Helpful Score: 3
I love Jen Lancaster's writing. Her style is fantastic and everything she writes is hilarious (in my opinion, anyway).
This is her first foray into fiction and she nailed it. It's super funny and such typical Jen.
This is her first foray into fiction and she nailed it. It's super funny and such typical Jen.
Helpful Score: 2
What a bummer this was. I love Jen's memoirs and blogging, but it just didn't translate to fiction. The episodes she recreates in her memoirs are funny because it's hard to believe they actually happened. The episodes in this novel aren't funny because it's hard to believe they could happen. The punch lines are redundant and the gags don't work. Disappointing and dull.
Helpful Score: 2
I have read all of Jen Lancaster's books. This was by far my least favorite. It is supposed to be a fictional novel, but she basically wrote about herself and her husband and friends and pets in a fictional setting. I found this very distracting. The main characters just came across as dim-witted so it was extremely hard to care about the plot, which ended quite absurdly. Overall, I was quite disappointed.
Helpful Score: 2
If you know anything about Jen Lancaster or have read any of her other non-fiction books you will enjoy this! The book itself is about Mia and Mac, a husband and wife couple who buy a home that has more than a few problems. Written in typical Jen Lancaster style, with funny footnotes, a house full of dogs and cats, and a main character who just happens to be an up and coming author. This book was so similar to Jen's memoirs that I completely forgot I was reading a work of fiction.
