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Celeste Mason is a pinterest stay-at-home supermom, while Wendy Charles makes the working mom hustle look easy. Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? They're about to find out thanks to a freaky week. After a neighborhood potluck, they wake up in each other's bodies. Everything Celeste and Wendy thought they knew about the "other kind of mom" is flipped upside - along with their messy, complicated, maybe not so different lives.

I really enjoyed this book. I liked how it had a dual POV, so you could see the both sides of the story. I liked how this novel showed the difficulties of motherhood; the stress, the anxiety, the exhaustion and the mom guilt. I enjoyed the growth of the characters and how Celeste and Wendy developed a genuine friendship. This book was full of humor, compassion and fun.

If you're looking for a feel-good book with many lessons as well, then be sure to read The Seven Day Switch by Kelly Harms.

I recommend this book to all mothers out there, stay at home or working. I enjoyed this story of Celeste and Wendy, neighbors who have nothing in common, including their philosophies of child rearing. Celeste is a stay at home mom, content with making sure her kids eat right, limit screen time, and is happily married. Wendy is a working mom with a successful consulting business, who appreciates fast food and screen time as she tries to balance a demanding job and home,with her uncooperative husband. After drinking some pink sangria, the two wake up in each other’s bodies, in a Freaky Friday sort of way. Each woman learns a lot about the other, as they develop a friendship. A great summer read,thanks to NetGalley.

The Seven Day Switch is a fun read, which I enjoyed. Wendy is a hard-charging, busy, successful businesswoman who started her own productivity coaching company but whose artist husband is rarely around. Celeste is the ultimate Pinterest-model, doesn’t work outside of the home mom who volunteers for everything and whose husband is a unicorn. Celeste and Wendy are neighbors with kids of similar ages, but the women don’t get along. After consuming some pink sangria with a special kind of vodka, the women wake the next morning and realize they have swapped bodies. The story unfolds over the next week while they each try to live the other’s life so no one else is the wiser. As they walk a week in the other’s shoes, they start to understand not only the other woman’s life better but also their own. This was the first book that I have read by author Kelly Harms, and I am now planning to read her other books. Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I can very much relate to this book. It's a simple "freaky friday" between two very different moms. It's a story between a working and a stay-at-home mom. In today's world, we as women sometimes unconsciously competing against one another, especially between moms who have a job outside of the house and the one who chooses to stay home. One does not have a harder job than the other and each has given up a lot to do what they do. This story touches on the core of this very argument. At times, the story can be light and fun, and at times it does hit deep on the problem. Each mom's character does have a very strong point of view before and after their switch. This helps give the reader who does not fall into this category of mom to get a nice sense of the struggle. For readers who are moms, a nice sense of understanding what they think and feel. The pace does not lag. It is very nicely written.
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This ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Man this book hit me right in the feels. We follow Wendy, a workaholic mom who feeds her kids fast food and gives them too much screen time and Celeste, a stay at home mom, who loves Pinterest and organic food. Complete opposites who switch bodies after a drunken sangria mess. There was so much I loved about this book. It was touching, and raw and honest. As a stay at home mom, it just resonated with me on so many levels. I loved how up until the very end, the two woman still were at each other’s throats but still came together in the end and learned so much about each other and theirselves. It was a beautiful story with so many lessons and wonderful commentary on what woman should be and what we deserve. I just really enjoyed this.

This was the perfect lighthearted read I was looking for. I loved the Freaky Friday, body switch premise.

Celeste and Wendy were the best type of main characters. They were funny, made decisions you like and dislike but you never stop rooting for them.

If you’re looking for an easy, light read I would recommend!

Thank you NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for an ARC of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Rating: DNF

I couldn’t bring myself to get that far into this book. Suburban stories are usually a hit or miss for me, and this was a miss. This book just wasn’t for me. I heard great reviews about it, but in the end, not everyone has the same preferences. There wasn’t anything horrible from what I read. I was just uninterested and didn’t feel a connection with the characters.

🔊Song Pairing: In Your Shoes - Sarah McLachlan

💭What I thought would happen:

I had heard it was a play on Freaky Friday and knew I had to read it!

📖What actually happens:

This novel plays on the concept of walking in someone else’s shoes when Wendy, a working mom with some serious hustle, and Celeste who hadn’t eaten a carb in a decade switch bodies. Blame the sangria! 😂

Each of the ladies has to take a step back and literally see into the lives of one another to correct the cosmic joke the universe has played on them.

🗯Thoughts:

While this book is hilarious it does a fine job of highlighting the unnecessary war between working and stay-at-home moms. Women should be supporting other women and that is a lesson the characters are forced to learn. I know a few people who could use “an out-of-body experience”. 😂

Wendy and Celeste are very vivid characters. The author does a fantastic job of putting the reader in their shoes.

