Jane seems to have the perfect life; a handsome and successful husband, lovely daughter and Jane is the chairwoman of the PTA. However, all isn't as it seems and one secret if revealed could destroy it all.

At first glance the anger that makes Jane eventually snap could be devastating but the humour of the novel was laugh out loud. An addictive novel that resonated with me and kept me laughing all the way through.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

See Jane Snap is about everything building up in your life until you can't take it anymore and you literally snap! Many laugh out loud moments along with heartbreaking problems that have to remain hidden. A quick read that I really enjoyed!!

This story took me by surprise but not in a bad way.

I’m not sure what I was expecting but it wasn’t this story. It was a bit unnerving, smartly comedic and a life rally/romance. When I first started I wasn’t sure this was going to be for me. It read like a “Housewives of whatever…” type drama with too many characters with ridiculous problems and their shrinks on speed dial. But quickly you see that Jane is barely holding it together and her problems are a bit more complex.

Jane’s snap, when it happens, is laugh out loud funny. I felt for some of these characters, couldn’t help myself. But after this event there’s some clarity, growth and good stuff. It was a nice unexpected ride. Check it out.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and Montlake for a copy in exchange for a review.

I laughed out loud multiple times in this book. We all have those days where everything seems to be going wrong and we don’t think we can handle one more thing. Jane has been having a string of those days. This book was so relatable.

Jane Osbourne has everything you could want in life, a perfect husband, a gorgeous child, the ideal house, and time to help support good works across the city as well as fundraise for the hospital her husband works at, But when she finds out its all a based on a lie and that she's meant to just carry on regardless, its all too much and she snaps - without giving anything away, the cover image of the book is perfect. This leads to therapy sessions with other female offenders, and the group forms a bond unlike any others that Jane has in her life.
Entertaining and eye-opening, it was a bit too American for me as a British reader at times, but I enjoyed it nonetheless
A solid 3 stars

Good fun book. Nothing mind blowing but also entertaining. I would pick up if you are looking for something easy but a little predictable

- Jane is a thirty-nine-year-old woman, married to a successful surgeon, heads the PTA and several volunteer committees and has her mother in a well-appointed memory care facility.

- Jane appears to “have it all,” but look closer, and you’ll see the rubber band she wears to snap against her wrist whenever she has unwanted thoughts.

-Jane learns her husband of 18 years has been living a secret life. Even though she is betrayed, she agrees to up appearances of a happily married couple until a significant donation from a wealthy conservative couple is secured that will fund a new surgical wing.

-In the second half of the book, after Jane has snapped in grand style, she’s offered a new challenge that gives her a fresh perspective on her life, prompting her to make some important changes.

-A few things detracted from my overall reading enjoyment and didn't work for me:
•The book describes a prescribed brand-name medication in a way I felt was misrepresentative and negatively adds to the stigma around mental health medications.
•I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the secret Jane is asked to keep on her husband’s behalf as a plot device, although I understand the situational reason he wished her to help him.
•Jane overhears a woman speaking in a language she doesn’t understand but likens to the sound of “trying to clear a hairball,” which read micro-aggressive to me.

Even with these distractions, this book is often funny but takes a serious look at the pressure women put themselves under to be all things to all people while putting their dreams and happiness at risk.

Talk about shade. A life in a tailspin. Jane has a family a daughter she adores, a heart surgeon for a husband, school commitments , life is skippy. A trip to Denver opens a door on her husband with someone else and her life in a spiral she fights to unravel. Living behind a facade of harmony proves too much for Jane , resulting in a court appointed program and reevaluation of her life and needs. Jane snaps out of it and back on track but not without a really funny journey.

This book was not what I expected but that definitely was not a bad thing! I thoroughly enjoyed this story and was rooting for Jane through the whole thing.

This is a very enjoyable, humorous and yes, at times, sappy read about Jane who is trying to portray an image of a happily married woman when she is anything but however, she must maintain the image at all cost right?

Jane has a perfect life. She has a perfect marriage to the perfect physician husband. She has the perfect daughter in the best school and everything is … well, not perfect really. But Jane wants to keep up the pretense of perfection though. But it’s a lot of stress trying to maintain a facade.

It is fun to see the hoity-toity fail, isn’t it? Well, we are human enough to enjoy a character’s misery. Laughing at a fictional character’s misfortune is just so much fun. I liked this setup although it seems too much in line with the Grace and Frankie storyline. This was light-hearted fun romp of a book to help when you just need to blow off life and have a good time.

I had a difficult time with this book.

I think this story handles a few difficult topics including mental health and coming out, but I think it handles them poorly.

Jane is struggling and the author doesn't ever really do a good job of showing her work through her problems. We don't see much growth we just see anger and then distraction. And the husband who is in the closet and struggling with shame, is turned into the villain of the story. He gaslights Jane, manipulates her and makes her feel bad about herself for trying to find something that made her happy even though he could (privately) do as he pleased without worrying about her response. None of this story sat well with me.

I believe that if an author wants to write a story about "snapping" from a mental health problem and then have the character appear to recover from it, they need to do it better than it was done here. Very disappointed in this one.

Jane Osborne appears to the world like she has a charmed life. Her daughter attends private school. Jane chairs the PTA. Even her marriage to Dan, the handsome, prominent surgeon, is blissfully happy. But everything is a facade. Behind the perfect exterior Jane's world is crumbling down and she is close to her breaking point. When Jane one day snaps and she feels at her lowest she is forced to take a look at what is important and how she wants to go on with her life.

