The Seven Year Bitch

Laugh out Loud Funny

This novel is about Izzy Trent and her marriage to Russell. It chronicles the ups and downs of their marriage since having a baby. This book was laugh out loud funny. I am a newlywed and thought this book was an a look into a ordinary marriage when the sparks have dulled and you are trying your best to hold it all together.

Gotta love Izzy!

I did not like this book when I first started reading it. I found it crass and unrealistic. But I couldn't put it down. I had to know what totally inappropriate thing would come out of Izzy's mouth next. So, I had to re-think what I thought and I think that I do, in fact, like it very much!

Izzy Brilliant is a total basket-case, but an endearing and well-meaning one. And like the park near her home she comes full-circle. She takes a very round-about way of getting there and puts herself and her family through hell but she does it with style.

I needed a good shake and Jennifer Belle did it. Now, off to the bookstore for some more.

Disappointed

I was extermly dissapointed in this book. It was not funny in fact I found it extremly sad that people might actually think like this and act like this. I have had my share of ups and downs with my husband and thought it would be a good read something I can relate to. But this charater was over the top. Must be that NY lifestyle, but to have a nanny and not work and not do anything with your kids still fight with your husband and are misreable? I wasn't going to finish the book it was so bad but I kept hoping for it to get better but it only got worse. The main character really was a bietch and deserved to be miserable and deserved her husband to have left her high and dry!

I swear I wrote this book!

I was fortunate enough to have won an ARC at Goodreads and this one blew me away. Can I give it 4.5 stars??? I really think that they picked me on purpose because i have never connected with a book in my life. I never even read books like this. This is strictly a woman's book and I would truly have passed it in a bookstore or anywhere for that matter and I can't tell you how happy I was to read this.

First, I kept looking at the cover wondering where my name was. I must have wrote this book or have helped in someway??? I couldn't relate to her any more. The only difference was having some sort of money. I don't have any and she clearly did but it is nice to know that money can't separate us! Everything she said made sense. It made me feel like I am not alone. the things we shared were:

- Having a sense of humor
- being a working Mom (although she stopped and I can't afford to)
- having an emergency c-section
- having a planned c-section
- always arguing with my husband thinking if it were gonna end up in divorce.
And just some much more. She even talked like me at times.

After reading this book it took a little weight off of my chest. Having 2 kids so close in age is very hard. I work full time, go to graduate school, my girls are 15 months apart, I have c-sections, and money is always super SUPER tight so you can imagine what me and my husband constantly argue about. This just proved that things are hard but you gotta just go with it. I assume things will be easier eventually and I am always making jokes and I try to make light of things but there are still pressures and I was grateful to have won such a book. I was laughing out loud multiple times and other times I had to call my sister or husband to tell them the funny or truthful things that I read. So thank you for my win and I really hope people would pick this up! I have been passing my views on to everyone! (less)

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