watched one of her videos, only heard about her here and there via cultural osmosis.)

The tone is very "chatting with your girlfriends" in a way that's so accessible while also opening herself up to vulnerability and educating via "Trans 101" at times. It's a fun, quick read, and the illustrations (so far, as more are to come in the published version) are so cute! They really suit the retro vibe of the cover, too.

Thank you to Abrams | Abrams Image and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for review!

Paper doll was an excellent read. The writing was propulsive and very detailed. I would read more from this author.

This is one of my new favorite memoirs! I've been following Dylan since she began her Day #___ of Girlhood series on TikTok. She did such a beautiful job telling her story in a way that was vulnerable, but filled with her signature bubbly sense of humor. This is also great for fans of I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy.

I remember the first time I saw Dylan on TikTok (the early, early days of girlhood like Day 12 or something) & not quite understand who this person was but knowing immediately that she & I would be friends. And that’s what this book felt like, just two friends chit chatting away. Tea was spilled, tears were shed & at the end it felt like a giant hug.

I adore a good memoir and I enjoy Dylan and her content so much! I've been following her all through her days of girlhood journey so I simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to listen to her memoir (narrated by the author!)
This memoir was authentic and real, funny, relatable and charming - just like Dylan herself. I had to snatch up a physical copy and the book is simply gorgeous (should I have expected any less though-c'mon, Dylan is high fashion)
Swipe to see more of the dust jacket, end pages and a peek at the inside. Needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir. I highly recommend to anyone who has been following along Dylan's journey and those who have not!

This book is written mostly diary style, which is nice, and sounds very much like I'd imagine a conversation with Dylan going. It gives a pretty honest look at what it's like to transition as an influencer. I do appreciate Dylan addressing how privileged she was to be able to get and afford the affirming healthcare that she needed as quickly as she did.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Abrams | Abrams Image and to NetGalley for an ARC of this book.

I really like Dylan and I was really excited to see that she had a book. I knew that it was one that I must read.

I loved hearing about her journey navigating being a trans person. She shares her story with humor and I really liked that. I listened to part of this as an audiobook ( which she reads) and I highly recommend it.

I love Dylan Mulvaney. I loved hearing how much she’s learned in the last few years especially since beergate. I loved hearing that she pointed out that she doesn’t speak for every trans person.

So glad I got to read this memoir! Great writing and interesting to hear her story. A wonderful read!

Thank you NetGalley and Dylan Mulvaney!

I'm fairly familiar with Dylan from TikTok and other social media, but as I'm a Millennial and she's Gen Z, I'm not quite as intimately familiar with her goings on as someone a few years younger may be. However, I think her book, which includes essays in the "present" day and journal entries from the start of her very public transition, is a vulnerable look at her life, both as a trans woman and a newfound celebrity. She's funny, honest, and genuine, and I think her likability make this a quick, easy, and enjoyable reading experience.

I really loved hearing the past few years from Dylan’s perspective! She is such a cool and funny person and this book reflects that so well.

I loved the style of this book - the journal entries interspersed with essays about specific points of her journey.

If you would enjoy reading a memoir from Dylan Mulvaney, I would highly recommend this book. I’d also recommend it if you are curious about her perspective, how a trans influencer came to be, or if you enjoy pop culture and memoirs!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Dylan's publishers for an advance copy of this book!

While I had this ARC before the election, I only picked it up after, which made Dylan's story all the more important, urgent, and powerful. AND, I deeply appreciate the power in Dylan's reflections because these reflections clearly come from an authentic place, which I find refreshing.

Highly, highly recommend.