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The Wife App by Carolyn Mackler
3.0
Thanks to Simon Books for this #FreeGift arc in exchange for a fair review!
This book was just fine — I gotta admit, I thought it was going to be a little more queer, so my first impression was slight disappointment that I was reading yet another straight romance-adjacent novel. I also wasn't a huge fan of the main characters until they started to grow on me about halfway through. On the whole, I thought the writing could use another editing pass to sharpen and elevate the prose — it currently reads closer to a YA style, which makes sense given Mackler's work in the genre. I will say, though, that I really related to a lot of the conversations our main characters had related to mental load, so if that's a topic you're into, you might like this quick read!
This book was just fine — I gotta admit, I thought it was going to be a little more queer, so my first impression was slight disappointment that I was reading yet another straight romance-adjacent novel. I also wasn't a huge fan of the main characters until they started to grow on me about halfway through. On the whole, I thought the writing could use another editing pass to sharpen and elevate the prose — it currently reads closer to a YA style, which makes sense given Mackler's work in the genre. I will say, though, that I really related to a lot of the conversations our main characters had related to mental load, so if that's a topic you're into, you might like this quick read!