A review by rachelrreads
The Wife App by Carolyn Mackler

2.0

This was okay. I read some of Carolyn Mackler's YA novels in middle school so it was funny to revisit her now as an adult. This was easy reading, and Mackler reinforces that working mothers in modern society are expected to do it all — work and run the household — and that mental load is exhausting. The titular Wife App tries to solve for the mental load of modern motherhood by allowing parents to offload household tasks to hired help. It's clever, but the story itself was predictable and tied up with a neat little bow. Mackler isn't trodding any new territory with the concept, characters, and plot lines.