Your Perfect Life
Books | Fiction / Women
3.6
Liz Fenton
Lisa Steinke
Two childhood best friends wake up the morning after their twentieth high school reunion to discover that they’ve switched bodies in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by two childhood best friends.Best friends since childhood, Casey and Rachel couldn’t lead more different lives. While workaholic Casey rubs elbows with celebrities daily as the host of Gossip TV and comes home nightly to an empty apartment, stay-at-home mom Rachel juggles an “oops” baby, two fiery teenagers, and a husband who barely seems the man she fell in love with two decades before. After an argument at their twentieth high school reunion, Casey and Rachel throw back shots to get the night back on track. Instead, they get a life-changing hangover. Waking up in each other’s bodies the next morning, they must figure out how to navigate their altered realities. Rachel is forced to face the broadcasting dreams she gave up when she got pregnant in college, and Casey finally steps out of the spotlight to face the real reason why she’s alone. And they soon discover that they don’t know themselves—or their best friend—nearly as well as they thought they did. Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke bring their “witty, winning style” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Best of Us) to every page of this novel that is sure to please fans of In Her Shoes and The Opposite of Me. Your Perfect Life is a story of humor and heart about two best friends, what they didn’t know about each other, and how, by switching lives, each learns to appreciate her own.
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Author
Liz Fenton
Pages
304
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2014-06-10
ISBN
147673058X 9781476730585
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"We see people everyday and assume that their lives are better than yours. Looks can be deceiving. "
Lea
"I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads in exchange for my honest review. <br/><br/>I kind of wish I could give half-star reviews. If I could this would be a firm 3.5 stars for me, not exactly four but better than average. <br/><br/>Altogether, I found the book to be entertaining. It's a story of two women, one dedicated to her career and the other to her family, best friends for years. At their twentieth high school reunion, they each down a shot together after a small argument and awaken the next morning to find that they have switched bodies. Now they have to navigate each other's lives until they find the way to switch back.<br/><br/>I enjoyed just how different the womens' lives were. I'm firmly in Casey's camp right now so I can understand her take on life better than I can Rachel's and I actually saw myself reacting the exact way Casey did when faced with the prospect of suddenly having a family thrust into your lap to take care of. Likewise, the authors also did a great job of conveying how intimidating it can be to step out into the limelight of a career abandoned early on. But I did find myself liking both characters and feeling involved in their family/career lives. I also enjoyed the supporting characters and their conflicts, how they were all intertwined with the main characters and how the issues of life slowly came to the surface as the book progressed.<br/><br/>The only thing that sometimes got to me was the way the two main characters sometimes snipped at each other. I don't think I've ever spoken to a best friend the way they spoke to each other when they were angry and it would jar me a bit while reading. Besides that I liked the book very much and would absolutely recommend it for others to read."
Day Zee