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.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for granting me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.

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.

As soon as I started reading O’Clover’s The Someday Daughter, I knew that I'll like it. I could tell that this was going to be a book with some weight to it; a novel that examined life and relationships through the eyes of an emotionally conflicted teenage girl with the gravitas they deserve. YA fiction has unfortunately, too often, taken a turn for the worse as of late, and often feels as if it is being written with an agenda in mind. The Someday Daughter takes me back to the YA fiction we were getting 10-15 years ago - a time when novels dealt with teens grappling with authentic and relatable emotions and relationships. This book is purely about a complicated mother-daughter relationship, the pressures of going to college and being a perfectionist at the same time, and figuring out love for the first time. These are all things most teenagers face, making this story accessible, but O’Clover has also made her novel intriguing by having her main character play out these feelings with an unwanted spotlight overhead.
Overall I loved it would definitely recommend.

What a beautiful, emotional ride! The many relationships in this book were woven together with their own complexities really well, and I found myself rooting for the MC and LI all the way. The mental health rep was raw and believable. I’m forever an Ellen O’Clover stan!

This was such a beautiful story. I am loving branching out of my normal reads and finding new authors to enjoy.
I will say that it took me awhile to get into this one. I was a bit slow to connect to the characters. But once I did I couldn’t put it down, and the ending. Oh my gosh. So good.

I love the FMC, Audrey, and related to her so much throughout. Seeing her personal growth and her relationships shift and change was so enjoyable and written so well.

This is a coming of age, learning how to say no, working through life when things don’t go according to plan, figuring out who she is story with some romance and family drama sprinkled throughout. It is a YA, which I am learning that I love, and I’d definitely recommend this one!

Thank you @NetGalley for the opportunity to read this!

Ellen O'Clover, at two books in, is so deeply underrated. Her books are reminiscent of Sarah Dessen or Morgan Matson or Rachel Lynn Solomon. Just all the best YA coming of age ladies, while bringing something fresh. Her characters are more complex, and she manages to balance all the complications of teenage girl-dom well, with nuance and so much care. This one follows Audrey, who is forced to spend her last summer before college on a book tour with her psychotherapist mother, a group of quirky interns and a young doctor who will guide her in some pre-college work. Despite the extensive cast of characters, no one feels underdeveloped. Audrey's love interest, Silas, is the standout, but her mom and the other interns are great too. Also, I'm such a sucker for a teenage girl learning to loosen up while traveling, and this does that so perfectly. I just really adored Audrey's moments of walking barefoot and dancing at the honky-tonk.

My one minor complaint is that I wish we had just one more big heart to heart between Audrey and her mother. Much of the book is about their complicated relationship, and I think one more conversation could've wrapped it all up nicely. That being said, it felt realistic to how mothers and daughters truly are, which I liked.

Ultimately, this was just a nice reminder as to why I love this genre and these sort of books. Teenage girls are truly so lucky to have this and titles like it. I am excited to recommend Ellen O'Clover's work to so many teens.

This book has an interesting premise so I was intrigued to see where it would go. I thought it was pretty slow to get going so it did take me a while to get into it, but once I did it was a good read.

There's some good mental health rep in this book which was great to see! However, I felt like the story jumped around quite a lot and I wanted more from some aspects which were skipped over, and then less of some areas that were focused on more extensively.

I also worked out the twist fairly early on but if I hadn't that would have been a nice addition.

I really enjoyed this book once it got going. The first half was a little slow however the plot twist!!!

I would be very keen to read more by this author.

The perennially conflicted mother-daughter relationship is a tale as old as time, and a rite of passage that many of us go through … and are still combating well into adulthood. Which is what makes Ellen O’Clover’s The Someday Daughter such an important and relatable book for teenage & young adult girls.

O’Clover’s new novel follows Audrey, the eponymous someday daughter of Camilla, a self-help guru and therapist who became wildly famous after she penned a book, Letters to My Someday Daughter when she was just 24 years old, long before Audrey was even born. Audrey is now here and a teen, and has spent her entire life in the shadow of her mother’s success, labeled time and time again as the “someday daughter.” The weight of being Camilla’s daughter is crushing, and Audrey knows something that no one else does - that being the daughter of the woman with all of the answers is not everything it is cracked up to be.

Audrey has big plans to be a doctor, and has her sights set on spending her summer before college in an intensive pre-med training program, but soon finds her hopes dashed when her mother insists she join her on a cross-country tour to celebrate Letters to My Someday Daughter’s 25th anniversary. There is nothing Audrey would rather do less than spend time with her mother on stage in front of thousands of adoring fans, answering awkward questions with a fake smile plastered across her face.

However, this will prove to be a life-altering summer for Audrey as she begins to learn more about her mother and her choices … and herself. As Audrey preps to head out to college, the stakes are high - this suffocating summer will either make or break her relationship with Camilla. But which will it be?

As soon as I started reading O’Clover’s The Someday Daughter, I knew that I had a winner in my hands. Poignant and reflective right off the bat, I could tell that this was going to be a book with some weight to it; a novel that examined life and relationships through the eyes of an emotionally conflicted teenage girl with the gravitas they deserve. YA fiction has unfortunately, too often, taken a turn for the worse as of late, and often feels as if it is being written with an agenda in mind. The Someday Daughter takes me back to the YA fiction we were getting 10-15 years ago - a time when novels dealt with teens grappling with authentic and relatable emotions and relationships. This book is purely about a complicated mother-daughter relationship, the pressures of going to college and being a perfectionist at the same time, and figuring out love for the first time. These are all things most teenagers face, making this story accessible, but O’Clover has also made her novel intriguing by having her main character play out these feelings with an unwanted spotlight overhead.

Recommended to teenage girls just embarking on their life’s journey - this novel would make a great high school graduation present for all of the avid readers out there!