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STORY (romance) – I loved this story, but I will qualify that by saying that I can really identify with the main character. It\’s about a woman in her 40\’s (Alice) who undergoes a makeover, passes for 20-something, and finds a new young lover and new promising career. I\’m not in that same situation, but I think this book would apply to many women who are older and are looking back at their lives, seeing their mistakes and wishing they\’d done some things differently. In this case Alice gets a second chance. I enjoyed her experiences and cringed at some of her predicaments but, most of all, I totally fell for Josh. If I could do things over again, I\’d want someone just like him! Smart, sexy, sensitive, adoring…perfect. I must admit he\’s probably why I liked the book so much! So now for what the book isn\’t. It Isn\’t like the cover art which suggests three giggling girls taking a selfie. It has more substance. It isn\’t hilarious as Audible\’s summary suggests. I didn\’t really find anything funny about it. It\’s chick lit about a woman who has gone through a divorce, has a grown daughter and is taking time to find herself…in a pretty unusual manner. I enjoyed everything, even the bitchy women that Alice seems to surround herself with. Apparently the book spawned a TV series, but I haven\’t checked it out. PERFORMANCE – Perfect voice for Alice, and she does a good job. Doesn\’t distinguish between characters or do anything special, however. OVERALL – I\’d recommend definitely for older women who think it might be cool to live vicariously through Alice\’s experiences. Younger women and girls might not have the same perspective. There\’s some non-explicit sex and a mild amount of cursing. No violence.

I watched the TV Land series before I knew this was a book. I am glad I found the series before the book. I enjoy the television show much better. If I had read the book first, I probably would not have given the TV series a chance. Seeing the TV series first helped me visualize the story, but in the book the protagonist and some of her supporting friends and bosses had different names and were written differently than the series. I found that hard to folllow the story in book format because I couldn’t keep the characters straight. I thought the narrator was ok. I tried the book to see how it differs from the show. I am glad I did. I did read this book through the romance package, I am glad I didn’t have to use a credit for it.

I agree with the a lot of the other reviews that the tv show is definitely better because I missed Charles and the love triangle aspect buuuut, had there not been the tv show I would have liked this book just fine. Megan Wolf did an amazing performance and I’ll be looking for additional books narrated by her.

I was hooked from the start. I could definitely identify with Alice. Great read. Wish there was more.

i loved every bit of this story. our narrator needs to watch some pronunciations though.

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