Everything Is Just Fine was a very entertaining read. A satirical take on the happenings in and around a Beverly Hills kids soccer team, the story was told quite uniquely through alternating chapters - email exchanges and narratives of different characters. There were some laugh out loud moments - particularly during the email exchanges between the quirky characters.

Thank you Netgalley and the Publisher for my ARC in exchange for my honest review. This was an enjoyable book.

I had a lot of fun reading through this book.... so much so, I actually read it twice.

As a parent, a soccer coach and a victim of reply all emails, there was a lot that I could connect with in this story. The email format was quite enjoyable for me. There was a lot to unpack here with the interplay of relationships.

Special thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the advanced copy of this work, in exchange for my fair and honest review.

This story is about money and status. Everything is Just Fine is done very nicely. Strong storyline and well-crafted characters made this novel a pleasure to read.

Thank you to the publisher and #NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Overall, I thought this story was well presented. The strongest writing and most insightful observations were saved for the last 10% of the text, and I admit that the story up until then was a little too easy to put down. Seemingly gossipy in nature I struggled with actually caring about any of the characters - and there were a lot to choose from. However, the exploration of themes such as electronic communication versus honest conversation, seemingly “perfect” conditions, building false barriers, and the restrictions of circumstances and choices were strongly represented. By the end these thought provoking topics outweighed inconsistent chapter construction (though I thought the use of texts and email conversations were interesting), floundering pronouns, and unnecessarily crude scenes that absolutely pulled me out of the story. I wish the small dash of magic/psychic abilities was better developed.

Highly relatable if you come from a family that was in sports! Loved the format in email threads, texts and IMs, breaks up the monotony of long winded paragraphs and chapters. Easy reading, but also had some deeper themes and content thrown in with the witty, laugh out loud moments. Sadly, as crazy as some of the situations presented in the book are- they're real! You don't know drama until you are around a family of a sports team. Give this one a go if you need a good laugh!

EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE is an entertaining, well-written satirical story of wealth, privilege, and the pressures of parenthood and teenage soccer...

I enjoyed this. Paesel writes very well, and her characters are well-drawn and realistic. If you're looking for a fun read that skewers some of today's stranger social mores, then I'd recommend checking this out. Looking forward to reading more by Paesel in the future.

This book was pretty decent! I am not the biggest fan of the e-mail format that happened in part of the book, but it wasn't all like that so I didn't mind too much. The only thing I didn't love about this is I didn't feel like I could really relate with the characters. It was interesting and funny, but connecting to the characters is a pretty important aspect of a story to me.

A satirical look at suburban life and although this book takes place in Beverly Hills, this book could take in any neighborhood with a kids athletic league! This book focuses on a soccer league with 10 year olds and their parents. Some parents are separated, some are together, some are doing great and some not so much, but they are all thrown together as a team in a league with a coach who maybe puts a little too much value into being a soccer coach!

Told through emails and narrative, it was an interesting reflection on the craziness of parents, families and kids. I loved the way this book was written, that is probably why I loved it so much. I don't have kids, but I have a full time job with email and oh the things that go through email are just as entertaining as the emails these parents send and receive. The ups and downs that can go through email is just so fun to watch from the sidelines.

As a fair warning, there was some sexy times and cheating and such in this book. I could have done without half of it and would have loved the book so much more, some of the plot could have stood on its own without and seemed distracting instead of adding to the story. I probably would have passed the book onto more people if it didn't have as much of this as it did.

I absolutely loved this book! It was hilarious, relatable (in some ways but thankfully not in all!) and highly entertaining. It had just enough of a mysterious intrigue and a lot of @what will happen next”. I’m so glad I was given the opportunity to read this—it will be one I definitely recommend to others!

A friend recommendet this to me and send me some quotes while she was reading it. And she has not disappointed me! This book is truly hilarious and I really loved the narrating. Espacially the different viewpoints and e-mail conversations. Some characters are so real because they were so annoying. This book is full of contrasts: it is somtimes quite depressing but still a great comedy.

I'll start this by saying it took me a really long time to get into this, and I'm honestly not sure I ever did. Paesel's writing style included emails, texts, and basic narratives which made the flow a bit choppy. Some of the passages were hilarious, some felt like they didn't fit, or were too over the top in the humor. Paesel captures the art of the mundane life, but I'm just not sure that was what I wanted. That said, learning about the ups and downs of middle aged life and parenting in this style seemed highly original.

I initially started this book and put it down as I tried to get my head around the format. But once I got into it I loved it! It was so funny in parts but the serious issues that were dealt with in the book crept up on me, and were written in a really moving way. It's hard to mix issues like debt, depression, adultery, autism etc in with humour but Brett managed to do that in a really great way. Brilliant book

Everything Is Just Fine by Brett Paesel. Innovative writing style incorporating email texts and narratives. While some of the passages are satirical and humorous, the situations seemed to be over the top drama. More focus on the parents and their problems than any interactions with the children. All in all an entertaining read.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

I read Brett Paesel’s novel, Everything is Just Fine, about parents and their 10-year-old sons playing on a soccer league in Beverly Hills, expecting the same kind of LOL experience. Rich, entitled parents are the worst kinds to stand on the sidelines with, as the recent college cheating scandal demonstrates. (How could you, Aunt Becky? Lynette? We thought you were one of us!) And the best kinds to laugh at. But in Everything is Just Fine, nothing is fine at all. And the book had me tear up much more often than laugh. Click on the link below to read the entire review.

WHile this book was funny and readable- it left me flat. There literally is not 1 likeable character- which I guess was the point. Even though the emails are easy and quick to read, the substance is very sad. Many of the characters are cringeworthy. Yet I couldn't stop reading this novel because I wanted to see how it ends. But the ending just stopped with no resolution. And throwing in a bit of magic with the young man who thought he could fly was just kind of weird.

“Patrick tumbles through the universe. We all do. Weightless and yet tied to one another. Aware of our separateness and still maddeningly dependent upon small and large kindnesses. Yearning to ascend far above our daily existence. But scoping, always and forever, for a safe place to land.”
What an extraordinary book! I mean that figuratively and literally. Extra ordinary. I loved that Brett Paesel was able capture the beauty of the mundane. There was also a bit of magical realism, which surprised me! I’ve been having that sort of luck in books lately. This story was really similar to Other People’s Houses by Abbi Waxman in that it was several stories of a tight-ish community, interwoven and full of drama. I’m looking forward to reading more from Brett Paesel!

I really enjoyed this quick read. Loved the writing style... adding the emails and text messages in there was original. The story had me laughing and crying, not just because of the story but because kids sports can be like this. I really like the cover to the book as well, it is very befitting to the storyline.
I would for sure recommend this book it was a fun read!

What a refreshing break from lofty books and family sagas, epic historical reads and yet more attempts to copy proven masterpiece. This book, which I gratefully received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, checked all of the boxes for fun, original, quirky storyline and an engaging change to the usual format, with the messages in email form. It's a true page-turner, in a sense of delight and not tension. Paesel walks us into this world of multi-leveled competition, ego and such well-crafted characters. I'll hang onto this one and read it again in the future. It's a stellar rainy-day book.

Emails, private messages, and texts skewer a group of parents in Southern California. Coach Randy has to manage the high maintenance parents more than the kids- and omgoodness are some of these people pains! Some of this feels over the top and a little crazy but sadly, it's also representative of how parents can get over kid sports. While this is set in Beverly Hills, if you pare away some of it, it could be set anywhere. It's smart, funny and a fast read. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. How much you enjoy this depends, I think, on how you feel about the format but it worked for me.