There were points where I was laughing so hard I was crying. A staple in most of my favorite reads! Would highly recommend taking this one on vacation with you! 💯

The seven day switch is a hilarious but meaningful novel by Kelly Harms. Wendy Charles is an entrepreneur and mother of the eleven year old Bridget and eight year old Linus. Her husband Seth is a struggling artist, who hardly has time for the household. Then one day, the Mason family arrives in the neighborhood, right next door. Wendy couldn't help but notice Celeste, who is a happy homemaker spending all her time with her three children and a caring husband, Hugh. When Celeste show up with her self made pink sangria in the softball game where Wendy was supposed to bring the refreshment, she lashes out at Celeste but does tastes a bit of her drink. The next day, Celeste and Wendy find out their bodies have been swapped and they have no other but to pretend to be each other just like in the movie, Freaky Friday. Will they, be able to survive with their new identity without getting busted and get back into their own body ?

When I started this book, there was nothing much to expect from the plot because I have watched Freaky Friday. So the humorous instances where the only thing keeping me entertained. What started as a comically tragic incident, soon exposed the grave issues of our social norms. The book provides a deep insight into the heads of mothers, both homemakers and working moms. Their insecurities, plights and struggles are so often ignored and misunderstood by others. Only a mother knows how she makes the ends meet, just as Wendy says "there is nothing I wouldn't do for my children ".
The author emphasizes on the fact that instead of expecting the wife or mother or the female members to take care of the household, the chores should be distributed among the members. Each member should help according to their own capability and try to be self sufficient instead of expecting or ordering. I really liked the ending which was quite expected, but also very much unexpected. Recommended to everyone, especially readers who like women's fiction and humorous stories.

The Seven Day Switch is another great book by Kelly Harms! Two totally different Moms switch bodies for a week - remember Freaky Friday?!! Wendy works hard, gives her kids a lot of take out and never has enough time for herself. Celeste is a stay at home who cooks and bakes and does everything for her family. A story about not realizing what you already have. Is what other people have really something to envy? A lot of really funny parts that had me laughing out loud!

<b>There is nothing called perfect parenting.</b>

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 family once kids grow up. They both judge each other's lifestyles and choices constantly until one day they accidentally swap bodies and are forced to live each other's lives for a week. In truth they are both quite amazing mothers in their different ways, and none has a perfect life. They are both exhausted, overdoing things in order to achieve some resemblance to perfection and need to take it easy and live their own lives.

Kelly Harms wrote in this book that the mommy wars are so 2010s, and yet she chose to write a novel about it in 2021. I am not complaining. Unlike the book setting in the US where stay-at-home moms might be relatively rare, in India I have grown up surrounded by them. And I have seen (still seeing) a constant comparison between the two ways of mothering, although admittedly it has somewhat lost the vicious edge over time. So, although I'm not a mother, I hoped to relate to this book. The problem is that neither of the characters are likable or relatable or have any sense of boundary. To make the contrast between their lives, Harms has taken the liberty of making them as different as humanly possible. If the idea is to create two characters representative of two lifestyles, then taking the extremes as examples is not such a great idea. Stay-at-home mothers don't spend 24 hours cooking and doing laundry, or thinking about baking for the entire school or parenting in general. Neither do all working mothers work because they must for a living, are busy as hell and have a jerk for a husband. Also, the climax was over-dramatic.

Harms' writing is breezy and it makes for a fun read. The message is also noble, if not novel. But it took too long to reach the point.

2.5 stars.

This story is a humorous but eye-opening take on the "feud" between the stay-at-home mom and the workaholic career oriented mom, the misconceptions each type has about the other, and the discoveries that empower them to change their lives. After bingeing on vodka infused sangria these two quite different neighbors, Celeste - the stay at home super mom and Wendy - the career focused mom, awaken to find themselves living in the body and home of the other (but with their mind-sets intact) leading to some hilarious situations and both such seemingly disparate women ultimately come to realizations and new insights that change their lives. But it will take a full week before they can regain their own families; and what extraordinary changes occur during that week!!

So, I really enjoyed this book. It's a bit of women's fiction, but also makes you think about women's role in today's society. Celeste and Wendy are next door neighbors whose lives could not have taken more different paths. Celeste is the ultimate stay at home mom, making all her food and clothes from scratch. Wendy is the ultimate entrepreneur, having built a productivity consulting business on her own and supporting her family on her income. When a weird batch of vodka and a bad hangover make them switch bodies, they have to see what it's like in the other one's shoes.

As I am not a mother myself, I wasn't sure if I would like this one. But it was a funny and enjoyable book that made me think about marriage, kids, and what having it all really means.

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 material, but out here, she’s all in.

Are you sick with Old Timers’ like Great-Grandma? Are you going to die?

No one knows what to say to you. Your life path is the conversational equivalent of asking about a bad rash. Is that how you really want to roll?

I have them both going on a chore chart. I have mad skills, Wendy, and soon you will learn to worship at the altar that is my parenting.


