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A review by twhissemore
None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa
3.0
Over the course of 48 hours, Ramona’s life is upended when she catches her husband cheating just as a hurricane is bearing down on Savannah. Her life is already complicated enough – she’s a working mom – but now she has to evacuate her home with her kids (and her kind of weird teenage neighbor) while trying to keep her job and figure out how her marriage went so wrong.
The prose of this book is basically Ramona’s stream of consciousness. Her thoughts are a jumble and not always appropriate, but they’re often funny. There are flashbacks to the early days of her marriage and those flashbacks reveal that Ramona wasn’t necessarily a happy wife. It’s a clever, fast-paced story.
I had a like/dislike relationship with Ramona. I rooted for her at the same time I wanted to shake her and say, “Wrong decision, dummy!” The way she handled the evacuation was…not great. But I also wasn’t sure I would make different decisions.
I also wasn’t quite sure what the title had to do with the story. The title is so amazing, so I was expecting more about Prince and more of a connection between the events of the story and Prince’s death. The whole connection felt a little weak.
That said, I think I would still recommend this book, particularly to my friends who are moms.
The prose of this book is basically Ramona’s stream of consciousness. Her thoughts are a jumble and not always appropriate, but they’re often funny. There are flashbacks to the early days of her marriage and those flashbacks reveal that Ramona wasn’t necessarily a happy wife. It’s a clever, fast-paced story.
I had a like/dislike relationship with Ramona. I rooted for her at the same time I wanted to shake her and say, “Wrong decision, dummy!” The way she handled the evacuation was…not great. But I also wasn’t sure I would make different decisions.
I also wasn’t quite sure what the title had to do with the story. The title is so amazing, so I was expecting more about Prince and more of a connection between the events of the story and Prince’s death. The whole connection felt a little weak.
That said, I think I would still recommend this book, particularly to my friends who are moms.