I highly recommend you make yourself a glass of rosé sangria and dive into 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛 by Kelly Harms.

This hilarious spin on mommy wars is Freaky Friday meets Class Mom and I am all the way here for it. Yes, some aspects of the story are over-the-top but if you're a mom, I guarantee you know a version of both Wendy (the workaholic, I do everything mom) and Celeste (the Pinterest perfect stay-at-home mom) and reading about these two polar (and highly judgmental) opposites switching bodies is a riot. Seriously. I laughed out loud more times than I could count. Besides being hysterically fun, this book also provides an insightful look at motherhood today and made me reexamine my expectations for myself as well as my assumptions about some women I know. You don't have to have kids to enjoy 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 - you just have to be willing to kick back, relax and enjoy the ride.

Thank you to Let's Talk Books Promo, KCCPR, Amazon Publishing ad NetGalley for a copy to review.

"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 to spend as much time with her kids, Bridget and Linus, as much as she would like. Both mothers have taken an instant disliking to each other, and things begin to escalate at a pink sangria (with vodka) fuelled event, until they wake up with horrific hangovers - oh, and in each others bodies.

The premise of this book is something that's been done many, many times before yet never seems to get less enjoyable. As a parent, I have often wanted to swap with my working partner and have him be a stay at home parent instead, which makes me believe I am the perfect audience for this book.

I did not expect this book to be the uplifting, empowering, and inspiring piece that it was. In all honesty, chick-lit isn't my favourite genre but it really does make for easy reading, and I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed this book.

The main focus of The Seven Day Switch is the character development arc of Celeste and Wendy with a running theme of competitive mothering. I liked Celeste more than I liked Wendy, but Wendy developed the most as a character, her journey was the more arduous one, and every reader loves a fictional journey.

"Snobbery is just something I've bought into to explain my choices. Just like it's something Celeste has bought into, but her kind of snobbery is Mother-of-the-Year snobbery, and mine is Too-Busy-to-Be-Mother-of-the-Year snobbery, and the reality for both of us is that the minute you look too closely, any illusion of superiority falls right away."


There is humour interlaced, one productive husband and one counterproductive husband, kids with developed personalities and characteristics, and excellent writing throughout. The ending was amazing and really raised it from a three star to a four star for me.

I went into this based on a suggestion from a book club friend and I had high hopes since I love the Freaky Friday movie but unfortunately this kinda missed the mark. Yes, it definitely has a body swap, but the point of the book seems to be more about mom shaming and I’m not really into that. That being said, it wasn’t completely bashing, just trying to make working moms appreciate stay at home moms and vice versa, but in trying to accomplish that, it pointed out all the flaws with each and that didn’t seem necessary to me.
Celeste and Wendy are neighbors but not friends, even though their kids go to school together and at a school function they drink some “spiked” punch which causes their switch and they live as each other for a week til they can figure out how to switch back. There were some silly parts of trying to adjust to each other’s new normal, but there was also a lot of repetitive stuff, especially towards the end. It was a quick read and will prob make a great beach read for a lot of people this summer.
Thanks to Lake Union Publishing and Netgalley for this Arc in exchange for my review.

The Seven Day Switch is my first book from author Kelly Harms, but it definitely won't be my last.

This is a laugh out loud novel about the contrasts between working moms and stay at homes moms and the animosity that often exists between them.

Celeste and Wendy live in an upscale community. The only connection between them is their daughters are best friends. Celeste is a stay at home mom who cooks every day, makes sure her family eats healthy, keeps screen time to a minimum for the kids and is just an all around earth mother kind of woman. She is new to the community and trying to fit in but there is no love lost between her and Wendy. Wendy owns her own company and it takes up more hours than there are in a day. Her kids often get take out for dinner and even though she tries to be there for them, she often misses out. They each prefer their style of living and look down on the life style of the other. Celeste thinks that Wendy doesn't spend enough time with her kids and Wendy thinks that Celeste doesn't do much since she stays at home.

This is going to be a great summer hit- I am predicting it. I can't wait to read more from this author.

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 to one another they wake up the next morning to realize that they have switched bodies.

I really enjoyed this book and felt it was equal parts humor and compassion. These women are polar opposites of one another but once they begin walking in the others shoes they begin questioning what makes them or any other woman a good mother.

I grew to really care about these women and their lives and I was rooting for them the entire way. A worthwhile, feel-good book with characters that I am so happy to have spent time with. 4 stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for providing my copy.

