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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
The Diary of a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Alcoholic follows Elli Rose Cikovic as alcohol becomes the fixed driver of her decisions from adolescence into adult life. After starting to drink in her teens, she began experiencing recurring blackouts that reshaped how she moved through school, relationships, and independence. College in Colorado brings a new setting and a tight bond with Fiona, cemented by constant drinking, memory gaps, and escalating risks. Cikovic keeps functioning on the surface while the pattern repeats through her time abroad and later work in Atlanta, where the isolation makes drinking easier to sustain. After years of waking up to missing hours and managing what happened while she cannot remember, a final night ends the cycle, and she begins a new chapter.
The Diary of a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Alcoholic is intense, and Elli Rose Cikovic lays it all out for readers in her courageously candid memoir. As a woman, and especially as a mother, I was really distraught over a lot of what Cikovic shares, particularly concerning the exploitation she faced in her youth during the blackouts. These unfold when all the past harm surfaces through writing that records the events as her memory returns. Cikovic's style of writing is blunt and conversational, and suits the journey she puts on the page. As she begins to claw back control, her commitment to continued therapy and daily writing is the very thing that makes this memoir compelling. This is the perfect book for readers who enjoy memoirs that inspire, readers considering sobriety, and those drawn to honest accounts of recovery. Very highly recommended.
