DNF because it's utterly bizarre. It's weirdly religious and I honestly can't tell if it's anti girl boss or pro girl boss. Our MC is mean, but not in a fun way.

The parallels to reality are intriguing. This is a look into our current lifestyles and how social media, the rights of women and their struggles as well as the toll these things take on us mentally. Stay at home Mom versus working Mom. What is each sacrificing in order to live their lives. What conclusion or judgement is being passed by others? By society? Great storyline with relatable characters and sprinkles of humor. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book.

This book has it all - a gripping story line, relatable characters, humour.
This is a clever book from an author who clearly has a talent at turning the emotions and experiences of everyday life into books that her readers can't put down once they start reading them. Surely it's only a matter of time before Elise is a household name? I can't wait to see what she publishes next. Highly recommend.

This book had an interesting storyline but I had trouble connecting with the characters. I felt the ending fell flat as well.

Oh yes, I got the real mum sxxt. I’m just really glad that Instagram didn’t exist when I had young children as I was not one of these shining examples of a clean, neat house and fashionable dressing. I was definitely in the ‘real’ category. Messy, lost kids – our daughter was brilliant at escaping – in the shops and onto the street and off and away; or one time she was let out – by her naughty brother who was sad she was locked in our garden and though she would like to play with him – and she crossed a main road and managed to get onto a main railway line into Euston! With her baby in its pram even… luckily brought back by station staff who knew she had come from our estate! She also managed to get left behind in a supermarket car park – there were extenuating circumstances – 2 cars and lots of shopping after both been at work all day and thus frazzled – and each of us, thought the other had her!
All that said, it was a funny book with many giggles bu the ending felt flat and forced.

Genre: Fiction/Novella
Rating: 5/5
Plot: 
She had fought tooth and nail for success, beat hundreds of others to the internship at Brightly Lit Productions, worked harder than anyone to secure promotion after promotion, prioritised work to the point of cancelling her honeymoon because her boss, Nick Maher, had declared they couldn’t manage without her. And all for what? 
Former hotshot TV producer turned frustrated stay-at-home mum Sophia Williams-Williams finds a secret outlet for her angst and endless grievances against her workaholic husband on Instagram.
But her unexpected rise to fame and growing financial independence soon place further strain on her marriage. 
Meanwhile, her 10 year old son’s obsession with keeping his loved ones “safe” has unforeseen and devastating consequences.
My verdict: Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to review this book. A very funny read about a mum’s transition from producer to housewife and now her transition into the limelight via Instagram. Not only does this book deals with the sometimes harsh realities and responsibilities of being a mum, it deals with Mental Health (OCD/Anxiety and post natal depression) as well as religion and finding something to believe in. Not only that it tackles many issues facing the modern family like long work hours, private school mum envy and rivalry as well as the ups and downs of social media. Overall a very engaging read with a plenty of sarcasm and dollops of dry senses of humour all the whilst tackling some heavy issues with lots of empathy and awareness. 

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A fun read that mom's will relate ro. Felix they may have had the same experiences/thoughts.
Really fun but short!!

A very fast read.

On the surface it is amusing, but it is actually a clever look at modern life - the power of social media; women's rights; family dynamics; religion and mental issues - all the issues that modern mothers have to deal with on some level or other. It also touches on the stay at home mom and how they feel in a society which promotes the working mom and often looks down at the stay at home mom who ends up feeling like she has lost her identity.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read this book.

Was looking forward to this but just didn’t work for me so didn’t continue sorry!
I may give it another go if I read other reviews.

Not the best book I have read. The author left many plot holes. The characters I found to be annoying. This was a short read and a struggle at that. I found myself hoping the ending would be worth my time , but the book ended much too quickly.

Here's a word I've not used in a book review for a very long time but which I can't better when describing 'Kitchen Knives and Insta-lies'. SILLY.

There you have it. My one word review of the book. It is - in my opinion - silly.

It's also very short which is both annoying - since it feels like the author forgot to finish a lot of the 'plot-lines' - and a relief.

Our protagonist is a bored stay-at-home mother who believes her career is behind her. She's a moany cow who is dissatisfied with her lot in life despite having an affluent lifestyle, a nice home, two beautiful children and a hard-working but rather detached husband who doesn't seem to be cheating on her. Suddenly, after throwing a few short videos on-line, she's an Instagram star with a humungous following of similarly disgruntled stay-at-home mums and the world is her oyster (if an oyster manufacturer wants to pay her £10k a pop to say nice things about oysters). And then she's getting her own TV series and the money is rolling in so quickly she can't count it, let alone spend it.

Come on now, did I sign up for a fairy story? I don't have much (for that read 'any') respect for the whole concept of social media 'influencers' but I'm sure that Instagram was full of moaning mummies before Ms Williams-Williams decided to post a rant. These so-called influencers work hard at being so shallow and silly and I'm pretty darned sure you don't accidentally become a star overnight like she does.

The book is full of things that the author doesn't bother to finish or to develop. For instance the whole well-to-do-but-underpracticing-Jewish theme. We start out with son Ari wanting a Bar-mitzvah and that whole Jewish but only superficially thing goes precisely nowhere. I hate to mention it but I never came across anybody Jewish called Williams - let alone one who met another Williams who wasn't Jewish and ridiculously decided to double-barrel themselves. Seriously? The kitchen-knife and trampoline theme - well that didn't really go anywhere either. Oh, I could just go on and on but honestly, I can't be arsed to make the effort. If the author couldn't be bothered to write a proper book, I'm not sure I can be bothered to continue ripping it apart. It's not even that original - I've read 'Why Mummy Drinks' which is equally silly but even more annoying,

So why two stars and not one? Well if most of the words are spelt correctly and it's the book is not full of typos and I wasn't forced to give up many hours to read it, I'm not going for the one-star. You have to actively offend me to get that and Elise Lowe has only succeeded in boring and mildly annoying me.

I got this ebook from Netgalley in return for an honest review.

What's intriguing about this book is that the paces picks up really fast and you cannot help but find yourself turning the pages until you get to the end of the story.
You've got Ari who seems to be in a world of his own struggling to make sense of grief, loss and his role in it. Then you've got Leah and their mom, Sophia, who starts posting accounts of her life as a mom on Instagram and soon gets attention for how authentic her posts are- and whereas she feels like everything is crumbling around her and the world is on the move while she stopped, you cannot help but read on hoping she gets that silver lining somewhere in the story.
It's got humor, wit, sarcasm- and characters you can relate to, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who loves some fiction.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

This felt like an excerpt of a longer book and the tag line makes no sense. The set up of Sophia's rise in her career is relegated to a few comments before diving into the present situation: she is on the rise as an aggressive potty mouth mom on Instagram while her son's mental health deteriorates. The short book is well written for what it is, but doesn't fully develop the situation and parts that should have provided a foundation for the story are only mentioned as side comments. I would have preferred a longer book that included this lead up to the story that we were ultimately given. It would have made for a more cohesive and enjoyable read.

When I picked up this book, I didn’t realize that it was shorter, which isn’t an issue in itself. However, I really struggled with this. I couldn’t get engaged with the story or the writing. I don’t know if being longer would have helped or not, but this was a miss for me.

A funny, moving and relatable read, that Mum's will find themselves getting drawn into as they have likely experienced the same things and thought the same things.