I grew up loving the parent trap! I desperately wanted my parents to get divorced then I could go to camp and find a long lost twin. I’d cut my hair, learn a catchy tune, then we would get our parents back together. But, no unfortunately my parents love each other and didn’t get divorced and I have no long lost twin.
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I also thought it would be so much fun to freaky Friday with someone, but alas that didn’t happen either.
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If you loved both of those as much as I did,#thesevendayswitch is for you! Celeste is a SAHM, Pinterest meals, clean kids, clean house and relaxes with a glass of wine at the end of the night. Wendy is a successful businesswoman and a successful mom. She may not have the time for home cooked meals but she is always there when it counts. After a potluck, and too much sangria they end up in each other’s bodies.
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This is a fun one. Yes, you need to suspend reality but oh boy can a carpool set off a group of moms just like duplicates at a pot luck. This is a story of moms behaving badly, kids who are friends regardless of parents and how we should be able just to accept each other as parents no matter what kind of parent they are.

What a fun story! "The Seven Day Switch" is a Freaky Friday premise between two mothers; Wendy and Celeste. Kelly Harms explores with humor a working mother's life versus a stay at home mother's life. Both women have perspectives on each other's lives but how much has been misunderstood? The story is told between both women and give an insight into their days but also inner thoughts. I saw parts of myself in both Wendy and Celeste and could connect with them each. Will they be able to connect and be friends? Kelly Harms gives the reader a chance to take pause and think about snap judgements and how to take a walk in someone else's shoes.

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, they're both in for a wild ride.

I loved Freaky Friday, so I knew this book would be right up my ally. It was so fun to see both sides of parenting choices, and read about how Celeste and Wendy aren't as different as they'd thought. It was also interesting to see how Wendy's life looked different through Celeste's eyes and vice versa, and it helped them to realize things about themselves just by seeing life from someone else's point of view.

Kelly's writing is so good. Some scenes were straight-up hilarious! I have The Overdue Life Of Amy Byler on my shelves but haven't read it yet, but now I'm going to have to prioritize it!

The message is that you truly can't compare yourself to others, motherhood looks different for everyone, and everyone is trying their best. Definitely check this one out this summer!

Super funny while making very good points about the day-to-day struggles of life as a parent, spouse, friend, etc. Every day we find ourselves trying to keep up with the demands of life and this book is a very friendly way to tell that story. Not everything is what it seems looking into someone's life from the outside. This was a cute, relatable, page-turner that hit spot on in bringing to light what a "normal" day in a parent's life looks like.

I received a complimentary copy of THE SEVEN DAY SWITCH by Kelly Harms as part of a scheduled Let’s Talk Books promotional tour! Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and the author!

THE SEVEN DAY SWITCH begins with two feuding moms and neighbors, Wendy and Celeste. Wendy is a working mom, supporting her slacker artist husband and two children on her business helping people to live more productive lives. Celeste is a stay at home mother of three with a supportive husband. Celeste is the mom who cooks all organic foods, keeps the kids busy and off the TV, and (in Wendy’s opinion) constantly puts the working moms to shame.

After a bit too much sangria (over which they are yet again competing, of course), the two feuding moms both go to bed and wake up not where they expect… a body swap has occurred! They decide to keep this all a secret from the husbands and the kids and everyone else, stepping into each other’s very different life until they can work out a way to get themselves back.

This is a book you absolutely need to suspend your sense of disbelief for, but once you do it is so much fun! This is not my typical read and I did have a few reservations about reading a book all about feuding moms, not being a mom myself. I needn’t have worried because I was easily caught up in the feud and the humor of the novel!

These aren’t women who I found extremely loveable to begin with. They are very caught up in their own lives, passing judgement on each other even though they really don’t know each other. The author gives these women a lot of room for personal growth through the novel, even as they fight it at every turn. Still, this all puts together some really hilarious content!

Have you ever looked at another person and wished you could switch lives with them, even for a day? Ever thought, man, they have an easy life?

We’ll friends, in Kelly Harms newest read, she’s done the work for us. She’s switched two Moms lives and something scary and amazing comes from it. Celeste and Wendy couldn’t be farther from one another, neighbors but so different. Celeste Is the perfect Pinterest baking Mom while Wendy is the working Mom doing all she can just to stay upright and not kill her kiddos.

These Moms find out just how imperfect one another’s lives are in this funny but, serious novel. Wendy gets to see the actual work that Celeste does and Celeste gets to experience just how hard it is to balance work and home life and still manage to have time with the kiddos. Their lives change and they learn it’s best not to want to hop into someone else’s life because we truly don’t know what others are going through…until we do.

