If you are married and have not quite made the seven year mark I will tell you it's real and it's scary. A good friend of mine told me once that if you can weather the seven year itch you can take on the world. Maybe not the case with me since Matt and I aren't the best team ever, but I do feel like we've hit a milestone of sorts and already being a few days beyond our seven year wedding anniversary... it feels different. What I absolutely loved about this book is that I could absolutely relate. Isolde is a busy mom and you can tell she loves her husband and her son. A lot. But she also knows that part of her is missing and maybe it's the new found stay at home mom status (been there) or maybe it's the lack of intimacy (done that) or the uncertainty of wanting to have more kids (still working on it) that makes her so relate able. Everything in this book is like talking to your girlfriend about your marriage. It feels like a letter you get in the mail from your best friend who's living it and you find yourself nodding your head in agreement. "...frankly sex seemed just a little bit pointless. Now that I knew what it was like to make love and get a baby in the end, doing it just for the sake of doing it sometimes didn't seem worth giving up the sleep for.." Jennifer Belle so completely hit the nail of marriage on the head because this entire book is so completely accurate to what married life is really like that it could be a memoir. For so many women, in particular, marriage and a family IS what they had always wanted.. and once you achieve that there is this overwhelming "and now what?" feeling that comes over you. And nobody tells you about that. Like so many things in life people tell you that it's going to be great and fun and wonderful and it just isn't. And this book highlights the ups and downs of what a real marriage is like. The only part of the story that I didn't like what the entire nanny storyline. Her nanny has a hard time getting pregnant so Isolde forks over thousands of dollars to help her get pregnant through various methods. In the end I felt like the nanny basically used Isolde because it constantly felt like there was some ulterior motive happening with the nanny. In fact, that entire character and story line could be removed and this book would be even better. I do recommend this book because it was a quick read, I think you'll relate to it and honestly? It was entertaining. What more could you want? You know how sometimes you have a friend who has a real asshole for a husband? You know you do. Maybe they're not always an ass, but for much of the time you've known them, the husband does crazy things? And you know how you can't really say anything because when your friend makes up with her husband everything is all honey and manna? This. Book.Isolde is an ex-hedge fund manager, and she has a small son. Her husband has been attempting to start up a small publishing company for a while. And, well, he's sort of a jerk. Like on their son's first birthday when he tapes over the baby blowing out the candles, taping a faux (read that as "supposed to be funny") suicide note. Because poor him, his life is so hard because he got to quit his job to start up a publishing company, while relying on his wife's income, and he's just. so. miserable.Now. This isn't to say Isolde is easy to live with. She's caught up in getting a nanny, even though the only work she is doing is reading essays for magazine contests. Then she talks about the guilt of hiring said nanny and throws herself into the nanny's infertility and private life.And then there's this deliciously-handsome and wildly-rich man who has held a torch for Isolde for years. And just when she's thinking about ditching the husband (because, well, who wouldn't want to?), she finds out she's pregnant. And though it was a stretch to leave her husband with one child, she certainly can't leave him when she has two children.Though it sounds like I didn't like this book, it was seriously like candy. I picked it up as soon as it came in the mail...just to see what it was about and sat there for an hour reading.Read this: If you're in the mood for something different and a bit lighter.
What do You think about The Seven Year Bitch (2010)?
The main character wasn't very likeable but I still found myself laughing and unable to put it down.
—sephoraxx
