4 ⭐️

Troupes: friends to lovers, collage romance, found family, fame & self-discovery, forced summer together

The Someday Daughter is a YA contemporary romance focused on self-discovery, coming into your own and being comfortable with yourself. A huge focus of this book was navigating the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship / miscommunication and it was beautifully written.

Audrey and her mother never had the relationship every one thought they had, it was rocky and very superficial. Audrey was desperate to create her own identity and to start a life away from her mothers shadow and the fame that has been a constant her entire life because of her mothers book “The Someday Daughter” - to others it was a source of inspiration and guidance but to Audrey it was nothing but a front that her mother created. She finally had her way out but as soon as she had one foot out the door after graduating high school her mother made her go on a celebratory book tour for a milestone anniversary of her book and now she was forced to go with her all over the country instead of having the summer she planned on being the start to her new life on her own. This forced summer together allowed Audrey to see her in a new light and worked through not only her own personal issues but begin to repair the broken relationship they had.

This had a great found family aspect to it and the new friendships and adventures Audrey had helped her learn to let go of things and not take everything so seriously. I adored Silas, his adorable dog and the rest of the interns! I laughed, cried and overall really enjoyed this book.

This was my second book by this author and I highly recommend it! Also check out her book “Seven Percent of Ro Devereux”

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Collin’s Children’s Books and Ellen O’Clover for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’m ages late to this review but I absolutely loved this one! Highly recommend you check it out!

The characters and the plot are very engaging.

The Someday Daughter is mother and daughter relationship core. I loved not only the ways that Audrey comes to term with herself, but also her relationship with her mother. We all can think of a moment when our parents transitioned from being a parent to a person. When there's this moment of disillusionment, of pulling aside the curtain. And The Someday Daughter exists as a step on this journey of seeing our relationship with our parents more as people, as people who make mistakes, and have regrets. At the same time, it's a story about realizing that when we are so focused on what we think is the next step, we miss out on the now.

**Netgalley Backlog Day**

Today, I’m excited to share my thoughts on *The Someday Daughter* by Elle O'Clover.

Welcome back to another Friday Netgalley Backlog! In this week’s review, I found *The Someday Daughter* to be a quick and engaging read. The story beautifully captures the nuances of relationships through the lens of a mother-daughter dynamic, exploring themes of motherhood, young adulthood, and personal growth.

We follow Audrey, who is reluctantly forced to spend her summer before starting pre-med on a book tour with her controlling mother. The first half of the book sets the stage, but I found the second half to be more captivating and transformative. I especially appreciated the representation of mental health and how it underlines the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship.

Overall, it’s a poignant tale that resonates with anyone who has navigated the challenges of familial expectations and personal identity.

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Before anything else, The Someday Daughter is a beautiful, compelling, emotional story about family. The story focuses on Audrey, forced to go on a book tour with her mother, with whom she has a complicated relationship.
It’s also about the complicated relationship between Audrey and her mental health, especially her anxiety. I’ll be honest: I didn’t quite see the way this book would hit me coming, when I first started reading it. But oh, it did. The way Audrey feels about her own mental health, the way she thinks about her own anxiety and just, feels… not going to lie, it hit me hard. It made me cry. I think I cried like, three times while reading this book and woah I did not expect that. So, that was good.
Audrey’s a great main character to follow, really. Aside from her very relatable anxiety, she’s determined, she has goals, she’s ambitious and just does not want to give up. I loved her for that and cared for her so, so much.
I just loved the way the secondary characters were shaped, as well. They’re all three dimensional and, as you get to know them a bit better, you start understanding them, as well. I just felt things for everyone and it was such a great, well-rounded cast of characters overall.

It feels secondary in this book, but The Someday Daughter has such a lovely romance, as well. I absolutely adored Silas, the way he cares, the way he is, his adorable little pug with him always. I found the way their relationship grew as the story went on fantastic. It wasn’t overwhelming, nor did it cast a shadow on the main topic of the book (a.k.a family and anxiety). It was just great okay.
I smiled, I cried, I felt things, I just loved this okay.

I think it’s safe to say that Ellen O’Clover is one of my favorite authors. I just adored The Someday Daughter and can’t wait to read everything and anything she will write, next. Highly recommending this one for any YA contemporary fans, especially of books dealing with family and mental health.

A sweet read, I really enjoyed the friendships and romance, and the development with the relationships

Ellen O'Clover's writing hits at the heart of what it feels like to be a teenager and all of the feelings that come with navigating that period in life where you are expected to begin down a path you have never walked before all while trying to prove that you can. It's gut-punching in the best way.

I thought this would book would take a harder look at influencer/family vlog culture and the impacts on the children but it felt like the main character's parents got off somewhat scot-free. A solid 3 star read but not what I had been expecting based on the subject matter.

So well-written. A beautiful depiction of a mother-daughter relationship, anxiety and depression, the downfalls of perfectionism.

I thought this was very good and I will have to add this to the shop shelves. Thank you for the chance for us to review.

Beautifully written!! The healing and love in this book is sooooo good! Love everything Ellen writes, the meaning and emotion in her art is amazing.

Very sweet and the surprise at the end was really well done! I could have used a little more build up with Silas but otherwise I liked the romance and the friendships. I also particularly liked the way her relationship with her mom develops and how we get to watch them realize how to love each other better.

This is a quick read and engaging story with solid writing. Audrey is an anxiety ridden teen facing a national book tour with her mother the summer before her freshman year of college when she'd MUCH rather be at a summer pre-med program.

