This book was requested by a previous Lesbrary reviewer who did not finish or review it. In order to keep my Netgalley feedback up to date, I am submitting this review marking it as a DNF, though it was another reviewer who requested this.

I had a hard time reading this book due to the depressing subject storyline and wad not able to finish.

I wanted to love this book, but I have to accept that after 5 years, im not going to Finish it . It was just too slow and not really what I was expecting.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for letting me review this book!

First off this book is about three very depressing women. I personally found it very hard to follow with the writing. I think if you like the different outlooks on a depressed view then you would enjoy this book. I however did not which is perfectly fine, but it made it very hard to finish reading.

This book tells the story of 3 very depressed and depressing women.

The writing style is slow and fragmentary and really made it difficult to connect with the characters. I wanted something to happen in their lives, some kind of change to keep me going but nothing happened or changed and I couldn't keep going.

I received a copy of this book for free from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

I found this book confusing and disjointed and just couldn't finish it. Definitely not my cup of tea sorry

Interesting read . I actually enjoyed reading this story. Thank you netgallery for providing me with an advance copy of this book

great read awesome writing i really enjoyed this author and this book i would reccomend to other for sure

This was an interesting read. It cycled through multiple viewpoints and did a great job of juggling those differing views without losing the reader. It kept me engaged and turning the pages

This book did a great job of dancing between multiple characters and what they go through. It was a great read, and caught my interest right away.

It was a great and intreasting read . great character summary and good plot. Loved it.

Interesting book. I liked the way the story changes and is told from a new viewpoint with each chapter but at times i found i had to stop reading and think about it for a second to remember what character was whom and what their story was. (That's just me.. others may not have this issue.) I would have to remember the pattern the story went in. I also thought that each Dear Hope question before the beginning of the chapter would be a hint to what was going to happen in that chapter; sometimes i would be right - but sometimes i wouldn't be. I'm glad there as variety to it. This was a good read - I found some things that happened in the story to be a tad predictable but there was alot of elements that were surprising. Some parts of the story felt rushed and I wished for more backstory and/or more character development but it was because i fell in love with the characters and wanted to know more about them. I hope there's another book and that this is going to be a series, I am very interested in seeing how it plays out if there's another book! And I NEED to know about that necklace and how it came to be where it was!!!

It's hard to review and rate a book that I almost abandoned in the first chapter, but persevered and went to mostly enjoy. I would have rated it higher, but the only LGBT character in the book dies and serves no purpose except to further the story of one of the protagonists. Just thinking about it makes me want to take away another star...

The story is about three women, Rory, Mims and Sarah, each of them going through major crises in their lives and how they navigate through them and come out on top. I thought there would be a closer connection between the three of them, but there wasn't. I also wasn't sure what the Hope Jackson connection added to the story (or even if it was needed) -- in retrospect, I think this was an underdeveloped motif in the book.

Rory's story was the one I found most difficult to understand -- she starts off as flaky and irresponsible, in thousands of pounds of credit card debt, but somehow manages to pull off an immensely popular website. How that happens or how she pays off her debt is all left unexplained.

There were a few errors -- for example, Mims is shown as having an office in her home but then, suddenly, she is driving back from a session.

This book contained the mixed narratives of three women and their current life situation and heartache. I really enjoyed these women's stories and I enjoyed the way they all tied neatly together in the end.

I was not able to complete this novel, as I tried to read it 4 different times and it was not for me. I could not relate and I wasn't drawn in. Very sad because I liked the synopsis.

Unfortunately I can't read this title. The formatting in the Kindle version with the soft returns means that I lose my train of thought every 3 seconds, which isn't conducive to a thoughtful book review. And I've tried the Adobe version and on my phone it is tiny, and apparently has no possible font size adjustment. I can't read this to review it.

This is my first ever book by by this author. I found her writing style a little confusing, the way she started her chapters with Dear Hope it read more like a problem page than a novel. But then maybe that was what she wanted.

The book concentrates on three main characters. I feel maybe the author could have written three separate books and got rid off the fragmentation. The three characters are Sarah who is suffering from a broken marriage and has two sons. Mims is suffering from grief and is married to Steve. Rory is a jew who is trying hard to stop her destructive ways.

Now that you see the characters and their issues maybe you will now understand what I meant by fragmented. Hope Jackson who you are introduced too at the beginning is dead and they are somehow all connected. Hope being some kind of guru who they all depend on. I am also not sure if this book should be in lesbian fiction because you only get a brief encounter with Sarah's eldest son and then nothing. Also, Mims is portrayed as by sexual but nothing is developed nor invested in.

I found the book very hard work. I actually contemplated not finishing it but my internal stubbornness to finish what I start kicked in so I persevered. What I found at the end was not a bad story about three different women but I am still not convinced the stories were complete. Grey tended to start a thread, drop it, return to it much later then drop it again.

