G. Bianco, 2019
Attention readers: Carolyn Mackler’s new novel, The Wife App (which comes out today) is the book you need to add to your TBR this summer! Brimming with wit, humor, and camaraderie, this book will definitely change the way you view the women in your life. Lauren, mother of twins, wakes up one morning to her Wife Alarm Bells sounding. She sleuths on her husband’s phone and stumbles on a dirty secret that explodes her marriage. Madeline has it all—a penthouse apartment, a perfect daughter, and no-strings-attached romps with handsome men. But when she learns she might lose her child to her ex in England, it stirs up a decades-old personal tragedy. Sophie, with too much FOMO and never enough money, obsesses over her ex-husband’s Family 2.0—all while keeping her true desires hidden, even from herself. It starts as a joke during a tipsy night out, as Lauren, Madeline, and Sophie rail against everything wives do for free. Let’s build an app that monetizes the mental load. And maybe revenge on our exes in the process. Soon, the Wife App is born, and before long, it’s the fastest growing start-up in New York City. But then life intervenes. Love intervenes. Ex-husbands intervene. And the consequences are bigger than anything Lauren, Madeline, or Sophie could have expected. Carolyn Mackler marks her debut into adult fiction with a rollercoaster ride of revenge and redemption that is at once a send-up of modern marriage and a celebration of female friendship and love in all forms. This book has such an interesting concept and I enjoyed this story more than I thought I would! Looking at motherhood and wifehood through the scope of these three different women definitely highlights how every person’s situation and circumstances are different and how tough it is to live your own life when you're constantly concerned about how others perceive you, and even how you perceive yourself. All three of our main characters really flourish throughout this book and I really enjoyed seeing how they take The Wife App and use it to change and reevaluate their lives. I think it just highlights how you’re never too old or too young to change your life! This book also made me respect wives, moms, parents, and spouses with so much more (shout out to my own amazing mom lol!) Overall, I really like this feminism book and how everyone’s journeys and “happy endings” turn out differently. If you’re looking for a binge-able book with strong female characters, then this is the book for you! *I received an ARC from Simon and Schuster in exchange for my honest opinion.
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