This book was sort of a palate cleanser for me, as it is not my typical read. It is more of a cozy mystery rather than the usual thriller books I tend to read. It did have a humorous storyline and funny, semi-unlikeable characters though, so it was entertaining.

Thank you NetGalley, for this ARC of 'All The Other Mothers Hate Me', by Sarah Harman, in exchange for an honest review - expected release date 03/11/2025.

Soooo Florence is a Hot Mess Express. She makes very questionable choices, is selfish and she needs to grow up. But...I liked her. And, considering all the other mothers hate her, I loved that she finally made a friend in Jenny. Jenny was my favorite character, by far. She brought Flo into reality

I don't think the author went deep enough into Mr Foster's character for him to be brought up, randomly, as a bad guy bomber at the very end. That huge twist felt thrown in last minute to tie out the fact that Flo felt ick towards him. The serial killer storyline seemed unnecessary since it had nothing to do with the main kidnapping storyline and didn't tie in in any way. She probably should've named Mr Foster as the killer, although with Dylan befriending him, that probably would've been too dark...

This wasn't my favorite book but also wasn't terrible so I'm giving it a 3. I didn't figure out 'whodunit' (the kidnapping) so kudos to the author for that, I was just as surprised as Flo!

Thanks Netgalley for the free ARC! I found the storyline humorous, but more a cozy mystery than a thriller which is more my genre, however, I loved the idea of a washed up girl band member trying to make a comeback. I liked the protagonist’s sarcasm and her son’s vegan eccentricities. I know a lot of readers couldn’t stand the protagonist, but I found her friend Jenny to be the annoying one. I would recommend this book for a funny mystery.

2.5 stars that I’ll round up to 3. The tone of the book was fabulous. Yea the main character was insufferable at times but she was also funny and relatable. The first 75 pages were great but unfortunately the middle of the book was weighed down by silly hijinks and ultimately inconsequential BS. I wish this book had been about 50 pages shorter. Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC!

DNF - this book just wasn’t my cup of tea!

Thank you to NetGalley & PENGUIN GROUP Putnam for giving me an early opportunity to read this book.

𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔 🝮 𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠

𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝙷𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝙼𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚑 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗

𝚂𝚠𝚒𝚙𝚎 👉 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠!

𝙹𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝙷𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝙼𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚑 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚘𝚠-𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗!

𝚆𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚙-𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚗, 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝟷𝟶-𝚢𝚛 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎. 𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎’𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚘𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗.

𝙸𝚝 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏-𝚍𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚝, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚙, 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚞𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍—𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎! 𝙰𝚕𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙵𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙-𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚘𝚡𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚞𝚒𝚗𝚎- 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚗.

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚛 𝚓𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍. 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚍𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚃𝙱𝚁 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝- 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚝 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚋!

3.5 stars

*review will be posted 1 week prior to book release date*

This was a fun book. I assume the main character was meant to be unlivable because she was, but I still enjoyed the book. I liked the different avenue of suspects the book went down, and I thought overall the book was good and the mystery was good. I don’t know if I liked the very very end though.

Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name, or risk losing Dylan forever.

The only problem? Florence has no useful skills, let alone investigative ones, and all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and Florence has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe.

Okay, I really enjoyed this book! Of course all the other mothers hate her. She's horrible! But also her awfulness is so entertaining! They mystery about what happened to Alfie was a good one. Between the mystery and the entertaining Florence, this book was a solid 4⭐ read for me!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced digital reader's copy (ARC) in exchange for an honest review!

This was such a fun palette cleanser with a chaotic yet relatable main protagonist who I was rooting for even when she did something idiotic! This centers around a single mom trying to clear the name of her son who is the prime suspect in his prestigious classmate’s disappearance. This was fun without being cheesy and I did not see the twist coming. I highly recommend for a fun quick read that’s not too serious with a hint of suspense.

Thank you netgalley and the publishers or this ARC of this book. The character development was what hooked me, and the story’s plot kept me engaged. The pacing and themes throughout the story were well developed and I definitely will be recommending this to my book club in 2025.

All the Other Mothers Hate Me will drive you up the wall with its main character, Florence, but is a brilliant mystery. Florence is equal parts identifiable and deplorable, a character you love to hate with a heart of gold. The former (current?) party girl who makes mistake after mistake, refusing to draw accountability to her actions and always at the mercy of a man to save or take care of her. This wouldn't be that unnerving as a reader, except for the fact that she has a beautiful little boy whom she regularly leaves to go party or out for the night. Add a missing classmate to this already chaotic mix and you get a recipe for hijinx and disaster along the way. I highly recommend this wild ride of a mystery, it will keep you shocked through the very last page!