Freaky Friday meets Wife Swap in this laugh out loud book by Kelly Harms! This is my first Kelly Harms book and it will not be my last ! This was such a cute story with great storytelling and writing throughout. Harms truly captures the different types of motherhood and the highs and lows of it all. This book brings “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes” to a whole new level. This was a cute, quick read and at the end of the day highlights how mothers just want the best for their kids.

This book is easy to read, enjoyable and has a happy ending. Slightly predictable but that isn't a bad thing for this story. There are enough twists in it to keep it from being boring. Perfect!

Freaky Friday for moms?!? Sure!
#Momshaming is real. We tend to be guilty of judging & envying others, but need to remember we never know what someone’s going through. Harms shows just that & appearances are often deceiving. Celeste & Wendy do a little #momswap, except their families aren’t in on it. They find that the grass isn’t always greener and not to judge a mom by her cover.
The perfect read for a long summer weekend!

A great summer read or something to curl up with on a rainy day. This is the classic book about the perception that the “grass is greener on the other side” mentality and protecting traditions and social status. This is a story of friendship.

Before the author even referred to it, this book reminded me of the Disney movie Freaky Friday even before the author pointed this out, where a mother and daughter switched bodies, except in this story it is two adversarial neighbors, Wendy and Celeste who think the other has it all. Wendy is a high-powered focused career woman who wants to have it all and Celeste a stay-at-home mom. Each looks at the other with some wistful envy of their lives. After a drunk induced sangria binge at a softball family picnic, they wake to find themselves in the wrong bed, with the wrong husband, and in the wrong body. As a result, they need to live each other’s lives for a whole week until they can hopefully switch back without their families knowing. They both discover that their perception of the other woman has been totally wrong. Wendy finds out that life as a housewife is not all sitting on the front lawn with a glass of wine while Celeste learns that juggling being a mom and the guilt of being a workaholic parent is quite a struggle. They learn to appreciate empathize with each other while also learning they have more in common than they think.

I found this book very entertaining and humorous at times, but also thought provoking at times. How does one find a balance in life to see what is really important? What should a parent’s priorities be to be happy? The back and forth by plays of both Celeste and Wendy were well done as they get to reflect on their own life. Don’t we all wish that we could have that luxury to view ourselves objectionably and see the effects of our actions? This is an enjoyable read that is more than the typical Freaky Friday plot. Just like previous books written by Kelly Harms, suchas The Overdue Life of Amy Byler and The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane, this was just fun to read.

Thanks to #kellyharms #tehsevendayswitch #netgalley for allowing be to read and review this book.

A fun book! I love Wife Swap, Freaky Friday and anything like that, and this book was plenty of fun but with some deeper undertones. You can definitely picture the storyline as you go along. I recommend this fun read! Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Fun book to read as apparently opposites find themselves with switched bodies. The ultra-busy ladies, one a homemaker and the other a business executive, discover things about themselves, each other, and their families while trying to get back to their own bodies. Lots of humor and emotion.

Wife swap show!! I love the concept and this author just brings the humor!! I was laughing from start to finish. Very relatable as a mom

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 of the evolving friendship of the two women and the choices they made to help both themselves and each other. I imagine it's a great read for parents of kids who are still at home. For those whose kids are gone, it's still a good read.

Ohh Freaking Friday! I was on a thriller book run but this was the perfect break from that. I laughed, cried, got annoyed and went crazy with Celeste and Wendy throughout the book.
I suppose I would be recommending this to anyone wanting to have a Pink Sangria, because the level of crazy is almost the same!
Thank you for this ARC. Well written, light hearted but with a great message for all.
Cheers!

4.5 stars

This was such a surprising read! I downloaded this from Amazon’s first reads selection and was also given a copy via @netgalley. This is my first book by @kelly.harms but I will definitely be reading more!

The story follows two women, neighbours Celeste and Wendy. The ladies live next door to each other and have a passive aggressive rivalry going on. After another battle over sangria, the two women find themselves swapping lives and learning exactly what it’s like to live in the other persons shoes.

So! The first thing I really loved about this is the transparency in relation to the body swap. The film Freaky Friday is referenced and I loved that the actual body swap wasn’t trying to be sold as an original idea. What was original was that it was two mothers swapping lives - one a working mother and one a stay at home mother. Each of them thinking they’re busier or more important and judging the other.

