Thank you so much to #netgalley and the publisher for the Arc.

Millie reminded me of my Grams, well to a point. My grams didn't really commit any felonies. A story of three generations that is told with humor and with heart. Millie was really the book for me. Her son, well he kind of irked me a lot. It actually almost seemed cliche. A quirky zany mom and grandmom whose child is more serious, dry etc. However I was able to look past that and really enjoy the book!

A lovely entertaining read.The perfect story to escape our world into theirs.Three generations each character entertaining come alive.A book I will be recommending,#netgalley#atriabooks

Millie Gogarty is a strong willed 83 year old who is caught shoplifting. Her son, Kevin, has had enough and sets Millie up with a home aide. Kevin has plenty more problems than his mother committing petty crimes. He is unemployed and unable to find work, leaving his wife to work long hours at an airline to keep the family afloat. Kevin is also dealing with his 16 year old daughter's outbursts, which have gotten out of hand and now he has to put her into a boarding school. Both Millie and her granddaughter find themselves in a mess and team up to solve things but they end up going awry.

I found this to be an amusing book that was lighthearted but it fell a bit flat for me. I didn't really connect with most of the characters except for Millie. I felt Kevin was whiney and nothing going for him. He was so caught up in his own struggles that he failed to see that those around him needed him. Kevin's wife, Grace, felt very underdeveloped and like a shell of a character. I wanted more depth from their marriage and didn't get much. I thought Millie's antics were hilarious and over the top. Millie was what made this book for me and she kept the plot interesting and funny, she was always up to something ridiculous. There were also moments where I really enjoyed Kevin's daughter and seeing her perspective in the book. She's your typical misunderstood teenager character and I wanted to see more character growth from her, there was some but I think she could've been better.
I thought the plot pacing was good but the beginning did drag a bit, the last part of the book has a lot more action and there's a lot going on. This is a book that doesn't take long to read and there are some laughs along the way but I don't think this will be a particularly memorable read for me.

Overall, Millie was a gem of a character and this is a quick, light read but I thought it was just ok.

Thank you to Netgalley and Atria Books for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review. As always, all opinions are my own.

3.5 stars. This book had such a crazy, fun family dynamic. I really enjoyed the Irish humor and how each family members story was crazier than the next. It still all wove together beautifully though and was incredibly heartwarming. This book however did feel a little long winded, so it drag during some parts for me, but overall i enjoyed it. Thank you to Netgalley and Atria Books for the ARC.

3.5/5 I'd call this a "cozy caper"- meaning that it's a fun read with dopey characters and the stakes aren't really all that high. This would be a good read if you're stressed out and looking for something a little bit silly, a little bit Irish, and a little bit unpredictable.

NOTE: Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced reader's copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

From the description, I really thought I would love this book about a multigenerational family in Dublin. The last quarter of the book is great - the pace picks up, the action is more exciting, the humor is there, the characters become more likeable. Unfortunately, the first three-quarters of the book drags and the characters' actions make them hard to root for. I found myself pushing through to read the book instead of wanting to read during all my free time. But once I hit about 75% in, I stayed up reading to the end and at least had a satisfying ending. I wish the capers that happen toward the end of the book that make it fun had actually begun earlier in the story and took up a greater part of the book, since that was the part of the plot I enjoyed most.

This was so filled with heart and soul, that it’s exactly the salve we need for these dark days. Millie and Addine are a riot, and I am happy to talk this super novel up to folks looking for some Irish charm and human joy.

Growing older, no matter your stage in life, has ups and downs as time progresses, but the presence of these bumps seem to be universal across three generations in Rebecca Hardiman’s Good Eggs.

Millie Gogarty is an odd yet affable octogenarian who’s been caught shoplifting, again, from the local shop and is finally being taken in by the authorities. Kevin, her middle-aged and recently unemployed son, comes to bail her out of the mess she’s made but he tells Millie that she’s only allowed to go home again if she allows a caretaker to keep an eye on her a few days of the week. Kevin already has to manage his full house of children while his wife’s job keeps her traveling extensively. One of the children, a teenaged Aideen, seems to seek out trouble befitting her sulky behavior and picking fights with her twin. After being sent off to a boarding school, Aideen becomes friends with a rebellious girl, leading her into more turbulent waters. Sylvia, the American hired to look after Millie, seems to be a great addition to this wild group but she might just prove to be a harbinger of greater chaos into the already messy lives of the Gogarty clan.

A generally light story of three generations of a dysfunctional family with their distinct, if stereotypical, personalities who create their obstacles to overcome, this narrative was an entertaining, quick, and rather humorous distraction from the seriousness of the world. Each of the main Gogarty characters are incredibly stubborn in their view of the world, those around them, and themselves, with their determination to prove themselves frequently serving as their undoing, in often laughable (if schadenfreude) ways. The pacing of the novel was slightly unbalanced, with the last few chapters moving far more engrossingly and swiftly as events finally begin to get resolved than the previous chapters that helped to slowly sett the scenarios up. While a common expression, “good egg,” or a variation thereof, was used incredibly frequently throughout the text, which resulted in a feeling of being hammered over the head with it instead of holding on to the novelty of the feeling of coming across the title in the text as a surprise.

Overall, I’d give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.

*I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Very engaging and humorous story of a family dealing with the older generation and the problems that ensue
The story was delightful and the characters were incredibly engaging. Very enjoyable read

Good premise but the synopsis is slightly misleading. I didn't find this heart-warming and slightly hard to get through. I stopped reading after a few chapters. I appreciate the advanced copy of this book.

Kevin is constantly worrying about both his mother, and his daughter Aideen. After both of them get themselves into a bit too much trouble, they run off on an adventure, leaving the rest of the family deeply worried.

