freaky friday meets ABCs wife swap in this suburban magical realism story.im not married and i dont have kids, so im pretty sure im not in the intended audience for this book, but i could still appreciate the message of the story. i like that it shows there is no one correct way to parent and that everyone is just doing the best they can with what they have. i also like the theme of women supporting and learning from other women. i will say that i wish there was more diversity with the switch. b...

In this corner: Wendy Charles: a mother, wife, and business owner who is running around like a chicken with her head cut off but making it look effortless. What she really is: Utterly exhausted. In this corner: Celeste Mason: stay at home mom, cupcake baking, all organic, Pinterest extraordinaire appears to be living a pampered life. What she really is: Lonely. Enter Mommy Wars. After they both indulge in an evening of Sangria and bitter comments barbed at one another they wake up the next morni...

A new book from Kelly Harms each summer is something I’m getting used to! The Seven Day Switch is about two very different moms switching places. If you’ve seen Freaky Friday, it reminded me a little of that fun movie! This book made me laugh several times, and it’s poignant, too. Celeste and Wendy learn a few lessons along the way, and I loved their growth as characters.This is another fun and warmhearted read by Kelly Harms!I received a gifted copy. Many of my reviews can also be found on my b...

While the book seemed to be trying to make a point about mom-shaming, the only mom who was really shamed was Celeste for being a homemaker. How dare she make healthy food and sew her daughter's clothes and engage her children's minds! Bah! Wendy barely apologized for basically just being hateful 98% of the book but that was fine because she had a terrible husband, I guess. Celeste was never given room to be proud of her choices- the book did make a clumsy attempt to make her proud for wanting to...

The Seven Day Switch is what I call a light and fluffy palate cleanser. It is about two polar opposite moms who end up in a body swap. Celeste is a SAH overachiever mom married to a unicorn husband while Wendy is a successful productivity consultant who has a hectic schedule between work, her kids and her slacker husband. Needless to say, they are as different as night and day.The premise is definitely not original and although I didn't love it, I also didn't dislike it. It was just OK. There is...

When it comes to tropes there are a handful I simply cannot pass up. In particular . . . . Oh how I will read (or watch) anything where the two leads swap bodies. And after having a lot of success with The Overdue Life of Amy Byler I was sure this would be a winner for me too. Unfortunately this release also contained a plotline that I am not a fan of . . . . And the worst part of all? Both of the leading ladies here were assholes. It didn’t matter that one ran a company and one was a st...

There is nothing called perfect parenting. The Seven Day Switch tells the story of two mothers. There's Wendy Charles, a successful businesswoman, mother of two, bringing up her kids more on store-bought foods than home cooked meals, and constantly suffering from mom-guilt and Celeste Mason, a stay-at-home mom of three, living with a loving husband, obsessively cleaning and cooking, has apparently perfected parenting and yet suffers from a sense of insecurity about her future importance in the f...

Favorite Quotes:“Where is Anna Joy?” I ask, the second name poison in my mouth. Anna Joy, for heaven’s sake. She’s not even southern. Where does she get off taking two nice names when there are so few good ones left to choose from in the neighborhood? Because of her greed, some poor newborn is probably going around with the name Bertha-Sue.She hops to it with a team enthusiasm that fills me with pride. Sure, at home she can leave a half-drunk glass of milk on her desk until it’s science-lab mate...

4 super fun chaotic crazy stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟Because I’m not a mom, the whole “Mommy Wars” thing between working moms and stay at home moms isn’t something I know much about. But, I do know this book is laugh out loud funny, heartwarming, and hopefully in a small way a reminder to all moms out there doing the hardest job in the world, that you’re doing great just the way you are! Celeste Mason and Wendy Charles are polar opposite moms and through a Freaky Friday experience caused by artisanal vodka in a

I liked this book but in general it was kind of woman hating even if the message was not to be woman hating. It reads like someone telling a sexist joke and saying geez it's just a joke. We shouldn't be telling those jokes - especially in the kind of book aimed at the people being dunked on. Tired stereotypes and themes. Also... I don't believe the author has ever breastfed a child over the age of one nor do I believe she knows anyone who did.

Freaky Friday re-telling? Say no more. THE SEVEN DAY SWITCH is a quirky story of polar opposite neighbors, Celeste Mason and Wendy Charles. Celeste is a stay at home mother and Pinterest queen while Wendy spends her days climbing the corporate ladder. The mommy wars come to a screeching halt when they switch bodies after drinking mysterious sangria. Lives upended, the women must learn to thrive in their unfamiliar new roles.Although this is a lighthearted story of competitive momming, it does to...

This is not my usual kind of book and I found it to be a fun and interesting until out of nowhere it calls cops racist and violent who would hurt someone with expired license tags just because of the color of their skin. I am tired of politics in everything and it serves no purpose here except to make clear the politics of the author. It was a completely out of place statement in the scene and by the character who used it. I wish I had known this was not just a silly, light read but one full of

Are working moms and stay-at-home moms really so different? Freaky Friday re-telling via Working Mom vs. Stay at Home Mom? Yes Please! I was drawn to this book because of the author and because I have been both a working mom and a stay at home mom and let me tell you...both are hard...very, very hard. Being a mom is hard, raising kids is hard. My two are grown and are thriving members of society and it has nothing to do with whether I stayed home or not. I loved this book becaus

Celeste Mason and Wendy Charles may be neighbours with daughters who are friends, but Celeste and Wendy aren't friends, not at all.Wendy is a stick-thin mother of two and businesswoman, married to a handsome sculptor. Celeste is a stay-at-home mom with three children and a balding husband in insurance. Wendy never has enough hours in the day, her kids are used to eating frozen meals and take-outs, she has an enormous mortgage and resents being mommy-shamed by Celeste. Celeste, on the other hand,...

