I'm sorry but this book is boring. Even after starting to skim it halfway through, I almost DNF'ed. I like the overarching message of to not center your life around men/relationships but the author Amy Key doesn't even seem to follow that.  It gives a "why me" vibe that I don't think is very helpful to readers wanting to connect with this book. I feel for the author's pain and it makes me sad hearing her struggle throughout, but this book was hard to get through. The overall book is just depressing and repeats a lot about how the author truly does want romantic love. It is interesting to hear about her perspectives on love, families, and domestic labor to open my mind to other lifestyles. I appreciate the venerability Key has opening up about topics like grief, abortion, loneliness, etc. 

I thought this was going to be a more positive book about loving and living alone but it was not. To me, even the positive parts still had a somber tone all tying back to how Key still wishes for romantic love. It was hard to fully appreciate her friendships and other happy moments when not even a paragraph later it was back to being "love-less."

I will say, it's impressive how the author can connect her life to one single song (Blue) so much and analyze a single song for 200+ pages. I don't know who Joni Mitchell is so the analysis didn't really connect with me, probably playing into why I was so bored.