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Liked It “Taylor Young had the perfect life. She had a fine-looking husband three beautiful children, and a house that you could only dream about. You could say that Taylor lived the lap of luxury till now. Taylor’s husband shares with her that they are broke. So broke that he informs Taylor that she...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Taylor Young had the perfect life. She had a fine-looking husband three beautiful children, and a house that you could only dream about. You could say that Taylor lived the lap of luxury till now. Taylor’s husband shares with her that they are broke. So broke that he informs Taylor that she should start looking for a…gasp…J_O_B! What is Taylor going to do? She has not worked in a long time. The only thing Taylor is good at is spending money and lots of it.
Cheryl wrote this review Tuesday, January 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Taylor can’t believe they are in this situation. All Taylor knows is that she can’t let any of her friends find out. Taylor ends up find an unlikely friend in her arch nemesis, Marta Zinsser. Soon Taylor is putting away all the designer clothes and getting her hands dirty in the real world.
You would think from the summary that Taylor would be a rich, spoiled diva, which at the beginning Taylor was that was but soon after she turned out to be pretty tolerable. For this I am thankful. If Taylor has stayed a diva the whole way through the story, it would have been hard for me to read. I probably wouldn’t have given this book a chance; except that I read Ms. Porter’s Flirting with Forty and enjoyed it. Plus I am not a big fan of the chick lit books, but hey every once in a while; everyone needs something that lightens the mood from psychopathic serial killers. Mrs. Perfect did just that for me, so for this reason, I say Mrs. Perfect was just that…perfect!
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“I liked this story a lot. Maybe more than the book it's linked to, but maybe just the same, because I liked the earlier Porter book too. Jane Porter's one of those authors I'd really like to hate, because she's totally gorgeous, she has a hot, younger boyfriend (or did a while back, it's been a while since I heard about her personal life), and she writes totally excellent books. But she's too nice to hate, and there are those excellent books. So. This book is a women's fiction novel about just how hard it is to be perfect. The heroine and her husband--who is the hero--have spent their lives striving for perfection, and keeping secrets from each other, and now they've tumbled into trouble. The heroine has made herself into a helicopter mom--a combat helicopter, of sorts. She is uber-organized, volunteers for everything, and devotes her life to her children, her home, and shopping. Hubby comes in somewhere after that, though she does love him. This story is about how hard it is to be perfect, about what happens when the lid over all life's imperfections comes off and how the heroine deals with it and finds her way back to the love of her life and to sanity. Though I have NEVER suffered from helicopter mom syndrome (unlike my own mom, I never threatened my children if they offered up my name as room mother at school-but I was a rather slapdash one...), I somehow identified a lot with the heroine of this story. I wanted to smack her upside the head a time or two for her idiocy, but I liked her anyway. It was a good book.”
Gail Dayton wrote this review Wednesday, November 5 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Wow after Odd Mom Out this was GREAT AS WELL very good at putting the two books together but still being so diffrent LOVED IT MUST READ IT!!”
Tori B wrote this review Saturday, October 11 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Thoroughly enjoyable, yet much darker than what I expected.”
JustVicki wrote this review Thursday, July 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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ScoutLee wrote this review Monday, June 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Great follow-up to "Odd Mom Out". Good reminder that things aren't always what they seem and how exhausting it is to keep up appearances. Taylor Young finally discovers who she really is. 4.5/5
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“what can i say.....expect the unexpected. i recommend this book.”
cagrowngirl wrote this review Sunday, June 15 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“What a gem! This book could have been somewhat autobiographical for me in my first marriage. I appreciated the author reminding us of so many important things about just BEING a woman. I've heard so much of the best one-liners in this book from my best friends. This is an encouraging read for recovering perfectionists. I really want to read it again. I'd like to read it with friends...any takers?”
Regina Erickson wrote this review Friday, June 13 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Loved this book and it was such a quick read. I didn't really care for Taylor in Odd Mom Out, but I'm glad she got the chance to tell her own story and be more human! I found myself looking forward to learning more about her and by the end of the book I loved her!!!”
Meg Munson wrote this review Wednesday, June 11 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I totally loved this book. Odd Mom Out was great and I really loved Marta. In this book you get to see the real Taylor and the character is developed perfectly. This book, to me, is about all the choices we make as women. There is a woman by the name of Lucy in this book that appears to have made a really bad choice but eventually you really understand where she was and how easily that decision was made. Seems a real shame we need to wait until July 2009 for the next Jane Porter book.”
Debbie W wrote this review Friday, May 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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