I absolutely LOVED this story and highly recommend to all of you Moms out there. It’ll be available TOMORROW (July 1) so make sure you grab it and let me know how much you enjoyed it..because you WILL!!

Thank you to Kelly, Lake Union Publishers and Kate Rock for this review copy!!

Since I am such a huge Freaky Friday fan, I loved this! I particularly loved that a stay at home mom switched with a working mom and both saw the other side and know the grass is not always greener, and if so, the reasons why! This was cute and cleaver and I enjoyed this book a lot!

Celeste is the Pinterest-perfect, stay-at-home, supermom. Wendy is the accomplished working-mom who really has it all. Neither mom understands the other, and they hardcore judge each other for their choices. But when a pitcher of special sangria leads to them switching bodies, they have a chance to walk in each other’s shoes.

I was OBSESSED with the movie Freaky Friday in middle school, so when I saw this premise, I knew I needed to read this one, and it did not disappoint. These moms were SO extra and were a little too judgmental in the beginning. But, that made their experiences and their growth during the switch that much more impactful. This book had me laughing out loud at times, as these moms got themselves in some truly crazy situations. But most importantly, the message of motherhood being messy and looking different for everyone is something that I greatly appreciated, even if I’m not a mom yet.

Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and the Let’s Talk Books Team for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Loved this freaky Friday book! I laughed and I cried. This book is amazing and has made me reflect on my lifestyle with my family. That is always a good thing in mind. I highly recommend this to everyone!

Mom-shaming happens no matter what side you are on. Working Mom, Stay-at-Home Mom… there is always one judging the other. Why? No one knows what happens in someone else’s private life unless they get the chance to walk in someone else’s shoes. In a twist on Freaky Friday, in THE SEVEN DAY SWITCH, Kelly Harms gives two Moms a chance to understand how the other’s life really is.
Wendy and Celeste are neighbors but couldn’t be more different. Wendy is a working mom with her own business and has her time scheduled to the hilt. Every time she sees Celeste she feels insecure about her choices. Celeste is the stay-at-home mom next door who makes everything look easy: healthy snacks for the kids, hand-sewn clothes for her daughter, volunteering for everything under the sun, and she has time to relax with a glass of wine in the evening. All Celeste wants is to fit in and find some friends and be the best Mom she can be. Even if most people dismiss her when they find out she doesn’t have an outside job, Celeste is happy with her choices, right?
When, after one particularly harrowing (and adversarial) night, Wendy and Celeste wake up in each other’s bodies and lives they are forced to reevaluate their preconceived notions about the other and, maybe, if they can find a way to switch back, make positive changes in their own lives, and, maybe, just maybe, find a friend who truly understands them.
Harms has a way of taking ordinary people you could know and be friends with and exploring their lives realistically and with humor. Her characters are three-dimensional, and her storylines are well-developed. I love the situations she puts her characters in and I find myself laughing and rooting them on. This is not my first novel by Kelly Harms and THE SEVEN DAY SWITCH is a wonderfully enjoyable and her best yet!
Thank you to Kate Rock Book Tours and the publisher for an advanced reader’s copy of this novel. All opinions are my own and freely given.
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When two feuding Moms end up in a freaky Friday situation, who will early from the other? Celeste is the perfect stay at home Mom, while Wendy is the sole breadwinner in addition to doing everything fir their family. They don’t like each other much, so it’s quite the surprise to wake up in the others body.

What a perfect summer read! And while I doubt anyone reading this is 100% either character, there’s a lot of room for thought on the lessons they learn.

Two moms, as different as they come. Celeste is the definition of a stay at home mom. She makes all the homemade meals, drives the kids for carpool and keeps tight reign on her children. Meanwhile neighbor Wendy could not be more annoyed by Celeste and how she puts the working moms to shame. Wendy is a very successful business owner who never has enough time in her day for all she needs to do. Neither of these moms have an idea of what it really is like to be in the others shoes, that is until after a sangria filled night they wake up in the others body.

This book is hilarious! I was laughing out loud many times both by their banter and their internal thoughts. It is so easy to picture exactly what is being described throughout. If you are a fan a Freaky Friday, this book is for you!

This could have been extremely predictable based on the Freaky Friday premise, but I found it original and entertaining. A good combination of humor and lesson to be learned. It was a fun read and I recommend it to others, but personally I don’t like when an author wants to show how woke they are by making statements that have no point in advancing the story. There are better ways to incorporate your views into the storyline that would have more impact than throwing in obvious inflammatory statements here and there. That cost this rating a couple of stars.

