A life coach who has life issues- the irony is so funny to me. The author did a great job of making this one funny too. A second chance romance and it was cute and sad all at the same time. I was so happy to see the FMC evolve over the book and really figure out a deeper level of what she wanted out of life.

🌀Synopsis
Caroline’s life is amazing. How could it not be? She’s a famous life coach helping everyone else make their lives better. Lurking beneath the surface is trouble, though. She figures out her husband has been cheating and she’s being sued.
Returning to her old stomping grounds, she finds several loose ends. One of them being the man she once loved. She left him to pursue more but the feelings are still there. The other is her old mentor, the one who is suing her. After trying to just smooth things over with both of them she realizes it’s going to take a lot more than that and sets out to make things right.

Some Doubt About It was a very enjoyable listen.  Caroline's life seems to have turned to custard, her marriage, her book and her TV show all seem to be in trouble.  Meanwhile back in Caroline's home town Devorah sits in her curmudgeonly life and berates Caroline.

Yet when Caroline returns to her home town there is a whole lot of facing into life as it was and as it might be.  Devorah doesn't make it easy for Caroline - yet there are some strong bonds there.

Caroline also reunites with her long friend Danny Diaz. A very nice guy. Will Caroline settle down with him?  Events follow that are  really sad. Through it all though Caroline will find out who she really is and what she really wants to do. I ended up perfectly satisfied with the outcome.

Erin Bennett narrates this perfectly, capturing the characters thoughts and emotions and paces the whole story very well. She narrates in a way that enhances the experience of the story.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/ 5 Stars
Happy pub day to Marion McNabb and Some Doubt About It! Thank you to @mcnabbmarion, Brilliance Audio, and NetGalley for allowing me to listen 🎧 to this book for an honest review.

📅 Tuesday, May 7, 2024 was the pub date for Some Doubt About It. 📅

🎧The narrator for this audiobook is Erin Bennett.🎧

Caroline Beckett is living her perfect life. She is a motivational life coach, an author, and is happily in love with her handsome photographer husband. But, something keeps nagging at her. You know that feeling you have when you are on top of the world right before someone knocks the world out from underneath you? Well, that’s the feeling Caroline has shortly after being interviewed on TV. She feels like the host was making fun of her mantra in a round about way and somehow that tipped her world off axis. A series of events occur that leave her no choice but to return to her home town. She reconnects with her mentor (once friend, now enemy, soon to be friend again) and learns she still has a lot of living and maturing to do.

I really enjoyed this read. It gives a fresh perspective on taking ownership of our mistakes and oversights while learning how to connect with and be loyal to the people that mean the most in our lives. Remember, you should never take a meaningful relationship for granted. Pour your heart and genuine time into the people that you treasure and will always remember!

I really enjoy stories of friends turned enemies that find their way back to being friends. This story is a little different in that Devorah was a mentor to Caroline, but the bonds of a deeper relationship are there. I adored Devorah and her attachment to her well-named dog, Mary Magdalene. Her gruff exterior hides a truly caring heart and her wit made me laugh out loud at times. Caroline is not as likeable and is a bit selfish at first, but she gradually won me over as she softened and changed. I did like how she eventually came back to her roots and realized what's important in life. The audiobook, narrated by Erin Bennett, is a lovely way to read this heart-warming novel of second chances.

I recently listened to Some Doubt About It, a novel, written by Marion McNabb and read by Erin Bennett.

Caroline Beckett is a self-help author. Everything is fine and dandy until a tabloid article sends her life spiraling. After her world begins crashing, Caroline returns to her hometown to speak with her long ago mentor, retired professor, Devorah Van Buren. Devorah is an older woman, whose quirky behaviors lead to her (and her chihuahua, Mary Magdaline) being kicked out of local restaurants

When Caroline returns to her family's home, she discovers her long-ago love still lives locally.

This is a sweet story with interesting characters. The narrator does a nice job voicing both Caroline and Devorah. It was an easy listen and kept me engaged.

Thank you to NetGalley and Brillance Audio for the advanced listen in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book was more than I could have imagined. Its hard to talk about this book with out doing spoilers. but what ever you think the 'perfect' ending is, this isn't it. but it also was. And if you haven't read the book, you are probably very confused by this review. but honestly, its perfect!

I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed it, the narrator was entertaining and the storyline was interesting. Parts of it made me laugh but there was also some heartbreaking moments as well. All in all, this would be a great beach read. Nothing too serious but a pretty solid book.

Wow! This was a roller coaster of a story!

We start off with Caroline, a self help entrepreneur, who has hit the jackpot! She’s written a book, and made many connections! But just as her life is blowing up, celebrity wise, it’s also falling apart.

She finds out her husband is not the faithful, wonderful being she believed he was. 😮. And, then finds out that her old mentor and friend is suing her for plagiarism...basically saying that the book she wrote was not hers!

She decides to return home to Cape Cod/ Nantucket to meet with her old mentor Devorah, to see if they can work things out.

Well, Devorah is a whip!! She’s old. She’s cranky. She puts up with no one and nothing! And she travels with her old rescue dog (chihuahua) Mary Magdalene everywhere! Like to restaurants…bars…etc. And, tends to get into fights with any and everyone who gives her a hard time along the way! She is known to give lip service to many!!

