A review by mommytaco
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
This book was not worth the three months waiting on the hold list at the library. It's like 100% upper middle class white woman wish fulfillment, like Twilight for mothers. You can't even suspend disbelief, you have to put it in a package, take it to the post office, mail it to a remote Alaskan township, and leave it there until summer time because nothing in this book is even close to realistic or making sense. This is one of those books about motherhood that made me immediately check and see if the author actually had children because it was so unrealistic. She is a full-time author yet has a full-time nanny yet has no time to write? Her douchebag ex-husband and his new girlfriend want nothing to do with the children and yet also want full custody? And if she has full custody and he's hella Rich then why isn't he paying any kind of child support or alimony? Is her divorce still technically pending? Then why is her lawyer sending her invoices? Why doesn't she get on Medicaid or use any kind of government assistance if she's so poor she's literally selling furniture online? Her kid cuts her own hair and she uses duct tape to fix it? Has she never spent time with her own children? She can't just get a fucking job? Despite the fact that mufflers are specifically designed to not produce CO2 her car somehow manages to kill a dude because she left him in it for a half hour? She's trying to solve a crime and do all this other shit with kids that are miraculously not in her way even though her cliched frazzled motherhood is the entire goddamn plot? She somehow has a preschooler that talks like a 6-year-old and a 2 year old that is basically a 6 month old baby? And every single dude wants to bone her after seeing her for 8 seconds! And what in the ever loving fuck is a wig scarf?? And why wouldn't you tell a woman that a man is trying to drug and rape her!?!?!?!? Is this your first day being a person? I just couldn't. Fuck this chick.
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