It's Not What It Looks Like
by Molly Burke
Narrator: Molly Burke
Published by Audible Originals
Publication Date August 1st 2019
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Listening Length: 3 hours and 5 minutes
In an audiobook like none you’ve ever heard before, blind YouTube star Molly Burke speaks with authenticity and candor about being a purple-haired, pink-loving fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world.
Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, Burke has been legally blind since age five, and became completely sightless as a teenager. Here, she tackles the preconceived notions we have around blindness, her struggles with bullying and anxiety, inclusivity, how she built her successful influencer business (with over 1.8 million followers), and what it’s really like to travel the globe with her service dog, Gallop, now that everyone has an emotional support animal. (Hint: Really hard!)
This is a beautifully voiced, honest, and rousing journey of a young woman who has made it her mission to make us see her and the disability community in a totally new way.

Review

Molly Burke’s memoir is uplifting and informative.  I liked that Molly mainly put the focus on herself rather than her disability.  As a disabled person, (cerebral palsy) I also found myself nodding along as so much of what she said applies to all people with differences.   I find memoirs so hard to review as I feel like I’m critiquing that person’s life experience.  Therefore, I’ll keep it short.

• Molly’s spunk and matter-of-fact attitude is what drove the book.
• I also enjoyed that she narrated it as I don’t think anyone else could have captured it the way she did.
• Being able to follow Molly’s journey is the highlight and what I most enjoyed about this novella.

Which brings me to.

Molly is a person who just happens to have retinitis pigmentosa and,she is someone I’d love to get a cup of coffee with.

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