Mamrie Hart describes herself as “a drinking star with a
YouTube problem,” and this does indeed appear to be true. Hart is the founder
of the YouTube series You Deserve a Drink,
and she has compiled her best drinking stories into a novel. The book is set up
to be a drinking game and a cocktail recipe starts off each chapter. Every time
she references an old TV show, mentions a food product that can be found at
7-Eleven, or refers to a reproductive organ by a slang term, the reader is
meant to take a swig. With stories ranging from a spring break spent at a gay
nudist resort to celebrating Day of the Dead in Mexico with her friend Maegan,
where a group of swingers mistake them for a lesbian couple, boozy
misadventures abound. As Grace Helbig notes in the forward, “None of what
you’re about to read is exaggerated, fabricated, or G-rated.”
288 pages.
