EDIT: I bought the physical copy and reread this book and it is even better the second time around, the ending gets me every time!



Thank you to Netgalley and William Morrow for this early digital copy in exchange for a review.

Maggie is reeling from the discovery that her marriage, which only lasted 608 days, is going to end in divorce. But she is fine! She is stuck at a job she doesn't love and is questioning how she ended up there in the first place with very little money to her name. But she is doing great really! So what if she is only 29 and is someone's soon to be ex wife? She is ready to take charge of her life.

She now has time to explore who she is on her own, what type of sex she likes and what time of day she likes to eat her burgers (4 am). She is discovering who she is through tough love from her work peers and her best friends in their group chat. Meeting new friends along the way and taking up MANY hobbies to see what sticks.

Really Good, Actually is unlike any book I have ever read and related to. It feels as if Monica Heisey took over my life for a day to write the character of Maggie. It catapulted me back to my early 20s, friends I kept, bars we would frequent, the ever present pop cultural references. The emotions that were able to be captured through this storytelling while also giving me big belly laughs and occasional tears is something that is very rare to find in a book. I felt every big emotion Maggie felt that first year alone. Life is hard with a lot of big complicated feelings and I think this story captures the messiness of it all so wonderfully.