Book Review: My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Random
House Publishing Group – Random House
The Dial
Press
Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another. You post
something to one of your social media accounts to try to make your life look
better than it really is. You use an Instagram filter or Photoshop to make a
picture look good. You brag about a delicious meal that you ate when in reality
it wasn’t really yours. You post about your picture perfect life despite the
fact that the washer flooded the house and your kids have explosive diarrhea.
Little white lies that make your life look better than it
really is and for a time make you feel better. Katie Brenner does that in this
book. She makes her job and social life look glamorous when she’s actually
really lonely and a peon at her job. She models her social media presence after
her boss’s life, not knowing that her boss isn’t as perfect as she seems.
How things look are not always how they are in real life.
Some people forget that. Katie spends so much time trying to erase her life as
a farm girl that she misses out on any real emotion. Things start looking good
for her when her boss and a hot guy take an interest in her but that quickly
falls apart. Her boss fires her and the romance turns out to be nothing more
than a fantasy. She soon returns to her boring farm life and the father that
she has been trying to desperately to make proud.
Not a lot more can be revealed without spoiling the book but
let me say that parts of the story really had me laughing out loud. I got
strange looks from my future spouse. Katie, who was a little bit whiny and
annoying in the beginning soon find her footing and makes you root for her.
The ending. Again, without spoilers, the author could have
taken the easy and predictable way out and tie everything up with a pretty bow.
She didn’t and that was a pleasant surprise for me. It actually made me crack a smile.
This book was a pleasure for me to read.
I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review.
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