Celeste and Wendy are neighbors who don’t really know each other but don’t get along. Wendy is secretly jealous of Celeste, who is a stay at home mom who life seems perfect. Her kids eat healthy and don’t watch tv but when you are a stay at home mom you have all the time in the world, right? Celeste thinks career mom Wendy is upright and not welcoming. When they wake up one morning and find themselves in each other’s bodies it’s impossible to believe. What happens next is a story about two women finding themselves.

The idea of the book, body switches, has been the subject of many movies and books. What I loved about this book is how each mother changed their way of thinking by the end of the book. I don’t want to give away the ending but the lessons the moms learn is important for every person. You can’t be too hard on yourself because the grass is not always greener on the other side.

I found both Wendy and Celeste to be very relatable. I could see sides of myself in both of them. I had a really hard time putting this book down and read it in one day!

I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me of the TV series Wife Swap. The story centers around mothers, Celeste and Wendy and how differently they parent and live life. Highly recommend.

The Seven Day Switch had me at a Freaky Friday retelling.

Meet Celeste Mason, a stay at home mom and DIYer, and Wendy Charles, a mom that has her own company. They couldn't be more different and they make sure that the other is aware of this. After they get drunk on each others sangria, they wake up in each others bodies. Until they can figure out how to switch back, they have to try and live each others lives.

I enjoyed watching both Celeste and Wendy learn and understand what it actually took to be the other person. Motherhood can't be easy and it looks differently for everyone. I do think that Wendy was too judgy but I also understood where she was coming from. She was the classic case of being too hard on yourself and taking that out on others. During the body swap, I think both Celeste and Wendy could have tried to do better to adhere to each others schedules. I also think that overall they ended up making each others lives better and Wendy realized what a great friend Celeste was. She also learned that it's easy to look down on someone who stays at home with their kids, but that their lives aren't easy.

I'm not a parent myself, but I appreciated how Kelly Harms emphasized that the perfect parents doesn't exist. It's messy, complicated, and you don't always get it right.

The ending was cheesy but it was what I wanted and it drove home the overall message of the book for me.

Thank you to Kate Rock Book Tours, Lake Union, and NetGalley for physical and digital advanced copies in exchange for an honest review.

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 for my honest review. **

This book is a perfect, fun, beach or summer read! It's a twist on "Freaky Friday" where a stay-at=home mom and a working mom switch bodies for one week. It was really funny and also sweet and heartwarming. I would definitely recommend this book to all of my mama friends! I am excited to read more from this author. I received a free copy of this book from netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Forget the comparisons to Freaky Friday...this book was reminiscent of one of my favorite tv shows of all time, Wife Swap!

Celeste is the mom that working mothers love to hate. Her home is perfectly organized, her children are shuttled off to school each morning with nutritious bento boxes, she shuns screen time, and she dares have the time to sit in her front yard enjoying a glass of wine at the end of the day.

Wendy is a working woman who celebrates the hustle with no apologies. Sure, her husband is a sloth and contributes nothing, but she's supportive of him chasing his dreams as an artist. It's fine that she never has a minute to herself. After all, productive and busy means you're making it!

After a neighborhood potluck with the "wrong" kind of sangria, the women wake up to find they are in each other's bodies. What follows is a blend of hilarious and sobering moments as each realizes some pretty important life lessons.

This book spoke to me because women have a way of tearing each other down. We see the facade, the social media posts and pictures, and it's impossible not to get caught up in the comparison game. This was a subtle reminder to reach out to your neighbors and your co-workers because NO ONE, and I mean no one, has a perfect life.

"Haven't we all had those moments where the 'road diverged' and both roads ahead are equally fascinating and equally cool? But you take one or the other and your life happens after that."~Susan Baroncini-Moe

In a Freaky Friday style switch, the ever-busy working mom Wendy Charles switches bodies with her neighbor, the stay-at-home poster mother for Pinterest, Celeste Mason.

I absolutely loved this story mostly because of the relatability of the characters. As a stay-at-home mom, I thoroughly connected with Celeste but I also found some aspects of myself in Wendy, too. Both felt a strong desire to be (and therefore overcompensated to be) the “perfect” mom and I think every mother struggles with this idealization. This book gives voice to the unfair assumptions many of us have of other moms which we use to justify our own decisions when in truth we’re all just trying to do what’s best for our families.

Maybe this story was slightly predictable, the characters were a bit stereotyped and really deep down all of us know that no one mom is perfect or has it all, but I still enjoyed every aspect of this story nonetheless and the lessons behind it. I do think readers in all seasons of their lives will enjoy this story, but for me I appreciated it for where I am right now.

A special thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the gifted eArc in exchange for an honest review.