This is a 3.5⭐️ book. I did like it. The story was good and the characters were interesting, but it took me a long time to finally finish listening to the audiobook I got from Netgalley. I think it took me about a year to read it? Something like that.

Olive reminds me a little bit of myself when I was in my 20s. My high school and college friends were having kids or just drifting, while I had decided to join the Navy for a few years. Even in the Navy though it was hard to find friends who weren’t single, let alone without kids. Now I’m in my 40s and still single by choice & no kids. I’m the fun Auntie now.

So ya this book had me reflecting a little about my own choices in my 20s and 30s.  I did really like the audiobook and the reader did a really nice job. The end of the book wrapped up nicely.

Would I read more by this author? Maybe. Emma Gannon is a good writer so if she has another fictions book out I’d read it. This book does feel more like an biography than a fictional character but it works because there’s a lot of issues of life that Olive and other characters go through.

So thanks Netgalley for the audiobook. I don’t think I’ll be keeping my copy though. Reading this once was enough for me.