She talks about her incompatibility with her husband but only gives one example from her honeymoon, a story that wasn’t powerful enough to represent her point. Gay did a good job selecting moments of her life to illustrate her arguments, except when it came to her marriage. And humans always tend to paint themselves in, if not the best light, then at least a more flattering one. I feel that every memoir must be taken with a grain of salt because they are, by nature, only one side of a story. Some reviewers have complained that she is “playing the victim,” but I thought she was in line with every other celebrity memoir I’ve read. She uses an overabundance of pop culture references and she has a tendency toward repetition, especially when she is trying to make a point. I thought Gay was a pretty good writer for an amateur. In her memoir, Gay discusses her faith journey and her departure from the LDS faith.įirst off, let’s talk about the quality of the memoir. Utah businesswoman and reality star Heather Gay was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but publicly left the religion during the first season of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. I’m not here to tell you how I felt about the book but to give you an idea about how you’ll likely feel reading Bad Mormon.

I will not be giving a star rating for this book. However, as a professional book reviewer who attended BYU and has lived in Utah for over a decade, I feel uniquely qualified to give a fair review of Heather Gay’s bestselling memoir.

I have no desire to talk about religion on my blog, so I debated if I should even attempt to review Bad Mormon.

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