Mediaman's Reviews > Born to Fly

This isn't much of a memoir--it's mostly parenting advice, complaining about radio stations not playing female country artists, and verbalizing anxiety. And while I admire Sara Evans' Christian faith and her claims about trusting God, she spends a lot of the book worrying about everything or not accepting her circumstances.

She ultimately blames most of her problems on her childhood accident when she was hit by a car, as well as her parents' divorce, and what she calls PTSD. What I'm more interested in is her first marriage, her famously splitting from her husband in the middle of Dancing With The Stars, and insights into the music business. Unfortunately there's nothing in this book that I was looking for. She barely mentions DWTS, hardly mentions anything about the music business beyond claims of sexism in radio (without much evidence), and must be legally bound to not discuss her first marriage because she avoids it.

There's no depth to anything in the book except when she wants to spout advice about step-parenting and being a Christian who doesn't want to follow anyone's rules. I found myself disagreeing with many of her conclusions, thought she gave some really bad parenting advice, relied too much on making sexual stereotypes, and had really simplistic views of Christianity with some bad doctrine. She's not a person I would ever take advice from and she misused this book--instead of sharing deep stories and drawing conclusions about how she has grown or changed she wastes most of it rambling and rebelling. While she may have been "born to fly" as a singer, this memoir never gets off the ground.