Author: Cat Shook

Genre: Humor & Satire/General Fiction

Publication Date: July 9, 2024 

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ 💫(3.5/5)

Presley Fry works on a late night show, looking for the next new stand-up comedian who might hit it big. Her life revolves around humor, but lately she isn’t finding much amusing about her own life. She is a twenty-something single living in NYC, but she takes the opposite of a Sex and the City approach when it comes to her dating life.

At first, I found her crush on her co-worker fun, but it got pretty boring and felt like it took too long to resolve itself. Presley’s relationship with her best friend/roommate was the best part of the story, and I honestly liked Isabelle more than her (I think Isabelle deserves her own book). The friendship she strikes up with her mother’s former friend Susan is entertaining, but the entertainment value comes more from Susan than Presley.

I know her relationship with her mother was a huge part of her storyline, and why she was the type of person she was throughout the book, but it didn’t seem like enough of their backstory was shared in detail to make all of the time Presley spent avoiding speaking about her make sense.

There was nothing bad about this book. It was fine… not great, but also not bad. Just an average book that is worthy of a summer read when you don’t want a story that you have to delve too deeply into to keep the storylines and characters straight.

Thank you to NetGalley and Celadon Books for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.