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The Seven Day Switch by Kelly Harms

mythicmaddnes's review

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1.0

DFN wasn't holding my attention

thaiteconta's review against another edition

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4.0

The Seven Day Switch é o que chamo de limpador de paladar leve e fofo. Esta foi minha primeira experiência com um livro da Kelly Harms e foi uma leitura deliciosamente divertida e bem trabalhada. Eu adorei seu humor inteligente e seu sarcasmo. A escrita é fácil de entender e o romance feminino bem-humorado cobre várias tropes com drama familiar, troca de corpo, culpa de mãe, infidelidade e guerras parentais suburbanas que deram errado.

Todos os personagens são bem texturizados e com várias camadas, mas tive dificuldade em gostar de uma das personagens principais: Wendy. Durante a maior parte do livro ela era bastante ácida, irritada, crítica e muito rude com a Celeste. Ela começa bastante complicada, mas felizmente se salva no final.

Mesmo que a premissa fosse um pouco fantasiosa e fora dos meus hábitos típicos de leitura, eu gostei muito desse livro. Os dilemas das mulheres me mantiveram bem entretida. Gostei que o livro mostra que não existe uma maneira correta de ser uma figura parental e que todos estão apenas fazendo o melhor que podem com o que têm. Também amo o tema de mulheres apoiando e aprendendo com outras mulheres.

Se tivesse que acrescentar algo, eu diria que falta diversidade. Ambas as personagens principais estão em situações privilegiadas de classe média, então não há um ajuste realmente em termos de raça ou classe socioeconômica. Não é uma coisa ruim, mas acho que a história poderia ter tido mais efeito se elas fossem mais diferentes do que a mãe que trabalha e fica em casa.

Gostei do humor inserido na história e de como cada uma delas pensava que estava apoiando a outra, fosse verdade ou não. Certamente gostei que a história não incluísse um sermão oculto sobre parentalidade. A mensagem final é que, mulheres - especialmente mães - sejam gentis e apoiem umas às outras, em vez de separar umas das outras, criando ressentimento e divisão.

janahain's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

teresaalice's review against another edition

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4.0

What a charming little book. I imagine freaky Friday but for the stay at home versus working mom relationship. What would you think of someone after walking a mile, or a week, in their shoes?

noelliem's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

hellokira's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5 / 5

emc24me's review against another edition

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5.0

Felt like a custom made book just for me.

So very good to read a two-sided story like this that infuses humor to help the truth of the matter go down.

kiminindy's review against another edition

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4.0

So, I didn't think I would like this one but I really did....it has great character development and so many issues we, as women, can relate to.

cathlatte's review against another edition

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funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

christiana's review against another edition

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3.0

This was fun-I like a Freaky Friday body swap, although I did sometimes get a little confused who was talking about whose kids were whose. I kind of wonder if any readers relate to Wendy because like, I felt the busyness, but that was about it.

Also, I don't know what this author was hoping to do with a "curvy" character. It mostly comes up because she never works out (and then we find out
Spoiler her abs are broken?
which felt a little extreme to me. It's ok if she just doesn't make time for herself in that way and The Lesson is that she kind of should. But I don't love that they had a fight where Celeste asks if Wendy is calling her fat and is very upset about it-maybe that wouldn't have bothered me as much if there wasn't also a part of Wendy's speech later where it talks about a pro-bono case where they help an addict get her dream job and among the things it mentioned that she did to turn her life around was "how her posture, her attitude-even her body mass index-changed as a result of these new thoughts and steps". Like, please stop. It felt like the assumption was the only reason someone would ever be overweight is because they are not being productive enough with their time or that the real way to know you are improving your life and getting more out of it is by losing weight and that was kind of gross.

Also, where do these people live? I thought it was in the South but then there's a point where someone mentions a Chicago Med medical degree while in the hospital (but also neither of them are in the medical field?). Minor detail, but not what you want to stick with you about a story.