An interesting title that had me intrigued. And I don't know any woman who isn't interested in being a "wealthy girl", a given, right? This book might have published a while ago, but I'm only now getting to it. I will admit, I am not too thrilled after finishing this book compared to when I decided to request it on NetGalley.
Let's just say the author and I don't agree politically. She seems to put all her eggs in the "she's black" category and how everyone else needs to treat her respectively because of the color of her skin. I'm sorry. I just can't. I'm from the background of character really does matter more than the color of your skin.
While this book has great insight into the author's background in finance and sharing the story of the women in her family and herself, I'm not so sure it really helps the average person to become any kind of wealthy. Maybe I missed the whole point entirely. Whatever the case, I honestly did not glean anything useful from this book at all.
Her personal story might revolve around her race and she proved to be ambitious at her job, but why must everything be about the color of your skin? I just don't get it. Not being white nor black and living where everyone is a mixed ethnicity, I don't understand these dynamics. It really annoys me that it would be the basis of any book or story. It upsets me more than I've read it and reviewing this book than it did reading it.
Needless to say, I almost didn't get past chapter 2. It is when the author wrote some political things that I believe should not be in such a work. It's not the place for political views unless those views are part of the point of the book. In this particular book, it was totally unnecessary and it took me weeks to move on from it.
I give this book a generous 2 out of 5 tiaras because of the frustrations I had while reading. I'll just leave it at that.
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