A review by _amandareads
None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

3.0

This book follows Ramona, her young children and her teenage neighbor as they navigate evacuating a hurricane in Savannah, Georgia. This evacuation effort comes directly after Ramona walks in on her husband cheating. This was a very middle of the road book for me. I enjoyed the chaos of it all but I had trouble suspending my disbelief for the majority of the book. Ramona makes decisions that I have trouble believing anyone would make. Maybe I didn’t enjoy this as much because I don’t have children and I just don’t get it?? I’m not sure. I read this on audio and I did not enjoy the narration. The kiddy voices used for the children made me cringe. This book was nonstop stress from the very first page. So if you don’t enjoy hours of tight-chested anxiety, maybe don’t read it. I think this book was aiming to be relatable and realistic surrounding infidelity but I didn’t love how the subject was treated. The cute cover and title are what drew me to this book and the title definitely fell short. I feel like this would’ve been the exact same book without the Prince references. Or you could’ve subbed in any other celebrity and their death. I appreciate the “reallness” with which the author approaches marriage, motherhood, and individual personhood and how all those things interconnect but it all felt a little cobbled together. But I guess that’s life.