gerda7's review
3.0
A quick read. Enjoyable. I cared about what happened to all the characters, written in a very easy to read style. Lovely, quick, sitting in the sun read.
annabella82's review
2.0
This was a really quick read...
It was an interesting concept and I was intrigued at the beginning, but the book lost me somewhere along the way (the ending was a little predictable).
I think it was how the mothers in the novel come across. They wait until their sons are in their 30's until they decide to meddle in their lives and feel the need to "learn" more about them. I just felt a growing annoyance with them the more I read. Meh.
It was an interesting concept and I was intrigued at the beginning, but the book lost me somewhere along the way (the ending was a little predictable).
I think it was how the mothers in the novel come across. They wait until their sons are in their 30's until they decide to meddle in their lives and feel the need to "learn" more about them. I just felt a growing annoyance with them the more I read. Meh.
crizzle's review
3.0
Some of this was really good (some great descriptive lines, I had to read some phrasing again because it was delightful) and some of it wasn’t my cup of tea (because we’re in England!), so three stars. I loved the focus on the relationships between middle-aged mothers and their adult sons. Three besties are forgotten on Mother’s Day and decide to impose themselves in the lives of their 34-year-old sons for a week. Of course, they set out to hopefully help and/or change their sons in some way, but they each come to terms with learning who this person is, learning about his life, loving him regardless. I love the circle-of-life ending.
m3l89's review
4.0
I really enjoyed this, until it got to the end. I didn't like the 'One year later' bit at the end; it didn't feel right and it didn't feel like it fit with the rest of the novel.
bookgirlnadine's review
4.0
Simultaneously funny and pathetic. This book had me laughing. Light-hearted and hopefully totally untrue, it was a fun glimpse at the mother-son dynamic.
thursdaymouse's review
1.0
I didn't feel satisfied after I read this book. THere were things that were unfinished.
bymilicas's review against another edition
3.0
U centru ove priče imamo 3 majke i 3 sina. Majke su rešile da posete svoje sinove, koji su već u tridesetim godinama i upoznaju ih bolje. Deluje da nemaju skladan život, niti brak, decu ili odgovarajući posao. Moram da priznam da su me svi likovi nervirali do pred kraj, ali knjiga je tako i zamišljena, da bi se naglasila suština. Priča je do kraja okej, kraj je takođe mogao da bude odrađen malo bolje, kao da je zbrzano sve. Sve u svemu, jedna korektna priča za plažu ili opuštanje.
amanda_fyi's review
2.0
I usually don't finish books I'm not a big fan of, but I was hopeful this book would turn it around. There was room for a lot of potential, but the author never really took off with it. The premise is cute: three moms go and live with their sons in their mid 30s for a week (announced) in order to connect with their sons. I feel the characters never really developed for me, and I didn't really care how any of their stories ended. Apparently it's a Netflix series called "Otherhood", which I am still going to watch because I think it could have the potential to be a cute show.
Okay, now here comes my spoilers for why I really wasn't a fan of this book:
Also, Matt was a stereotypical, insufferable, alpha male douche bag, working for the equivalent of working for Maxim. He showed zero development and his story line ends with "yup, nothing changed whatsoever". Like, did the author run out of steam with where his story should go!?
Anyways, I wouldn't recommend this book. Save your time, energy, and money. I'm glad it was borrowed from the library so the only thing I'm out is four hours of my life from reading this book.
Okay, now here comes my spoilers for why I really wasn't a fan of this book:
Spoiler
Am I really suppose to believe a dude becomes a sperm donor, his mom INSISTS its his child, she meets the child by staging a run in, and in the end, he gets a relationship with the kid?! REALLY?! Come on now, it made the mother insufferable that she would cross boundaries to that extreme and then the author had it all come out in the wash in the end as a happy little miracle. PUH-LEASE. The relationship he was to have with the child was established at the beginning, and in my opinion, it was just awful his mom forced the boundaries to cross, and awful the author made it such a HaPpY MirAcLe tHaT iT wAs HiS DaUghTer alL aLoNg.Also, Matt was a stereotypical, insufferable, alpha male douche bag, working for the equivalent of working for Maxim. He showed zero development and his story line ends with "yup, nothing changed whatsoever". Like, did the author run out of steam with where his story should go!?
Anyways, I wouldn't recommend this book. Save your time, energy, and money. I'm glad it was borrowed from the library so the only thing I'm out is four hours of my life from reading this book.