This was so fun.
I loved how the narrator made this book “live” and help it to stand out easily whilst I was listening to it today.

A first time mom. Oh I remember it well. It’s lovely….
It’s daunting
It’s rewarding
It’s tiring
It’s precious
It’s lonely and isolating.


So why not start up a moms blog.

The way she writes her entries on her blog made me giggle and relate to so much.

Getting ready just walk down to the shops is an ordeal, you just get ready and little baby is sick all over you.
Change mommy’s clothes
Change babies clothes then….
Oh gee what’s that smell!

Us moms will know what I’m on about, right?

Such a well written laugh out loud book for any mom or would be mom. In fact, anyone who wants a laugh.

Confessions of a childless single person: I loved this audiobook!!! Seriously, I would recommend this book to new moms, older moms, dads, childless people, and even people who don't want kids.
Thank you to Netgally and the publisher for providing me with an arc of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
This book was so fun, funny, and relatable (even to someone who is not a mother). The pacing and writing are great and the plot is very grounded in real life issues. Stevie is so honest and blunt as a narrator which really allowed this book to succeed at what it doing. Her voice is so enjoyable to listen to and the narrator of the audiobook did a FANTASTIC job in portraying this.
The friendships are so enjoyable to experience and the characters felt like real people who I would love to hang out with. One of the things the author does so well in this book is allow for her characters to act and react like real people. Specifically, I really liked the way the ending of this book was handled.

This was such an entertaining book to listen to! The narration was superb and the story was fun and fits perfectly in this day and time.

Stevie is a first time mother and she is her own worst critic basically thinking she is messing up big time and not handling motherhood as she should be. Instagram and other social media make us believe being a good mother means you have to be a perfect mother, looking brilliant at all times with everything under control and doing endless fun stuff with your little one to post on all social media. Reality is quite different, for some mothers more so than others! Stevie decides to write a blog about being a first time mom and what it is really like for her and ends up writing most blog posts in the middle of the night, so you can imagine what kind of posts come out then when there is no one else to listen to you.

Being a mother myself I know how challenging, messy and tiring motherhood can be, but I can’t say my version of it was anything like Stevie’s. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Stevie’s day to day life and her blog made me laugh out loud a few times.

I would like to thank the author, the publisher and NetGalley for the chance to listen to this book in exchange for an honest review.

If you are looking for a funny but predictable mom-com (is that a thing yet? A mommy-comedy?), this is a book you could try out.

Stevie, an erstwhile PR executive, is on her maternity break for her six month daughter, Cherry. Her husband Ted is always at office so it’s up to Stevie to manage the home and baby. As you can guess, this leads to typical, over-the-top situations which will make you laugh or cringe. She soon finds two new parent friends, Nelle (a mother of three struggling to manage her home business with her third baby) and Will (a gay dad who serves as the caretaker for his twin daughters while his husband is at work.)

The different factor in this book is that Stevie begins to blog about her mothering experiences and her page “Confessions of a First-Time Mum” soon becomes a hit (as expected) as she seems to delve into the bittersweet side of mothering rather than on the sugary experiences. The chapters that are presented in the form of these blog entries are quite entertaining and the best part of the book.

You get all your usual mom book tropes here – food mishaps, potty bloopers, sleep traumas, social anxieties… Some of it is realistic enough. But the rest is so exaggerated that it might put you off ever wanting to become a parent, if you aren’t one already! We already know that such books are usually cliché-ridden and this book is no exception. It actually starts off very well, and there are many laugh-out-loud scenes in the first few chapters. But it soon digresses into overstated and unrealistic blunders.

The secondary characters are mostly likeable within their stereotypical roles. The main characters, not so much. Stevie’s opinion about her husband seems to go into extremes depending on the situation. The lack of communication between them seems bewildering. Furthermore, Stevie’s almost-entirely absent social skillset seems like a glaring character glitch considering her PR background. The only hands-on dad in the entire book is Will, who is gay. The straight dads seem to be dependent on their female better halves for parenting. Yup, stereotypical it is.

That is not to say that the book is without any merits. The ride is more or less enjoyable, though not memorable. Stevie’s narration of her parenting anxieties, when based in reality, are absolutely touching. The depiction of “mum mums” started off in a typical manner but ended very well. So that was a big plus too. My favourite character of the book though was Nelle, who seems to have her head screwed on very firmly.
What turned the book from a good to a great experience was its narrator Lizzie Wofford. This is one of the best narrations I’ve heard this year. The 9 hours 43 minutes long audiobook went by without any rewind because of her exuberant performance. Full marks to her narration! I would love to hear more books read by her.

A 3.5 from me, rounding up to 4 stars.

Thank you, NetGalley and Saga Egmont Audio, for the audio ARC of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Narrator 5 stars
Absolutely love this narrators accent. She did a great job with this book

Story 3.5 stars
This was an enjoyable story with some good laugh out loud moments. I could relate to some of the situations ands feelings. (I have also forgot my baby before. He was 4 weeks old, Took him out of the car in his capsule and placed him by the garage door, grab the groceries out of the car and then forget to grab him. I was sitting on the couch for a good 5 minutes after having unpacked when I realised he was still in the garage. Lucky he was fast asleep and completely unaware.)
I really enjoyed the main characters but never really took to her husband and their inability to have meaningful conversations.

There’s so much to say about this book, it’s fun, honest, relatable and will genuinely make you laugh out loud at times.