Pros: Quick Read, Emotionally Relatable Characters, Important Discussion of Social Media

Cons: Lot of Privilege, Overall Relatability for Teens?

Before Audrey was born, Camilla, published a self-help book titled Letters to My Someday Daughter. That book immediately became a hit among women. So her whole life Audrey feels like she’s a promotional project for Camilla’s book, and that Camilla never sees nor understand the real Audrey, who has plans and dreams for herself.

This book navigates complicated mother-daughter relationship, with a side of romance. It was raw
but I found some parts to be a bit boring, and mostly forgettable.

First and foremost, Ellen O'Clover's writing is great! And in the future, I will continue to read whatever she writes.

But unfortunately, The Someday Daughter was not my cup of tea. I struggled with the story itself and some of the plot choices. One of the big issues for me is that the MC, Audrey, has a boyfriend for most of the book. That made the tension and budding romance with the love interest, Silas, feel stilted and kind of wrong. Right away, it's painfully obvious that Audrey's boyfriend is more of a study partner than a love interest, yet they remain together for most of the book.

Audrey felt cold, standoffish and guarded for most of the book. She was in so much pain and so hyper-focused on the summer program at Penn. that it overshadowed the happy and cute moments. It felt like the character development and the budding romance took a long time and it was a bit frustrating. Unfortunately, I did not feel a connection to the characters.

Even though this book was not for me, O'Clover's writing is great. I flew through the book effortlessly. It's a smooth and quick read. It kept me guessing. It touches on topics that I feel many can relate to, like navigating difficult mother-daughter relationships and mental health awareness.

Thank you Netgalley and Harper Teen for the opportunity to read this book and provide an honest review.

Why is it always so hard to write a review for a book I absolutely loved? Why can’t I just say “please for the love of god read this book because I love it so much” and call it a day? Because this is what I want to say about The Someday Daughter. I apparently forgot how well Ellen O’Clover can write because I was sucked into this story quicker than I could blink. The first chapter already introduces the central problems and characters of the story and I immediately wanted to know more about each.

I really liked Audrey as a main character and she told the story. I could understand how she feels and why she does so. She is, without realizing at first, searchign for her true self. Thanks to her upbringing, school and interests, she feels like she has to fit certain rules and basically wears a mask all the time, making her unsure of who she really is. Very early on in the story that mask cracks though, and she realizes that there is much more to her and the people around her than she thought.

I liked how Audrey’s relationships with the other characters developed, how over the course of the summer they get to truly know each other. This icludes her relationship with herself as well and her journey to accept her flaws but also see others’ perspectives. Those developments were really well written, with ups and downs, realizations and set backs, with forgiveness, love, trust and insecurities. The relationships felt very real and I loved how they each were explored. There is the mother-daughter relationship that is strained but discussed in depth. Then there are the romantic aspects and how they develop, how one person might be right for a certain stage in life but not for another, how growing close changes perspectives and allows for new trust. I also enjoyed how the friendships in The Someday Daughter were portrayed. There was so much love between the characters, boundaries were respected and everyone kept strengthening each other despite their hurts or refusals. Generally, there was so much love between those characters. In very different forms, sometimes established, other times taking its time to grow. And each character was written with so much love, too. I enjoyed the whole cast immensely.

The Someday Daughter made me feel a lot of emotions. I cried a couple of times but my heart was mended each time. It’s such a beautiful story with amazingly written relationships. It’s a love letter to familial relationships, a portray of self discovery and self acceptance as well as understanding yourself and the people surrounding you. The Someday Daughter was definitely one of my favourite reads this year and I’m highly excited to read more by Ellen O’Clover. Her books seem to hit my heart right in the middle each time.

Its’s clear that Audrey feels her mother is always using her for social media attention and yet she wants to be closer to her so that they can finally have a real relationship - the author embraced the messiness of their dynamic but I felt there was lack of resolution as the Audrey continued to be disappointed and I felt she never stood up for herself and had the redemption I was waiting for.

While I was interested to read this story of a unique mother-daughter relationship, it overall fell flat for me. It was definitely a character driven story rather than plot driven, but I felt all of the characters lacked depth - including Audrey herself, her boyfriend, as well as the intern, Silas, that she takes interest in - which led to lack of chemistry between them.

** thanks to NetGalley for the ARC and chance to read and review **

Although I think the book was good, it was quite slow and I had honestly forgot about it for a good while since putting it down.

I think the idea of the influencer parent is very relevant right now, and it was interesting to see how that affected the present and current situation between Audrey and her mom.

I didn't really feel much for the characters and I thought the growth in the story was poor.

But even so, it was an enjoyable enough book and I'm grateful to the publishers for providing me with an earc!

For being a YA romance, The Someday Daughter highlights the heartbreaking reality of being a girl becoming a woman who is also learning who her mother is. The pieces of this story play off each other in such a heartfelt and endearing way that the real message we take from the book has little to do with romance and everything to do with a mother/daughter relationship.

A fantastic read!

I think this book will stick with me for a long time! I struggled to get into it for some reason, but about half way through it picked up the pace and I really enjoyed the evolution of Audrey’s self discovery.

The delightful side characters really rallied around the FMC’s flaws and carried her through. Ellen O’Clover truly has a gift for creating the dreamiest MMC. I found myself swooning throughout their growing connection.

Though I was slow to fall in, once I did I fell in love with The Someday Daughter.