I received an advanced digital copy of this book from Netgalley.com, the author and Grand Central Publishing. Thanks to all for the opportunity to read and review.

Everything is just fine, unless you're a member of the Beverly Hill Junior Soccer league. The perfect tale for the age of the Soccer Parent, and a parable of current social norms. Parents are irresponsible and children are caught in the middle. Funny at times and heart wrenching the next, this book will make you look at the folks on those sidelines differently. Very differently.

4 out of 5 stars. Entertaining read.

This is why I don’t have children. If my life revolves around a soccer team the way some of these lives did, I’d consider myself a miserable person! I was interested to read this when I saw that it was satire, and I think it was spot on.

Most readers would enjoy this, but I think parents that hide the need to roll their eyes at the pretentious, snotty, “elite” will probably get the most enjoyment out of this one.

A perfect example of the saying “The grass ain’t always greener on the other side”....especially in Beverly Hills where it never rains.


Thank you to Grand Central Publishing for my advance copy. All thoughts are my own.

This book is a very real and modern take on what being a grown up is like these days. Through emails, soccer practice side talk, and the children, we learn about the ups and downs of the parents of this soccer team based in Beverly Hills. The context, which I am hoping isn’t relevant for my kids’ baseball teams, reveals the emotions of infidelity, naivety, divorce, job loss, and lots of secrets.

An unexpected but hilarious read! This one is original in story line and how it's written. I enjoyed it a lot.

*Thank you to Netgalley for providing an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.*

While I felt like the writing was jumbled and a bit chaotic and there seemed to be too much going on in the story, the character development, especially with Diane, was top notch. I liked the way the emails helped show all the sides of her personality. The people were real people with real problems that didn't miraculously get better at the end of the novel. All in all, a good story.

3 stars.

What a funny book that any and all parents with kids who play sports can relate to. I found myself laughing out loud though out most of Everything is just fine! The characters were either so relatable or so hatable! That is always a fun mix, you can’t love everyone!

Oh man, can I relate to this! It is cringe-worthy how on point Brett Paesel is with her characters and stereotypes. Stereotypes exist for a reason and the reason is so Mrs. Paesel can entertain us with her humor and observations about human interactions and relationships.

A witty, funny look at sports parents but the weird format was offputting. A bit hard to slog through.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

A funny, quick read. On a whole, I lean towards mystery and suspense novels. However, since I've coached, team mom-ed, and simply been the parent of a player, this caught my eye. I'm glad it did. I loved the way it comes across as a light read but really delves into some deeper subjects (adultery, unemployment, depression, etc). And it managed to do all that while still remaining fairly upbeat. Definitely a "do" to read!

To: NetGalley
Fr: Ethel Fagin
Re: Everything is Just Fine

This book was just not for me....(not kidding)...the format was disconcerting...(not kidding)! I didn't get far into the plot and put the book aside. Perhaps I'll read it at another time (kidding)!

However, my thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book when it started - and if it would have been comprised entirely of emails/texts/chats it would have gotten 5 stars because I've been the coach's wife, the psycho parent, the team mom, all of them. I started to lose clarity and appreciation for the book once Patrick started flying and Randy went off the deep end but it definitely was still an enjoyable quick read. Thank you!

Thank you NetGalley and Brett Paesal for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I loved LOVE LOVED the cover of this book which is why I requested it.

If Class Mom was the book for class moms, then this is the book for SPORTS parents. Honestly, its easy reading, laugh out loud funny and just great writing.
Great read!!

Coach Randy is the main character in this story, but several others are integral to the book as well. You get a good picture of Randy, his team, and several of the team parents. Plenty of dysfunction lies underneath the glossy surface, and as Randy spirals downward the lack of substance in the majority of the group shows through.

So, I got used to the email/messages format and thought it did give insight to each person's personality. There were a few parts that lagged somewhat for me and I found myself skimming. I don't require a "happy ending", but just felt the lack of .anything for Randy to get back to was boring - perhaps a spectacular jump off the deep-end would have been more satisfying.
There were quite a few easily recognizable human foibles present, which I think was what got through me to the end of the book. The author did a good job on some very realistic characters and their faults.

