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A review by beate251
Claire Casey's Had Enough by Liz Alterman
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
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
3.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Severn House for this ARC.
Claire, 46, mother of 3 (4 if you count the useless husband) has had enough. She writes articles for a parenting website and has once written a children's book but feels she is stagnating. So she decides to re-evaluate her life but is the grass really greener elsewhere?
I had some intense deja vu moments with this book. Especially the head lice infection and the linguini on lap incident sounded incredibly familiar, so either I'm a time traveller or I have read this story or parts of it somewhere before.
Unfortunately, I didn't connect with the writing style. The action takes place over one day, 4 September 2024, but with flashbacks to May and July of the same year and to 1999. This makes it disjointed and confusing, plus that day seemed to go on forever. It's ridiculous all the stuff she has to deal with and that goes wrong within the space of a day. The events were either funny or infuriating, like a day in the life of a working mother, but on steroids. I liked the personal growth in some characters, and her neighbour Bea who was quite with the times for her advanced age. Read if you like chaotic mom-coms.
Claire, 46, mother of 3 (4 if you count the useless husband) has had enough. She writes articles for a parenting website and has once written a children's book but feels she is stagnating. So she decides to re-evaluate her life but is the grass really greener elsewhere?
I had some intense deja vu moments with this book. Especially the head lice infection and the linguini on lap incident sounded incredibly familiar, so either I'm a time traveller or I have read this story or parts of it somewhere before.
Unfortunately, I didn't connect with the writing style. The action takes place over one day, 4 September 2024, but with flashbacks to May and July of the same year and to 1999. This makes it disjointed and confusing, plus that day seemed to go on forever. It's ridiculous all the stuff she has to deal with and that goes wrong within the space of a day. The events were either funny or infuriating, like a day in the life of a working mother, but on steroids. I liked the personal growth in some characters, and her neighbour Bea who was quite with the times for her advanced age. Read if you like chaotic mom-coms.