The Unplanned Life of Josie Hale by Stephanie EdingMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Josie Hale has split up from her husband and moved back in with her parents. Unfortunately, in an attempt to reconcile they got together one last time and now she's pregnant. Oh, and her parents have announced that they are selling the family home and moving to a condo so she is about to be homeless. Walking round the county fair Josie bumps into Kevin and Ben, two old school friends who she hasn't seen for years.
After the three of them commiserate over how bad their twenties have been: Kevin works for his father's insurance company, which he hates; and Ben got his girlfriend pregnant at nineteen, now he has an eleven year old daughter who he only sees once a month, they enter into the Corn Dog Pact to improve all of their lives, financially, professionally, and romantically, by the time the last of them turns thirty-one.
I see that this was meant to be funny, but all I could think was that three thirty-year old adults were living like a bunch of teenagers, eating badly and drifting through life aimlessly. Heck it even took Kevin to tell Josie she couldn't eat or drink certain things whilst pregnant. To make it worse, Josie is supposed to be a teacher - how did she and her husband live before she left him? Also I don't quite understand how they all started saving money when they earned no more than previously and clearly hadn't been spending money on anything substantial previously.
Maybe I'm just too old but this really didn't do it for me.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review,
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