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She Makes It Look Easy (2011)

by Marybeth Whalen(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0781403707 (ISBN13: 9780781403702)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

David C. Cook

review 1: Ariel is the harried mother of three active little boys. Her husband's job keeps him away often and she tends to feel as if she's barely holding things together on the home front. She can't help feeling her disorganisation and casual, eclectic lifestyle is inferior to that of her beautiful neighbour, Justine, who seems to manage her young family with a finesse Ariel could never pull off. Little does she realise, Justine is harboring a secret and nothing is as it appears.The author did well at helping readers to understand that assessing our own lives, which we know inside out, to those of others, which we only see the surface of, is pointless. Ariel's life with her three lovely sons and husband, David, was shown to have everything that made life worthwhile.I was disappoint... moreed that a character I'd come to feel compassion for was swept aside by the author as if his feelings were of no consequence at all. This was Justine's husband, Mark. He never reappeared in the story when his wife's choice was revealed, as if he didn't matter. And Tom Dean, the catalyst of her bad decision, irked me too. If I could've seen something in him similar to what Justine saw, her dilemma would have been easier to understand. As it was, his character just seemed sleazy and predatory, making it more of a shallow read than it might have been if we'd been able to understand her quandary.However, it was an easy read which I got through quite quickly.
review 2: She makes it look easy - that's just what I think when I'm surrounded by all of these perfect Pinterest-loving mamas. So this book seemed like a natural choice to me. The book is written in the perspective of two ladies (Ms. Perfect and Ms. Chaos essentially). As the book begins, I could relate to the chaotic character who is yearning to get it all together and begins taking notes her perfect neighbor. However, the book begins to take a different theme as it continues. The perfect character begins her own "imperfect" decisions, which then becomes the new theme of the book. Ok, so it wasn't terrible, although it wasn't what I was expecting when I ordered the book. But I was going to finish it.The characters continue down their paths, Ms. Chaos idolizing the woman who seems to have it all together and Ms. Perfect, who is living a secret life. As the book nears the end, you start to hope for some redeeming moment from Ms. Perfect, only to be disappointed. Not only that, but the ending is weak. Many details that most women would want to know are left unsaid.All in all, I felt like I pushed myself to finish this book simply for the sake of finishing, only to feel like the last 20 pages were missing. It was an ok read, but it definitely will not make the re-read list. less

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