A very distressful book, if this is what happens in suburban communities' . Coaching kids is something adults should do to mentor kids but this book makes you wonder. The parents in this book were lying ,cheating , judgmental and anything else bad you can think of. However, they did care about their kids and soccer.
The book was a lot of emails back and forth so you had to keep track of the email addresses so you knew who
was talking to whom. Not a fan of this book or it's story line.

This was a decent read for a light suburban mom commentary style novel. I'm a sucker for an epistolary novel, so I really appreciated the email exchanges as a way to get to know the public image of the characters, and then the prose chapters that showed the reader that things weren't always what they seemed. I did feel like the story was a little light on plot and detail, but overall it was enjoyable.

I got a free copy from NetGallery and would like to say I enjoyed it, but I did not. The story may have been good, but I wouldn't know as the format and more so the characters were just a total turn off for me. I have been a youth coach myself and had some annoying contact with parents, but in this book through the emails at the start of the book all I could see were not just parents of young kids but also the youth coach communicating with each other via email in a really irritating manner. The coach was so annoying, I just felt like telling him to shut up. How could he ever expect respect from kids and parents with that style of communication? He is the type of person I would stay really far away from. Anyways, I wanted to know what the story was all about but every time I picked it up and read more of these annoying team emails I cringed and thanked the Lord that I do not have this kind of drama in my life and therefore I decided not to spend any more time on finishing the book. There are so many other books on my to read list that it's not worth wasting time on a book where the characters annoy me this much, even if the copy of the book was free. Of course this is just my personal opinion and other reviewers seem to have really enjoyed it, so maybe it's a tolerance level issue or a cultural thing... who knows.

Everything is Just Fine is a whirlwind cyclone of crazy events, situations and mess ups that happen to the parents of a Beverly Hills youth soccer team. As you move through the pages, things get messier and wilder than imaginable. People struggling with their true failures. Messy remains of divorces. Cheating spouses. All the while, they root for and encourage the kids on the soccer team.

"Sometimes when we lose, it's hard to remember that a lot of great things are still happening."

The plot didn't intrigued me that much but when I started reading, oh boy, I couldn't stop. I'm not a parent nor do I like sports but the narrative was so good! I loved that the story was told from different viewpoints and e-mail conversations. The characters were well drawn in their language. Some were truly annoying but so real. Following their lives was really entertaining. Balancing secrets to maintain the picture of a perfect life, the characters struggle with marital and divorce problems, insecurities and unhappiness. It's funny, hilarious and I still think about poor Randy. It's emotional and sad while being entertaining. Very humane and depressing but with great comedy.

This was a lovely read after reading many crime books, This book delves into the emotional of many people and families that make up a football team, The highs and lows, Lots of different stories from the parents. I feel sad for poor Randy the coach who is trying to help everyone but loses his own way. Relationships are complicated but this book shows the need for trust, honesty and speaking to each other,

'Everything Is Just Fine' is one of those books that slowly grows on you -- you are not particularly hooked at the beginning but after a while it dawns on you that the plot is actually quite interesting to follow.

The story focuses on a Beverly Hills Junior Soccer team coach Randy and several of the team parents who discuss the team business in a series of group emails. Chapter by chapter we get to know these adults and their sons and glimpse at their lives -- seemingly perfect but each with its own unhappinesses.

The structure of this novel is peculiar -- it's made up of a great number of emails and text messages as well as good ol' narration. If you've ever been a part of a group discussion, chat, whatsoever online, you'll find these email exchanges infuriatingly accurate -- and immensely annoying, which adds to the verisimilitude of the story.

The only thing that really bothered me was the present tense of the narration which in no way diminishes the value of the writing and is more indicative of my personal preferances.

There's this underlying sadness to the story and the situations that are shown will be familiar to many readers -- each of us knows some one or other who has faced this or that issue in there lives. But most importantly, the book reiterates that there is hope and the light at the end of the tunnel.

And that, one way or another. everything will be fine.