We've all had less than nice thoughts about the children in and around our lives, but Florence takes them to the next level. She hates the moms at her son's school, and thinks most of their kids are unlikeable, to put it mildly. So when a kid that her son has history with goes missing, Florence has to figure out what happened, if only to quiet that sinister voice that says her kid may have had something to do with it. This novel is good fun, even if you might find yourself thinking 'wow, this woman needs to get her act together.' She is as together as she's going to get, thank you very much. Fast and furious, All the Other Mothers Hate Me is a domestic thriller that doesn't shy away from its main character's flaws.

Florence was kind of unbearable. Love a free spirit, but nobody wants an unreliable mess as a friend, mom or sister lol. It also made it kind of hard to follow for a minute because I wasn’t sure where we were going with any of it. It may have been a me problem because I put it down and picked it back up and I don’t usually do that; but I wanted to give it a fair chance. The balance between thrills and laughs was a bit off but it was still a fun read. To elaborate, like when we get to Marta and it gets a lot heavier the vibe just shifts like the floor drops out but the book wasn’t quite set up for that. Yes, there is a boy missing, but 2 moms are driving around looking for him in a rented car and fake baby and he’s presumed to be hanging out with someone because his rich daddy can’t keep it in his trousers. The other thing to point out is I knew where Alfie was right when it was mentioned because of how it was written. If it was changed just a smidge, like he switched roles for something more lax? The reader may fly right by it without thinking another thought and their suspicions would be more on someone else and it would add more surprise to the “reveal.” It’s so easy to critique a book as the reader though, it’s harder to write down positives other then that it was enjoyable without the risk of sounding redundant. There was some vocabulary that I learned, some I had never even heard before. Also, Will was also absolutely terrible. And I bet it’s actually hard to write characters that are so awful and stay that way throughout the book. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and G.P Putnam’s Sons for the DRC in exchange for my honest review.

I went into this knowing there would be an unlikeable main character, but wow! she is unlikeable! The beginning of the book story was also surprisingly slow since I was expecting an exciting mystery at least. The last third of the book picked up, and I rushed to finish. But ultimately, this one disappointed me.

The title is fantastic, and the premise is very promising but unfortunately the story doesn't live up to it's hype. I never felt that I cared about any of the characters, even protaganist.

This book was so much fun. I loved the short chapters and the storytelling style. Florence is a great protagonist, flawed and real and her growth over the book was believable.

3.5 It was a good thriller- the FMC grew on me. She was so unlikable at first but by the end, I could see myself being friends with her, while also watching my back. Haha! I’d recommend this book to someone!

Florence is a pop star turned turn mom who lives for her ten-year-old son, Archie. Archie attends a posh private school where morning drop-off is an expensive show-and-tell of what the other moms are wearing and what they can brag about. Florence shares her honest feelings with the reader throughout the book and the thoughts are sometimes hilarious and other times heartbreaking. A single mom who feels her singing career ended badly and left her with little hope for the future, she finds a passion for solving mysteries when a child is lost on a field trip and the child is her son's field trip partner. With a newfound motivation to find the missing child and clear her son's name, Florence takes the reader on a wild ride to solve a mystery and reclaim her son's good name among gossiping mothers.

I thought this was a fun read, albeit with a rather frustrating protagonist. The story centers on Florence, a former pop star turned immature mom who gets embroiled in a situation regarding a missing child at her son’s school. Florence, along with a new friend, gets overly involved investigating the situation in an ill attempt to take the spotlight off her own son.

I enjoyed Florence, even though she was frustrating. I thought the dynamic between her and her friend Jenny totally worked; their adventures made me laugh sometimes and made me feel for Florence other times. The mystery around the missing child was sound, however, some of the things that happened were extremely unrealistic. I was ok with suspending my disbelief, though, as this overall felt like a light read and Florence clearly grew as a character as the book continued.

Overall, this was about as light of a read as it could be with the content that it covered, and the mystery was twisty. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is rounded up from 3.5 stars. In this story we meet a mother who struggles with her current life but does her best to take care of her son Dylan. This is the point in time when one student from Dylan’s school goes missing on a field trip and his mom has reason to believe it’s possible her son might be responsible but she will do anything to have that blame placed elsewhere.

I liked the story overall but the pacing felt off to me - at some points the story felt slow and at other times, the story flew and was very twisty. I did like some of the twists and their clues that were left throughout the story.

Overall I would recommend this novel to people who enjoy mysteries with a slight bent toward family stories.