I was Told it would get easier

“The Beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

Kids, inevitably they grow up. But before they do, they leave that cute cuddly phase and enter the eye rolling, talking back, pushing the limits phase which occurs right before flexing their wings and leaving home. In this book, successful attorney and single mother, Jessica is looking forward to the college tour she and her daughter are about to embark on. She hopes that they will do some bonding, spend special moments together while her daughter decides where she wants to go to college. For Emily, the college tour is about deciding where she wants to go to college while (insert eye roll) she has to spend time with her Mother who is a successful attorney who is glued to her phone and seems to have more time for the woman she mentors than for her own child.

Once the college tour begins, they are thrown in with strangers and a familiar mother daughter duo who neither Jessica or Emily or too thrilled to see. But one of them has a secret and while visiting colleges, getting into tiffs, some Kvetching, and eye rolling, the two manage to visit family, get work done, make new friends, and in the end learns some truths about each other.

Abbi Waxman blew me away with The Bookish Life of Nina Hill and I went into this book with very high hopes. Perhaps my hopes were a tad too high. This book was just missing that little bit of something which would have made the book more enjoyable for me. Nevertheless, I enjoyed how she portrayed Jessica and Emily’s relationship. Both had her own issues going into the college tour. I enjoyed their back and forth and reading each’s thoughts about their interactions and motivations. Their relationship felt realistic and believable.

I found this to be an enjoyable light read. Well written, nicely paced and realistic.

I received a copy of this book from Berkley Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.