Naturally Tan by Tan FranceMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
I loved this book! Non-fiction is rarely my genre of choice, and I don't read a lot of memoirs. I can count on one hand how many non-fiction books I've read in the past five years. But I saw the Fab 5 member Tan France had written something and I just had to read it. As a gay man, this new Queer Eye has been a revelation. I adore them all - the cast members, the "heroes" as they call them (meaning the people they're going to help), everything and everybody.
It was so interesting to get insight into who Tan is as a person - both before his time on the show, and after. And I love that he's pretty much exactly the same person as before, just more recognizable on the streets.
I won't say the writing is perfect. It wasn't. There's a lot of train-of-thought writing and incomplete sentences and sometimes even the paragraph splits don't seem just right... but it didn't matter, because it very honestly felt like I was sitting down and having a conversation with Tan, and just listening to him speak.
Highly recommended.
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Lots of train of thought writing, which can be jarring, especially for someone like me who usually avoids non-fiction, but I just love the Fab 5 and it was a pleasure to read about his life.
Better review upon release.
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