The other day, a colleague who read Just So You Know emailed me her review, which she has also shared on social media. I wanted to share it here as well.

From Adrienne Pond, of Lost Art Editing:

You know THE book that changed everything you ever understood about the world, about your goals and their reasoning, about what matters, about your beliefs about anyone who is not you and the you before you read THE book? THE book you thought had no match? THE book that made you a better person? 
 
Just So You Know is the book that matches all of THE books, and stretches beyond. 
 
I want to tell everyone to strap in because “apparently there is no end to the number of times your heart can be ripped loose” and that’s exactly what Jennifer’s and Jessica’s individual and together journeys do, along with rewarding us for staying.

Just So You Know is a masterpiece of whatever power that surpasses the best humanity can do and be. It’s a beautiful and wild and fierce and heart-squeezing adventure of love building a new realm after the world asks too much and tears whatever was previous asunder.
 
Just So You Know is a journey to the center of the earth, possible because the gatekeepers—whose job it was to keep us from going where the Before Us knew we could never survive—simply walked off the job. And surviving became the only choice. Jennifer and Jessica show us surviving and thriving on a rollercoaster of uncertainty and love and joy and dread and fear and pain and unexpected blows and the nature of a now young-woman Jessica who knocks me off my equilibrium in awe.
 
There aren’t enough thank yous in the world to offer Jennifer Lawler and Jessica and Jennifer’s ability to make markers and bridges in their journeys visible to outsiders. She is a master with words.
 
The word fierce is so often misunderstood, I think. It has many denotations and from these a larger lot of connotations. For me, from me, it is a high compliment.

Jessica’s body and personality are fierce in a primitive and gorgeous desire to live.
Jennifer is fierce in her … well, everything.

Their fierceness—though from different origins and showing up in different ways—will leave indelible markers—making you better. Just So You Know is their gift to us. Take it. It’s the gift you didn’t know you needed, and once opened, the one you can’t live well without.

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Jennifer Lawler has been a writer-editor for more than twenty-five years and has published more than forty novels and nonfiction books. She is the founder of the online education company Club Ed LLC.