Title - Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventure and Cautionary Tales of Former Playboy Bunny
Author - Holly Madison
Genre - Biography/Memoir
Published - June 23rd 2015
Publisher - Dey Street Books
Format - Kindle
A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a fairytale of A-list celebrity parties to an oppressive regime of strict rules, scheduled sex, and a total loss of identity, so much so that she even contemplated suicide.
Review
Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary
Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny is my first non-friction since high school. I’m
not sure how to review of biography so I’m just going to wing it.
Holly Madison gives a detailed yet starting account of her
time at the playboy mansion shedding the illusion of that everyone has about
the mansion. She shares her personal experiences revealing that life at the
mansion was anything but glamour’s she was but one of seven blondes in Hef’s
collection of girlfriends. Slowly outlasting till it was just down to three of
them but even than things didn’t get better to the point where she had enough
and ended it. She shares her life experiences that changed her life molding her
into the woman she is today.
I watched every season of the Girls Next Door but Holly was
always my favorite she was just so interesting to watch. So when I saw she
wrote a biography of her time in the mansion I had to give it a shot. Wow I
figured it wasn’t all rainbows but never expected Hef to be so controlling,
from keeping them on a short leash to even controlling their money, and when
they can leave the mansion. It’s honestly disturbing what she went through just
to survive but she did and came out a better person.
I liked Holly before the book and after I just adore her
even more. She’s one of those people who’s had the tragic past and reinvented
herself into who she wanted to be. It was interesting seeing the other
characters that I was familiar with as well as many I wasn’t. I liked seeing a
little bit of Bridgett and Kendra but clearly her time in the mansion didn’t
help her either.
I’m honestly shocked at how well written Down the Rabbit
Hole is. She did a beautiful job creating a captivating detailed recount of her
experiences inside and outside the mansion. I honestly enjoyed reading the book
way more than I expected this part of her life was very shocking because I
always assumed everything was so fantasy land but it clearly wasn’t. I can’t
imagine spending all that time in the mansion feeling like she did it’s
heartbreaking. However she did realize that she deserves better and worked hard
to reinvent herself which I think is awesome. Down the Rabbit Hole is a fast
paced novel that I had a hard time putting down it’s just WOW! I can’t emphasis
this enough it’s just so beautifully written that it flows from start to finish.
High recommend checking out it’s a very interesting read. My only regret was getting the ebook should have gotten the Hardcover and I may still have too.
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