See Jane Snap by Bethany Crandell is both witty, funny and has the right amount of cheese as well as full of emotion and good message. I think there are alot of Janes out there who feel like we have to be perfect and put together a there for the people around us and get a bit overwhelmed.
I liked how Jane found allies where she wasn't expecting and how she reluctantly found herself and let go.

Synopsis: When two people fall in love with the same dog but were already hesitant about commitment in the dog they figure out a way to share the same dog.

Thought: This book was the perfect romantic book about finding love in unexpected places. I was immediately drawn into this book with my love of dogs and being able to rescue dogs and definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a romantic book about puppies and undeserving love. I enjoyed the different character viewpoints I think that this was well done and would definitely even read again.

I love when the right book finds me at the right time. While my life isn’t exactly like Jane’s, I absolutely have felt the pressure mounting as a woman, wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, professional…I see you Jane, I see you.

Jane is holding her life together with positive thinking tapes, deep breathing techniques and a rubber band - literally - and when a series of revelations shakes her entire life to the core, she finds herself in a grocery store parking lot when that rubber band snaps.

I loved…
💕 Jane’s honest struggle with managing it all and reluctance to acknowledge needing help.
💕 Jane’s Second Wives Club friends and the women she meets at group - and the surprising ways they reveal themselves to her.
💕 The vigilante rescue mission.
💕 Officer Sexypants.

Read this if..
📚You often feel the need to be everything to everybody at every moment.
📚 You’ve ever felt overwhelmed enough to toss citrus fruit.

Jane Osborne is desperately trying to preserve the facade of her ‘perfect life’, even though her handsome, successful husband of 18 years is sleeping with someone else (and not for the first time), her twelve year old daughter is getting in trouble at school, and, after a supermarket car park incident involving oranges and a purloined ecstasy tablet, she’s been ordered to attend a First Offender’s Group to avoid jail.

In this witty contemporary novel, Bethany Crandall explores the struggle of a wife and mother to keep it altogether while everything is falling apart. Jane is under tremendous pressure to protect her husband’s career, her daughter’s innocence, and her mother’s care needs, and expected to suppress her feelings of betrayal, guilt and anger. Though the specifics of Jane’s trials may not be familiar, it’s very easy to empathise with the strain she is under, and honestly who hasn’t been tempted to throw something at a person who insists on going through a 12 item only check out with twice as many groceries!

Jane’s parking lot meltdown, and the consequences of mistaking an ecstasy pill for Zoloft, had me laughing out loud. Though the event, and subsequent punishment, seems like it can only make everything worse, it serves as a catalyst for Jane to confront her situation, and figure out how to move forward. I really liked the friendships Jane developed in the group, and the unexpected romantic connection with her arresting officer. I was absolutely always on Jane’s side, and felt Crandall’s development of her character was thoughtful and realistic.

See Jane Snap is often funny but also provides some astute observations about the difficult balance many women face between the needs of others and themselves. This is a light, entertaining and engaging read.

I loved this book! It had me laughing out loud so many times! I could totally relate to Jane. I have severe anxiety and sometimes I would just love to snap. I loved the friendships that she made in her class! Burty was my favorite of the friends. Her talent to crochet and knit certain items (you gotta read the book to find out what she makes!) had me rolling! The author did a fabulous job making me feel what Jane was feeling! If you love books that make you laugh out loud, this book is for you!

This book is about a woman that has so much stress in her life that she finally snaps.

I could certainly relate to Jane due being a busy mom, busy wife, and also helping my sister and mom. I think other people would find her relatable as well. I think her situation with her husband is interesting, and unless I was in the same situation, I’m not sure how I would react.

Overall I enjoyed this fast paced book.

This funny and very real book has me thinking about female anger. In the real world, women are very much appreciated for “keeping it together,” even if our lives are falling apart. And being angry, whether at your husband, your boss, or someone else, is generally frowned upon.. (Could this also be why many of us also love thriller books about female psychos, who really get to “let it all out?”) Anyway - this book is a refreshing and interesting change of scenery from a lot of the more “perfect” romance books out there.

In this book, Jane’s perfect marriage to her successful surgeon husband is falling apart - because she has recently learned he is gay and has been having relationships with men all throughout her marriage. But Jane feels pressure to keep her “perfect” life looking perfect, as her husband provides all kinds of reasons he can’t possibly come out right now, mainly relating to his “important” job. Jane represses her inner anger until, as the title reveals, she snaps - in a very funny way. The rest of the book deals with Jane coming to terms with her marriage and what to do about it. There’s a fun little romance as well
I won’t spoil.

I enjoyed this one and really want to hand it to the author for making feminine anger both so relatable and so funny. This is a laugh-out-loud page turner with heart. 4+ stars!

See Jane Snap was a book that I got to read as a buddy read and I must say that the buddy read enriched my reading experience.

Jane is a harried wife and mother buckling under the strain of a large secret, an unfulfilling marriage, and her child’s busy life. Seeking a little relief, she makes a big mistake that puts even more strain on her. She eventually has a happy ending but much happens along the way!

I very much enjoyed a peek into a “perfect life” that is really a mess. I loved how Jane initially judges several new friends who later become rocks for her, making her realize that snap judgements are damaging. I also liked how Jane came to know more about herself and saw how this affected her earlier decisions in life. All of this made the book feel relatable for me.

Now, for the enlightenment: there were a few issues from the book raised by others in the buddy read that probably would have slipped my notice, given my life experience and privilege. The beauty of the buddy read is that I could consider these opinions that vary from mine and come to a deeper understanding of others.