🎧 Book Review: The Friendship Breakup by Annie Cathryn

Genre ~ chick lit

Featuring ~ debut, mom-com, mama drama

POV ~ single 1st person

Release date ~ February 7, 2023

Page count ~ 301

Audio length ~ 8 hours and 18 minutes

My rating ~ 4.25⭐

My review:

Fallon & Beatrice has a falling out and thus sets forth the mean girls being terrible to each other.

We encourage our children to make new friends, but then in turn the mom’s have to be friendly to each other too. It can be hard and a lot of aspects of this book were relatable. It had many fun and, also, emotional moments. I liked that she had her own chocolate making business and how that developed over the course of the story. I liked the idea of a friendship finder app too ~ is that really something?

Overall, a very good debut. I look forward to what Annie writes next.

Side personal note ~ in the last chapter Fallon worried about the results of her genetic testing. Although, there wasn’t much detail surrounding it I am so happy that the author raised this topic. I, myself, had this same testing done a few years ago and, unlike Fallon, I did test positive as a carrier for the BRCA 1 gene. What that means is that I had over an 80% higher chance of getting breast and ovarian cancer than someone that does not carry the gene. I say ‘had’ because I chose to have preventative surgeries to reduce my risk. Of course this means that my child has a 50% chance of being a carrier as well, but I can only pray that the gene stops with me. Anyway, I thought I’d share that little tidbit in order to bring more awareness.

Narrated by Brenda Scott Wlazlo for 8 hours and 19 minutes. She did a lovely job and gave proper emotion when necessary.

*Thanks Annie Cathryn, Dreamscape Media, Alcove Press and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

For fans of Laura Hankin and Jennifer Weiner, this fresh, clever, and complex debut “mom-com” explores the bonds of friendship—and the bounds of loyalty.

A plucky protagonist who’s far from figuring it all out—but powers through with wit and determination—will instantly capture readers.

Fallon Monroe, mother of one, self-help book junkie, and budding chocolatier, has always relied on her neighborhood friends to get her through the trials of adulthood. So when her bestie Beatrice inexplicably starts ghosting her and takes all their mutual friends with her, Fallon’s left wondering how everything went so wrong. Pushing down a lifetime of insecurities, Fallon doubles down and decides to win them back. First, she hosts an epic Cinco de Mayo party that goes epically wrong. Then she joins a friendship app but discovers a disturbing secret about one of her new friends—a discovery that will test the strength of her loyalty to Beatrice.

Just when she’s about to throw in the towel on the whole friendship mess, Fallon reads a recently unearthed letter she’d refused to open decades earlier—and reading it forces her to finally face the deep-seated fears she’d desperately tried to bury. Now, looking at her friendships through fresh eyes, she must decide between hanging on and letting go.

Fallon is an instantly likeable heroine—as vulnerable as she is determined—and she’ll have readers eagerly turning the pages as they join her on an emotional journey into the hopes and fears of adulthood.

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