There were so many parts of this, with one liners that really just made me laugh out loud. The ridiculous situation Celeste and Wendy found themselves in but also how they handled it. I found it to be such a quick read with some sweet meaningful moments and real wake up calls for both women.

I really enjoyed this story and how it wound its way to the ending which was expected and unexpected in equal measure.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a freaky Friday style, where Celeste and Wendy switch lives. One is a working mom, the other is a stay at home mom.

While it sounds very fun and light on the surface, this book does touch on the important societal issue of mom shaming. Both women are in positions where they feel shamed because of the choices they have made in life. It leads to a deeper understanding of each other I think it’s important we all have.

I thought this trope would be annoying since it is slightly overdone, but I thought Harms did a great job in executing it well while pulling off a greater overall moral of the story.

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 because it gives us both sides of the story, without hammering you over the head with platitudes...It is serious stuff but also done with humour and love and especially kindness, in the end.

Kelly Harms has hit another one out of the park with this charming tale. This is a delightful story that made me laugh, cry, and remember times from my kids childhood. She really nailed the description of that "pit in your stomach feeling" when you aren't sure if you're doing right by your kids or not. Really, ALL moms should stop worrying about how they are perceived and just live with their kids in the moment. That's what I took away from this story...and I loved it.

I was absolutely obsessed with Freaky Friday when I was younger. I had that movie on repeat growing up, so I was sold after reading the synopsis of The Seven Day Switch.

The Seven Day Switch follows moms Wendy and Celeste who could not be more opposite. Wendy is juggling a demanding job, two very different children, plus a husband that is less than involved. Celeste is a stay at home mom that lives on organic food and little screen time for her children. The two women don't see eye to eye on anything, so what could be worse than being friends? How about switching bodies with each other for a week, forced to live each others' very different lives.

So many aspects of this book spoke to me as a mother. While Celeste is the mom I always thought I would be, Wendy's situation resonated more with me. Juggling work + kids + real life is difficult and can be exhausting at times. I felt validated reading her journey. As mothers, we tend to put so much pressure on ourselves to be everything to everyone and mom guilt is so real!

Thank you to Amazon and NetGalley for the advanced copy.

This book drives home the message of the grass isn't always greener on the other side. I liked how both Celeste and Wendy not only learned how to appreciate each other, but they also learned about themselves and what they truly want out of life. If this past year of COVID has taught me anything, it's been to examine what's most important in life.

Super cute and easy to read book that reminds us that just because you know of someone doesn’t mean you know them. It was an easy to read book that you just sit back and enjoy.

What do career working moms and stay-at-home working moms have in common? According to the protagonists in this fanciful novel: GUILT.

Wendy Charles is a successful entrepreneur who has a jam-packed career, two children and a slacker spouse. Ironically, her consulting company focuses on helping clients be more productive and “have it all,” while her own life is stressful to the extreme. Wendy’s guilt stems from not having enough time with her kids and she compensates by indulging them whenever she is present. She swallows her resentment when her artist husband sleeps in and doesn’t contribute financial support nor helps with the children and the household maintenance. He’s the least productive person in her world.

Celeste Mason, on the other hand, is a stay at home mom by choice. Previously employed as a mathematics instructor, she now has three children who are growing up with the childhood she so desperately missed herself as a child. Her guilt manifests by being the “perfect” mother and homemaker who makes her daughter’s fashionable clothes, makes home-cooked organic meals, runs the free Uber service for working moms with kids, and volunteers for all things school related. She bristles when people comment that she doesn’t “work” and feels isolated socially when others cannot relate to her lifestyle choice.
So… these two polar opposites become neighbors. The tension between them is high until a mysterious event occurs – they wake up one morning in each other’s bodies. The old saying about not judging another until you walk a mile in their shoes is amply illustrated in the seven days of “the switch.”

Overall, I enjoyed this book and thought the author did a good job illuminating each women’s strengths and weaknesses. Their epiphanies that flowed out of this experience revealed their common bond and laid the foundation for respect and friendship despite their overt differences. At times the pace felt a little uneven, but the last half of the book intensified the issues and held my interest. The character development felt realistic and relatable. Perhaps the husbands’ portrayals were a bit clichéd and also reflected the polar opposites theme. The conclusion was a bit predictable, but with a satisfying resolution to several unexpected challenges.

My thanks to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for the privilege of reviewing an eARC. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

This review is being posted immediately to my GoodReads account and will be posted on Amazon upon publication.