I'm not sure if I would recommend this book. If I did I would like to see certain editorial improvements. Even those to make it an easier read and maybe more of an introduction of what you are getting into. Enjoy!


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This is a hard book to review. I mean, what do you rate a book that started out annoying you to no end, then succeeded in making you an unlikely fan, but finally slapped you in the face with a betrayal? Three stars and one round of cursing at your reading app, I guess.

So here’s the details: three women’s lives are falling apart. How are they connected, you ask? Don’t. You won’t find out until the end, anyway. At which point it’s a clever, sweet way of ending the book, but you can’t start trying to figure it out from the beginning. They do add to each other, being intertwined, but they don’t know each other.

Anyway. Three women’s lives are falling apart, and it’s sort of terrible. I actually considered just marking it DNF and moving on. but I gave it another shot for one reason only, the same reason I requested it from NetGalley in the first place:

MRS is marked as an LGBTQ book. It shouldn’t be.

This is where we discuss the real reason this book I ended up loving lost two stars. Not only does Mims’s journey to figuring out that she likes women get cut off without any kind of resolution (barely even being addressed!), but the only major gay character dies, and the other minor character isn’t enough to warrant being put in the LGBTQ genre. The only person who could justify it was Mims, and we never get so much as the word “bisexual” uttered on page.

Yeah, I’m bitter. But let’s move on.

Next, these three women have to start putting the pieces of their lives back together, and finally things look up. There’s new friendships being built, new and old hobbies and talents being (re)discovered, family feels and romance for some of them. It’s funny and cute and genuinely fun to read, even with all the ups and downs.

Rory was undeniably my favorite. She’s a writer (even if she’s writing smut while I’m skimming right over it), and she’s snarky and a little self-destructive and Jewish! That ended up being one of my favorite things about the book. Rory’s not very religious, but she still cares a lot about being Jewish, and the book doesn’t brush over how even a very casual relationship to Judaism shapes your life. Rory goes to events at her synagogue, has a seder with her family, bonds with her love interest about her Jewish grandmother and Jewish food. It was relatable and uplifting the way the all the main characters’ joy at having new friendships were relatable and uplifting.

So don’t read MRS for gay representation. Maybe don’t read it at all, because I will always be bitter about certain things. But if you need something about pulling your life back together even when it’s hard, about things turning out okay and perhaps even better than before… give it a shot.

There was something about the cover of this book that snagged my attention right away. It was that moment when I realized, those parts don’t go together. Then I read the blurb for MRS by Noa Grey, and I thought, hmmm, interesting… well, maybe... I thought the play on the main characters’ names was clever. But I still wasn’t sure if it was going to be an interesting read. I was curious enough to make it to the second page, and then it clicked. What do you do when your most trusted counselor, mentor, in-your-head friend dies and leaves you to make out in the world on your own? The women of the world are set adrift when this major Oprah meets Dear Abby advice empress dies.

Mims, Rory and Sarah are all battling to become the best MRSs they can be in their own ways. Two already married and one on the husband hunt, these women share one thing in common. They aren’t really trying to be MRSs at all–they are trying to remember how to be themselves. And that’s where Hope, the beloved self-help guru, comes in. Although we are introduced to this character through others’ memories and impressions of her–or rather her advice–Hope is the personification of that thing Mims, Rory and Sarah are all really looking for–hope. In a way each one has lost hope in herself. For Mims it’s hope to make it past her deceased daughter’s death; for Rory it’s hope in her own creative abilities; and for Sarah it’s hope in her own sense of direction. These women have lost their way, and the symptoms of their true ailment manifests in their interactions with men. MRS by Noa Grey isn’t your typical romance.

I love this book. I love how it complicates–or recognizes the complexities of–the concept of being a MRS. There is a beautiful tension between how one experiences oneself as an individual versus as a partner with someone else versus as a member of a community. Noa Grey writes wonderfully complex, developing characters, who are allowed room to mess up and to grow and to learn. I am appreciative of her efforts toward diversity; it makes her landscape richer and her narrative deeper. There is little static or formulaic about this book. And just a heads up, if you’re looking for a totally neat ending with a bow on top, Grey does not provide. But she does leave you with satisfaction that Hope is still in the mix even after death. This is a definite must-read page turner.

I really tried with this one. And there were funny parts that made me chuckle and I liked the Dear Hope letters at the beginning but eventually the book just seemed to keep dragging on for me and i cared less and less about knowing how this all turned out.

So i had to DNF this one. I hope these characters actually showed some growth cuz man are they just a bunch of whiny rich white ladies at this point. I'm just not interested in them enough to find out if they do show some kind of character development