A review by amanda_fyi
Whatever Makes You Happy by William Sutcliffe
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.