2.5 stars - it was okay. I was definitely disappointed.
My thoughts on why it missed the mark for me-
- For her husband to be okay with her insisting that a magical life-swap had happened... was less than believable. He too easily swallowed the fact that she was having a life-long crazy episode. If that’s the way the author was going to leave it, at least give him proof she wasn’t crazy in the end. Let him witness the magic.
- After all he did for her for her work party (basically moving heaven and earth, which was, naturally, impossible and outside of reality, but for the purposes of this book, HE DID), for her to leave him on his big night was unforgivably selfish. I couldn’t get over it. I don’t care if she isn’t in love with him. I don’t care if she’s confused. I don’t care if her job promotion sort of depended on it. You just don’t do that. Ever. Period.
- I didn’t like the main character. She was never endearing. She wasn’t thoughtful or nice... or even happy. She cried constantly. We only saw her depressive, frustrated times; we rarely saw her being awesome and fun and cool. I was never sold on why or how this amazing guy ever fell in love with her in the first place. Simply put, she was a taker. Her character was extremely self centered and selfish. To top it off, I was so sick of her obsession with her promotion. Clearly she cares about her career more than anything else in her life, including the people around her that cared about her, particularly the sort-of-husband who would (and did) give the shirt off his back for her. I don’t see that commitment changing. I can’t envision her being willing to sacrifice her goals for him and for their relationship and their future family, and that’s simply part of having a healthy marriage relationship.
- The author was going for romcom but I found the banter to be rather forced and unnatural, the sarcastic joking ill placed and smacking of trying-too-hard.
- There were so many editing mistakes. Like tons and tons. Normally this doesn’t bother me. But this was more than average. There would be a conversation going on and then it would be the wrong person talking suddenly, like the author got mixed up. Or there would be words out of order or missing words in a sentence. Stuff like that.
- Basically I felt like this was a book about a girl who was not satisfied with any aspect of her life because she felt like a victim of poor circumstance and bad luck. Then in a magical second chance, she proceeds to break her amazing husband’s heart over and over and over, and take-take-take while he gives-gives-gives... until he is just a shell of himself. Then... Well, if you want to know how it ends, I better just let you read it yourself. But I personally didn’t think it was that great so, your call.
Content:
Language - no swearing or blasphemy.
Sex - no sex or talk of sex.
Cover - meh.
I read this on KU. I haven't read the others in the series because I heard this could be a standalone, and it was. I didn't feel clueless at all.