Thank you G.P. Putnam’s Sons, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of All the Other Mothers Hate Me in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Published: March 11, 2025
Summary:
“The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he’s a little shit.”
Florence Grimes, age thirty-one, always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl-band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen-food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect.
Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name or risk losing Dylan forever—never mind that she has no useful skills (let alone investigative ones) and that all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and she has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe.
My thoughts:
I don’t typically go for the “mom” reads but this was offered to me and then it was one of Jordy’s Book Club picks and I’ve really been enjoying what he picks, so I decided to go with it — and no one was more surprised than me by how much I enjoyed this one! Florence might not always have been the most likeable of characters, but by the end of the book, I was totally rooting for her and boy did she have me laughing out loud most of the time and I loved that!
This is a fast-paced, quick read and I flew through it, unable to put it down because I was totally sucked into Florence’s world. I loved her determination to figure out what happened to prove her son was not guilty at all costs! I thought I knew how this book was going to go but it took a direction I didn’t see coming and I could not have loved it more! It totally surprised me and that is what makes this book so fun…and all this and it’s a debut! I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for what this author writes next!
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