So when Caroline returns home, it’s no surprise that Devorah wants NOTHING to do with her! But Caroline is patient…and doesn’t give up so easily… and soon they are trying to work things out!

There is SO MUCH going on in this one…stuff that will make you laugh, as well as stuff that will make you cry. And, the characters are drawn very deep…so you really feel like you are their friends…

Then add in the fact that this is a small town where everyone knows everyone else, and words spread fast. And then, additionally, add in a love interest from their HS days…and, well, you’ve definitely got a hit on your hands!!

Very different! Mostly fun scenes, but with a few heartbreaking ones as well!

#SomeDoubtAboutIt by #MarionMcNabb and narrated beautifully by #ErinBennett.

4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!

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This book had it all! It was funny, heartbreaking, smart! I loved the main characters. Carolyn is a best selling author and Deborah is a professed. Carolyn experienced a very public scandals. She heads to her home town of Cape Code to cope and try and salvage her career. I really enjoyed this read. I liked the characters. The way the beaches, shops and locals are described it made me feel like I was there!

I went into this one thinking that it would be just another women’s fiction read. Boy, was I wrong, this is so much more. Caroline Beckett has everything until her husband cheats on her and her life begins falling apart. An old friend sues Caroline for plagiarism and ideas that made Caroline famous. Caroline packs up her stuff, and heads to her hometown to try to solve her issues. The characters all had a ton of depth and changes and grew throughout the story. The writing was captivating and drew me right in. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a great job portraying Caroline. This is a great summer read as the story takes place in Cape Cod.

First thing’s first: thank you Netgalley for the ALC of this book!
Some doubt about it follows Caroline, a self help author, as she navigates her very public divorce amid a cheating scandal and her going back to Cape Cod to convince her ex-mentor not to sue for plagiarism.
This book was bittersweet and funny at times and interesting enough that I enjoyed my listen. I didn’t think anything was groundbreaking about it and I probably won’t be thinking about it in the future, but I enjoyed my listen. It would be a good little beach read or pool reader for the coming summer! Some parts felt rushed or poorly fleshed out, but I don’t think it really took away from the story.
3⭐️

This is a well-timed release to be an enjoyable summer read. Caroline has become a celebrity self-help guru by bringing the work of stodgy old philosophers like Plato to the masses through, in the words of her former mentor Devorah, “sexing it up and dumbing it down.” Caroline has achieved fame and fortune in L.A. but, on an Emmy red carpet, everything goes sideways when reporters start asking about the video — the one she didn’t know existed of her husband cheating with her young assistant. Not only Is her marriage apparently over, but she is also being sued by Devorah for stealing her ideas for the book that made her famous. Caroline goes back to her hometown of Cape Cod to confront Devorah and ends up confronting the childhood she never fully finished grieving and the potential life and love she could have had.

I really enjoyed the character development here, particularly salty, strong Devorah with her straight-up drinks, no-filter comments and little dog Mary Magdelene. I also enjoyed the New England setting, which will speak to fans of books such as Elin Hilderbrand’s. There’s a scene where Caroline stops at a favorite ice cream shop of her youth and describes eating her treats that is so descriptive and resonant of those joyful times that we all connect through food to places we love. The only downside is that I didn’t feel a deep connectivity with any of the characters here as I sometimes do in books, where the intensity with which I’m rooting for them is carrying me through. This was a fast and fun read and one in which I was interested to know how everything turned out, but my attachment to the characters and interest in the philosophical thoughts it offers on life remained mostly at a surface level. I also did not connect with the second-chance romance plot development enough for it to make sense to me. Still, I enjoyed it and would recommend this as a summer/beach read!

This publishes on May 7. Thank you to #NetGalley, #BrillianceAudio and #MarionMcNabb for the advance copy!

I devoured this audiobook! No spoilers but the s*!? hit the fan in basically every aspect of Caroline’s life and she had a lot to figure out. She returned to the small town where she grew up for the first time in many years. I was rooting for her big time even though some of the mess was from her own bad decisions. Senior pup Mary Magdalene was such a precious canine character and I enjoyed her sometimes cantankerous owner’s devotion to her. Great storyline, great character development and the narrator was fantastic.

Caroline is a self help guru with a celebrity clientele. She is married to a gorgeous guy who has now publicly cheated on her. One night Caroline leaves thinking about what she knows and the what ifs about life and is she really qualified to teach people how to live their lives. Caroline’s mentor Deborah decided to sue her for basically stealing her life work and publishing it. Deborah confronts Caroline. Deborah is pretty much a tell you as it is character. You will love this character. After the confrontation by Devorah, Caroline retreats to her hometown Cape Cod and tries to come up with a way to salvage her career. Devorah and Caroline decide to come to terms with many of their own issues and eventually the two rekindle their friendship and form new ones and become allies. After all of this will Caroline be able to recover and will she be able to find love again. The book has it all heartbreak, love, forgiveness, second chance romance, grief, scandals , friendship, humor and lastly finding one’s self worth again. I enjoyed it very much. I also loved the descriptions of Cape Cod.