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Title: Has Anyone Seen My Sex Life?
Author: Kristen Bailey
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Bookouture
Publication Date: 14th February 2020
Rating: 4 Stars
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It’s normal for your washing machine to get more action than you, right?
I wake up, bleary-eyed. It’s been two years, six months and three hours since I last shaved my legs, and the llama-patterned knickers I’m wearing have seen better days.
We have seven minutes before the kids wake up, and my husband shuffles closer. ‘Ouch,’ he says, a piece of Lego sticking into his back.
Then, a light comes on in the landing. Small footsteps creep down the stairs. A little voice screams, ‘IS SOMEONE COMING TO MAKE BREAKFAST?!’
All hope of having some ‘alone time’ is replaced with wondering if we’ve run out of Cheerios, thinking about the overflowing laundry, and remembering that I forgot to take out the recycling. Again.
Just a typical Monday morning for the Morton family…
Except today, when I go downstairs in my dressing gown, I find something. Something belonging to my husband. Something that definitely wasn’t in the wedding vows. And it’s either going to make us… or break us.
I wake up, bleary-eyed. It’s been two years, six months and three hours since I last shaved my legs, and the llama-patterned knickers I’m wearing have seen better days.
We have seven minutes before the kids wake up, and my husband shuffles closer. ‘Ouch,’ he says, a piece of Lego sticking into his back.
Then, a light comes on in the landing. Small footsteps creep down the stairs. A little voice screams, ‘IS SOMEONE COMING TO MAKE BREAKFAST?!’
All hope of having some ‘alone time’ is replaced with wondering if we’ve run out of Cheerios, thinking about the overflowing laundry, and remembering that I forgot to take out the recycling. Again.
Just a typical Monday morning for the Morton family…
Except today, when I go downstairs in my dressing gown, I find something. Something belonging to my husband. Something that definitely wasn’t in the wedding vows. And it’s either going to make us… or break us.
Original, funny and full of incredibly realistic characters.
Oh and the big secret, which is triggered by well not your regular contents of a parcel when you are a married couple with three children, which catapults Meg into wondering just what her husband is up to.
Well she jumps to the most logical conclusion and I'm delighted to say she was incredibly wrong and the truth of it, and what is at the heart of a large part of this book is fabulous.
But because I don't want to reveal just what it is Danny is hiding, even though its revealed quite early in the book, as I think it is far more fun to come across it naturally in the book - the resulting story is rather unique and quite unlike anything else I've read for a while.
I would say though that if you are on the prudish side, or not that open minded when it comes to more intimate matters, that this possibly isn't the book for you.
Thankfully I love all of that sort of thing in books, and thoroughly enjoyed the story.
So many of the authors observations were spot on, and the whole arrange of characters were just really realistic. I loved Meg's children, Danny's brother Stu. Then there is an incident with the school headmaster that is rather eye opening and hilarious. Oh and the scene leading up to some police presence was great, and that moment at Meg's work where various parts of her life may have been about to collide had me gasping and reaching eagerly for the next chapter!
There is also a lot about the great North / South divide in the UK, like Meg, I'm a Londoner, and as such a lot of the northern slang being bandied about, well I probably should have googled to check my understanding was right! While at the same time I was nodding, knowing just how true it all was, and it just added another level of authenticity to the book.
Kristen Bailey is clearly a shining light in rom com writing and I know I'm looking forward to seeing what she writes next. A truly enjoyable and memorable reading experience, oh and this is definitely an author that can write a good sex scene.
Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
Please do take a look at all the other wonderful bloggers on this tour.
Oh and the big secret, which is triggered by well not your regular contents of a parcel when you are a married couple with three children, which catapults Meg into wondering just what her husband is up to.
Well she jumps to the most logical conclusion and I'm delighted to say she was incredibly wrong and the truth of it, and what is at the heart of a large part of this book is fabulous.
But because I don't want to reveal just what it is Danny is hiding, even though its revealed quite early in the book, as I think it is far more fun to come across it naturally in the book - the resulting story is rather unique and quite unlike anything else I've read for a while.
I would say though that if you are on the prudish side, or not that open minded when it comes to more intimate matters, that this possibly isn't the book for you.
Thankfully I love all of that sort of thing in books, and thoroughly enjoyed the story.
So many of the authors observations were spot on, and the whole arrange of characters were just really realistic. I loved Meg's children, Danny's brother Stu. Then there is an incident with the school headmaster that is rather eye opening and hilarious. Oh and the scene leading up to some police presence was great, and that moment at Meg's work where various parts of her life may have been about to collide had me gasping and reaching eagerly for the next chapter!
There is also a lot about the great North / South divide in the UK, like Meg, I'm a Londoner, and as such a lot of the northern slang being bandied about, well I probably should have googled to check my understanding was right! While at the same time I was nodding, knowing just how true it all was, and it just added another level of authenticity to the book.
Kristen Bailey is clearly a shining light in rom com writing and I know I'm looking forward to seeing what she writes next. A truly enjoyable and memorable reading experience, oh and this is definitely an author that can write a good sex scene.
Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
Please do take a look at all the other wonderful bloggers on this tour.
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