3.5 stars. Ok so the first half of this book I enjoyed but it dragged a little but for me. The last quarter though, I found hysterical. I definitely would have liked to read more about the antics that Aideen and Millie managed to get into together. Overall this was a fun family drama with a side of humor! I could definitely see it being turned into a tv show, and I know my girl @irishgirliereads would swoon over the Irish accents, I mean, who am I kidding? So would I!

I was so grateful to have been provided a free e-galley copy of this book which was dubbed “the Irish Schitt’s Creek.” Unfortunately, I couldn’t really get into the story at all and just didn’t connect with it.

A fun, funny, darling read. This could be anyone’s family. I especially enjoy the Irish humor.
A cute book to recommend to someone looking for a lighter read during these troubled times.

A quirky and comically dysfunctional family is introduced in GOOD EGGS, by Rebecca Hardiman. Millie, the feisty eighty-three year old grandmother, waffles between her fierce determination to not succumb to senior stereotypes and her loss of focus (maybe due to age, but don't tell her that) that gets her in trouble. Aideen, her granddaughter, has such an independent spirit that she is being sent away to boarding school. Kevin, MIllie's son and Aideen's father, struggles to manage his mother, parent his daughter, not to mention his wife and other three kids. Then he has to squeeze in searching for a new job. When Millie and Aideen decide rebel against their situation, Kevin has his hands full trying to reign them in, or even find them.
Rebecca Hardiman creates some great characters within the Gogarty family and most readers will have at least one family member that they can relate to from their own family. Hardiman peppers in some nice subplots that surround the main story and each character, no matter how small, seems more interesting and unique than the last. The novel keeps moving and takes some fun turns, setting up some wonderfully humorous moments that had me laughing out loud. The ending is predictable, but the reader will neverthless enjoy the uplifting finish to a delighful tale.
In a literary world full of dystopias, epic battles, and melodramatic romances, GOOD EGGS is a light, entertaining piece of fun for any reader who wants to meet a wonderfully eccentric family full of laughs and love.

Good Eggs is a debut novel by Rebecca Hardiman. It is a story of three generations of the Gogarty family in Dublin, Ireland that is told with enough humor to make it endearing. While the main characters all have issues, they are generally “good eggs” who deserve a second chance.

The eighty-three-year-old widowed grandmother of the family is Millie Gogarty. The story starts with Millie shoplifting a greeting card she didn’t need from a local store. Her son, Kevin, picks her up from the police station with the understanding she will allow a part-time caregiver into the home. After another incident occurs later in the story, Kevin describes his mother as “a thief, (an arsonist?), a misanthropic malcontent, an exaggerator of mammoth proportions, a driver of sane sons to vivid fantasies of matricide.”

Kevin Gogarty is fifty-years-old, and recently unemployed after working for a celebrity news magazine. He is not up on his skills in digital publishing and is having trouble finding new employment. His wife of twenty years is very successful and travels often for her work. They have two sons and sixteen-year-old twin girls. One of the twins, Aideen, has been acting out to the point where she is sent to a local boarding school. Upon checking Aideen into the new school, Kevin becomes attracted to the young receptionist and starts pursuing her. Aideen’s only friend at school is a trouble-maker who drags Aideen down with her.

After the shoplifting incident, Kevin hires Sylvia, an American to be the caregiver. Millie enjoys Sylvia’s company. Aideen starts a sweet teenage romantic relationship with Sylvia’s nephew who has come to Ireland with her. Kevin fires Sylvia against Millie’s wishes. Sylvia tells Millie of an urgent medical need, and Millie gives Sylvia most of her savings. Afterward, things really start to fall apart for the Gogarty family. Two of the members take a surprise journey. In the end, it mostly works out for this family that is bound together by love.

4-Stars. I found this to be a light and enjoyable read after the seriousness of the last two novels I read. The novel will be published on March 2, 2021. Thank you Netgalley and Atria Books for my advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

There is a charm to this book, and if you want a pretty light, quick read with some humor, then I think a lot of people could enjoy it. Personally, it was hard to get into and the whole schtick felt very "done before" without adding much to stand out. I think the lack of interest had to do a lot of with the characters: Millie was more annoying than "quirky" and the rest of the family really wasn't that likeable.

This was a very fun read! The book is full of humor and it is a quick and light read which was just what I was looking for during these crazy times!!

Family members share personality traits. The Gogarty family shares the trait of self-absorption; they think primarily of themselves. Rebecca Hardiman’s work focuses on three members: determined Grandma Millie, unemployed Dad Brian and rebellious teen Aideen. The three of them can enumerate the injustices, the bad fortune and misery they inevitably face each day. This particular approach leads to bad choices, resulting in more misery. They continually judge others in terms of being “good eggs,”not always an accurate test. Millie is duped out of her savings; Brian comes close to committing adultery; Aideen at the urging of a classmate poisons a faculty member. When their worlds come crashing down simultaneously, the reader has the opportunity to see whether they will seek redemption by sharing time and concern for others.

I really enjoyed this book. It took a while to really like some of the characters, but I became quite invested ! The family drama was relatable, and I loved the adventure Millie and Aideen took to nab the elder care worker. It was a bit unrealistic of course, but fun nonetheless. It was good, light hearted reading and was a welcome quick read.
Thank you for the ARC!

I enjoyed reading this book as it was entertaining and a fast read (what I needed right now). For me, this book really highlights how we often let all of our past experiences with family members influence our future interactions sometimes so much so that we stop listening to and trying to understand others. I didn't feel like I connected to many of the characters but I also enjoyed some of the humor in the book.