My Review:

This was my first experience with Kelly Harms and she provided a deliciously fun and well-crafted read. I adored her clever humor and snark merrily prancing through this slyly insightful and highly amusing book. Her writing style was easy to fall into and her humorous women’s fiction tale covered multiple tropes with family drama, whimsical body-switching, mom guilt, infidelity, and suburban parenting wars gone awry.

All of the characters were well textured and multi-layered but I had a tough time caring for the main character of Wendy throughout most of the book as she was rather acidic, testy, judgmental, full of sharp edges, and needed to save up for that all-important surgery to remove the stick that was firmly embedded up her rectal region. She was a complicated piece of work but thankfully Waspish Wendy salvaged herself and I had mellowed to her cause by the end of the book.

Even if the premise was more than a bit fanciful and outside of my typical reading habits, I enjoyed this one immensely as the women's dilemmas kept me well entertained. I also find a bit of excellent writing such as this can make any genre worth a go. Kelly Harms has an avid new fangirl and has been added to my list of favorites.

Thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for my ARC in exchange for my honest review. This book was published July 1, 2021.

Cute story about two very different moms (one a stay at home mom and one a successful business owner) who switch bodies after drinking vodka sangria. They spend a week living each other’s lives. Not quite as funny as I would have hoped and with the obvious moral at the end to appreciate what you have. The plot picked up near the end with a few surprises.

Original review posted on GoodReads.

A Freaky Friday-esque novel of accidental body swaps and seeing life through another's eyes, The Seven Day Switch sheds light on the neverending "mommy wars" and the many ways we judge each other (and ourselves) as parents and mothers.

Wendy appears to have it all: a marriage, a house in the burbs, a full-time job at a company she founded, two (mostly happy) kids that she shuttles around to various activities. But inside, she's crumbling under the pressure to get it all done, and somewhat miserable. Her next door neighbor, Celeste, is a Pinterest-worthy stay-at-home-mom who preps organic, healthy snacks and never lets her kids have screentime, but still manages to end each day with a calm glass of wine on the front porch waving to the neighbors. But inside, she's stuck in her determination to do the SAHM gig absolutely perfectly.

The two, always at odds with one another, drink too much vodka-infused sangria at a neighborhood event and wake up in each other's bodies, stuck living each other's lives until they can figure out how to swap back. The premise requires a bit of a suspension of disbelief, and sure, the outcome is somewhat predictable as these two women see their lives (their own and each other's) from a new perpsective, but The Seven Day Switch proves a fun and compelling novel in the end, encouraging moms everywhere to find something like balance in life with kids.

Thank you, NetGalley, for an advanced copy of the Seven Day Switch. This novel follows two moms, Cassandra and Wendy, one a working outside the home mother, the other working in the home. After a full night of vodka sangria, they wake up to an incredible shock. They are in each other's bodies. To truly understand and empathize with what the other has to deal with daily, these women actually live their alternative lifestyles. What they find is compassion, admiration, and the notion that the world is better when women bond together!

What a fun read this was! The Seven Day Switch by Kelly Harms was a great book, really enjoyable and just entertaining in between heavier reads. A book like this is always welcome on my book shelf!

The plot will remind you of Freaky Friday!

Celeste Mason is the Pinterest stay-at-home supermom of other mothers’ nightmares. Despite her all-organic, SunButter-loving, free-range kids, her immaculate home, and her volunteering awards, she still has time to relax with a nice glass of pinot at the end of the day. The only thing that ruins it all is her workaholic, career-obsessed neighbor, who makes no secret of what she thinks of Celeste’s life choices every chance she gets.

Wendy Charles is a celebrated productivity consultant, columnist, and speaker. On a minute-by-minute schedule, she makes the working-mom hustle look easy. She even spends at least one waking hour a day with her kids. She’s not apologizing for a thing. Especially to Celeste, who plays her superior parenting against Wendy whenever she can.

Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? They’re about to find out thanks to one freaky week. After a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, they wake up—um, what?—in each other’s bodies. Everything Celeste and Wendy thought they knew about the “other kind of mom” is flipped upside down—along with their messy, complicated, maybe not so different lives.

Loved it! If you are dealing with heavy things in life, you need to escape into the pages of a book like this. Out now!

I’m usually a thriller seeker but sometimes I need something a bit different in between ! This was the perfect read !! Funny and witty but also the kind of book that will make you think of how you perceive and judge others without really knowing them!
All the freaky Friday vibes but with a more mature feel! Two women who do not each other change bodies only to discover what they are truly lacking in their own lives - through their own eyes while in each other’s bodies !
Absolutely recommend and loved this one ! Thank you so much to the publisher and @netgalley for the privilege to read this e- arc !

I had high hopes for this Freaky Friday type book, but ended up disappointed.  First, I was always so confused about who was who in what body and who they were talking to. Second, it's like the author took every stereotype of overworked women and mothers and threw them into this book of judgemental women. ⭐⭐💫 this is a pass for me and I ended up skimming the second half.