Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes.

 

Mom Jeans And Other Mistakes

|Contemporary Fiction, Women's fiction.

|Women, feminism, social media, mother hood, friendship, mental health, love, parent hood, race, racism, alcohol, podcasts.

|Alexa Martin

|Penguin Random House

|2021

333 pgs

37 chapters, excluding prologue and epilogue.

🔺mention of manipulative relationships and alcoholism.

✨suitable for ages 16 and upwards✨

Official Synopsis: 

Jude Andrews is famous. Well, at least on Instagram. Her brand is clean eating, good vibes, Pilates, and casually looking like a sun-kissed goddess. In real life, however, she’s a total disaster. She has a strained relationship with her fame-hungry mom and her latest bad decision emptied out her entire savings account.

Lauren Turner had a plan: graduate medical school and become the top surgeon in the country. But when she became unexpectedly pregnant, those plans changed. And when her fiancé left her, they changed again. Now navigating the new world of coparenting, mom groups, and dating,  she decides to launch a mommy podcast with all the advice she wishes someone had given her.

Jude and Lauren don’t have much in common, but maybe that’s why they’ve been best friends since the third grade. Through ups and downs, they’ve been by each other’s sides. But now? They’re broke, single, and do the only thing that makes sense—move in together, just like they talked about when they were teenagers. Except when they were younger, the plan didn’t include a five-year-old daughter and more baggage than their new townhouse can hold.

So...I got intrigued by Mom Jeans And Other Mistakes, because of that title. It had me wondering.

Alexa Martin is bold in this bold with her writing with this book. This book is about friendship, the raw beautiful love of friendship between two imperfect strong women. This book highlights a lot of subjects especially racism and feminism and most especially friendship. This book was raw and so realistic. I really loved Jude's character even though she was alcoholic and reckless. I liked that this book didn't spare out what needed to be known. I like the dynamic duo of Jude and Lauren. It was a wholesome read, a good escape read, not entirely consuming though But I was glad to read about the lives of these two women. I loved the humour too. I wonder if Jennifer will never stop matching with Lake.

This book gets a 16/20