This was some light reading for me after I took my master's degree comprehensive exams. The author is admiring of his subject and treats her sympathetically, keeping a respectful tone when he describes some of her more questionable habits -- she seemed to have some trouble not falling in love with men when she was already married, for example. Sometimes his use of quotes from interviews with Audrey Hepburn or perhaps from her writing are inserted into the narrative a bit awkwardly -- being an academic, I am accustomed to proper citing of sources, so I wondered where the quotations came from.

The author has a habit of finding fault with nearly every movie Hepburn was in, often in ways that seem irrelevant. I found it laughable that he judged Paris--When It Sizzles to be a superior movie to Breakfast at Tiffany's.

The early chapters that detail Hepburn's experiences in WWII and later chapters that detail Hepburn's involvement withe UNICEF show both the source and results of her humanitarianism and kindness.