I loved The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by @kelly.harms and I jumped at the chance to read her upcoming book. The Seven Day Switch is the story of Celeste, a stay at home mom, and Wendy, a working mom with her own business. The two clash from day one. After drinking too much sangria at a neighborhood get together, the pair wakes up the next morning hungover and in each other’s body. Adult Freaky Friday! So many emotions while reading...I laughed and cried and laughed some more! Kelly Harms has wri...

Stay at home mom (SAH) Celeste and business owner/working mom Wendy end up in each other’s bodies after drinking too many sangrias one night. These moms could not be more different, not just in their choice of career, but also in their choice of husbands, child-rearing methods and lifestyle. Celeste bakes cupcakes for every school event, sews her daughter clothes, packs gourmet homemade lunches, cooks healthy dinners every night, keeps chore charts and is signed up for every committee there is.

5 Kindle Unlimited and free on audio with KU. Sometimes you read a book and it just makes you smile, feel good. This authors writing style just speaks to me. She writes about women getting through their everyday lives but in a very humorous way. Makes you feel like you’re not alone in your struggles or pressures we put on ourselves. I put off reading this book because the blurb. I am the worlds worst at this. If I read a blurb I find reasons why I won’t like the book, so the majority of the time...

⭑⭑⭑⭑ 4 stars "He shows me how he cares in a thousand little ways. The problem is, I can never seem to believe he really means it."- Celeste "This is what it is to be a working woman. Take it from me - you can have it all, as long as you don't ever want time to enjoy having it all."- Wendy Celeste is a homemaker, on a mission to provide the perfect childhood to her three kids Zoey, Samuel and Anna Joy. Whilst Wendy is a business entrepreneur, flooded with mum guilt that she doesn't get t

Review to come & if I forget to put one here, look for it on Instagram @mom_loves_reading or my blog (link in profile). I did love this book & recommend it! A super summer read!

Really enjoyed, review to come.

Rounded up to 3 stars for GoodReads. As a mother, I thought I’d love this book and the connections Celeste and Wendy make. However, by the end I felt like the “lesson” we’re learning was way cheesy and super repetitive. The last chapters just droned on and on and on about how nobody has it perfect etc etc. There wasn’t much plot to it… just a lot of stuff happening and a lot of back and forth. Also: attachment parenting and extended breastfeeding shaming almost made me DNF. **I was given an ARC

Thank you Thomas Allen & Sons and Lake Union for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.This book was so good! A lot heavier than I expected it to be, but I mean that in a good way! I loved the main topic of “what makes a good mom” that was explored, and how women put so much pressure on themselves to have it all - a stellar career plus be present with their kids and the perfect mom.I will say, you really have to pay attention when you read this. I know Wendy and Celeste are two very dif...

It took a while to get into this because Harms had to get the setting right and let us know exactly what each woman's life was like before she upped and changed it all for both of them. Once that happened, it was an easier read. Because I'm now an empty nester and totally delighted to only have to take care of myself and my husband again, all the parenting info made it less enjoyable a read for me as some of her other books. That said, though, the last third of the book warmed up a lot in terms

This took me forever to get through. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't for me. I couldn't really relate to the characters because I'm not a mother. This is essentially two moms that switch places, kind of like freaky friday. One is a high-strung working mom and the other is a stay-at-home mom. They both went through a lot of growth and character development. But this just wasn't my thing.

Well, this was just a whole lot of fun! It’s the twist on 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮 we all needed. Have you ever looked at another mom or another woman and thought: ‘they have it so much easier than I do.’ Then maybe you should switch places with them for a week.That’s exactly what happens to Celeste Mason and Wendy Charles. Celeste is a stay-at-home mom of three who cooks organic meals and drives carpool. Wendy is a business-owning mom whose busy schedule has taken over. Doesn’t Celeste ever want to be mor...

I’m always a fan of surreal stories, where you have to suspend disbelief. So the premise of The Seven Day Switch was definitely up my alley before I even opened it! And what was inside was even better than what I was expecting. Even though the topic of switching minds has been done before, such as in Freaky Friday, Kelly Harms puts a fun and refreshing spin on it, while also emphasizing the importance of balance in one’s life. As soon as I read just one chapter, I knew I had to tell my friend wh...

I've been catching up to my Amazon First Reads pile. I remember when I selected this one, I only did because it had better ratings than the other options. Not necessarily because the story appealed to me. As I am in "between" heftier or more serious reads, I went ahead and decided to give it a shot to "cleanse the literary palate." To the horror of many of my friends, I've never watched Freaky Friday or any other movie on that theme, but I think the subject is a good one to explore. I know what

https://www.howdidthatbookend.com/kel...How is it that a book can make me simultaneously never want kids and want them asap? My ovaries are confused. I LOVED this book, though. The gist is that in a Freaky Friday-type body swap, workaholic mom Wendy and busy stay-at-home mom Celeste switch bodies and therefore lives. Wendy has to juggle Celeste's crazy carpool and bake sale schedule, and Celeste has to keep Wendy's small business afloat while keeping her family running in the evenings.Obviously,...

To all the moms out there, working moms or stay at home homes, have you ever been envious of the other?This book is a version of Freaky Friday where the Moms get swapped for a week. One was a proud stay at home mom and the other a Business women. Each in their own way thinking they were raising their kids in the best way they knew how. They pinned a lot of topics proclaiming why their chosen paths were the best way, however, deep down they wondered if they were doing right by their kids.It was s...

Ok! I started this story thinking it sounded cute, but after completing it, I’m on record saying it’s my favorite book of this year! This story gives you all the feels and you will connect with these two Moms and not only their predicament but their lives as well and how it’s good for Moms to switch things up sometimes.5 pink sangria stars with Vodka!