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by Matthew Norman
A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try a radical experiment—and get in way over their heads—in this hilarious, heartfelt novel from the author of We’re All Damaged. The Core Four have been friends since college: four men, four women, four couples. They got married around the same time, had kids around the same time, and now, fifteen years later, t
A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try a radical experiment—and get in way over their heads—in this hilarious, heartfelt novel from the author of We’re All Damaged. The Core Four have been friends since college: four men, four women, four couples. They got married around the same time, had kids around the same time, and now, fifteen years later, they’ve started getting divorced around the same time, too. With three of the Core Four unions crumbling to dust around them, Jessica and Mitch Butler take a long, hard look at their own marriage. Can it be saved? Or is divorce, like some fortysomething zombie virus, simply inescapable? To maximize their chance at immunity, Jessica and Mitch try something radical. Their friends’ divorces mostly had to do with sex—having it, not having it, wanting to have it with other people—so they decide to relax a few things. Terms are discussed, conditions are made, and together the Butlers embark on the great experiment of taking their otherwise happy, functional marriage and breaking some very serious rules. Jessica and Mitch are convinced they’ve hit upon the next evolution of marriage. But as lines are crossed and hot bartenders pursued, they each start to wonder if they’ve made a huge mistake. What follows is sexy, fun, painful, messy, and completely surprising to them both. Because sometimes doing something bad is the only way to get to the heart of what’s really good.
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March 17th 2020
by Ballantine
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(ISBN13: 9781984821065 )
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Many thanks to Ballantine Books for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review
The romance genre has its problems which I discussed in my latest booktube video that you can
click here
to watch) but there are occasionally books like these that break down the problematic tropes. Skip to
10:37
to here my thoughts on this specific book and what it does to push back against problems with the romance genre. -------------- And now, an interview with the author! What inspired you to star
Many thanks to Ballantine Books for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review
The romance genre has its problems which I discussed in my latest booktube video that you can
click here
to watch) but there are occasionally books like these that break down the problematic tropes. Skip to
10:37
to here my thoughts on this specific book and what it does to push back against problems with the romance genre. -------------- And now, an interview with the author! What inspired you to start writing? I’ve been writing since I was a kid—like third and fourth grade. I used to write little stories in pencil, complete with my own terrible illustrations, and read them aloud to my parents. Nothing in particular inspired me to do it other than the fact that it’s what I wanted to do. Writing has always been wired into my personality. Still is. Who inspires you to continue writing? At this point, writing is simply what I do, and it’s my job. So, I don’t need much inspiration. However... [READ MORE] ------------
”Relax,” she said. “You’re just a married man going online under a fake name to find sex. What could possibly go wrong?”
What do you think the answer is? 1. A lot 2. A ton 3. So much 4. All of the above If you guess, 4, all of the above, you are right!!
So, what’s this book about?
Last Couple Standing follows Mitch and Jessica. They are apart of the Core Four, a group of four men and four women that met in college. They all graduated at the same time. Got married at the same time. Had kids at the same time. And now, got divorced at the same time. Mitch and Jessica are now the only remaining couple who hasn’t gotten a divorce. And they intend to keep it that way. They just don’t know how. After much discussion, they come up with an experiment. They will have sex with other people. There are a few rules. 1. No repeats - You can’t have sex with the same person twice. 2. No one you know, etc. As the experiment continues, Mitch and Jessica begin to encounter obstacles and soon begin to learn what it means to truly love someone. I haven’t read that many middle-age (as in age 35+ not the middle ages with diseases and stuff) romances but I can still confidently say that this one is the best. It covers so many important topics such as How can humans deal with their innate desire for sex? Where is the limit for who you interact with and how? And many more important questions. The marketing paper that came with my ARC said that this is a great book club book and I totally agree. This book comes up with so many interesting questions that can be discussed and dissected for hours. My only complaint is that it wasn’t as sexy as the synopsis made it out to be but other than that, I loved it. Final note. This book takes place in Baltimore, MD area which was super cool. The characters literally went to places that actually exist and that I’ve been to. So, that was cool. Bottom Line: 4.5 Stars Age Rating: [ R ] Content Screening (Mild Spoilers) - Educational Value (0/0) ~ Positive Messages (4/5) - [Love conquers all, Marriage/Love isn’t just about sex] ~ Violence (1/5) - [Character kicked in the privates] ~ Sex (3/5) - [Brief, fade-to-black sex scenes] ~ Langauge (3/5) - [F**k, sh*t, d*mn, *ssh*le] ~ Drinking/Drugs (3/5) - [Alcohol consumption] Trigger and Content Warnings - Divorce, Losing loved ones Cover (3/5) ~ Characters (4/5) ~ Plot (4.5/5) Publication Date: March 17th, 2020 Publisher: Ballantine Books Genre: Romance/Contemporary --------------- The moral of the story is... LOVE IS F**KING MESSY also, this book is good and my evidence is that i read it in the span on two hours --------------- omg, this book sounds like everything i've ever wanted in a middle-aged romance. i can't wait | Goodreads | Blog | Pinterest | LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram
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Anyone who has weathered the breakup of close friends knows the trauma it inflicts. So, I loved the premise of this book. Four couples, known as The Core Four, have been friends since college. In the space of one year, three of the four couples get divorced. And with all that carnage, the fourth couple find themselves questioning their own marriage. I immediately appreciated Norman’s writing style. It’s basic but it just rings true. “They were solid. They were dependable. Stable. Safe. They were
Anyone who has weathered the breakup of close friends knows the trauma it inflicts. So, I loved the premise of this book. Four couples, known as The Core Four, have been friends since college. In the space of one year, three of the four couples get divorced. And with all that carnage, the fourth couple find themselves questioning their own marriage. I immediately appreciated Norman’s writing style. It’s basic but it just rings true. “They were solid. They were dependable. Stable. Safe. They were the Subaru Outback of married people.” There are numerous of these comparisons that I found myself highlighting, one after another. This book has a sly, dry humor to it. Not the laugh out loud kind, but the nodding, yes, I get it kind. Well, except for the ending. The ending is laugh out loud, tears rolling down your face funny. And you can tell Norman definitely comes from Baltimore, or Smalltimore, as he knows it’s called. Hell, I could even tell which private school he used as the basis for where Mitch teached. I loved the characters, all of them. I loved their foibles. I really wanted Jessica and Mitch to find a way to keep their marriage together even as I knew their “evolution” plan made no sense. I even wanted Scarlet to get her act together. And poor Luke. What a sweetie. Mitch has a poster with Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules of writing. Number two - “ give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.” Norman gives you an easy four if not 12. So, five big stars for this lovely, fun, relatable book. My thanks to netgalley and Random House for an advance copy of this book.
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Can you save your marriage by tearing it apart? Matthew Norman's new novel,
Last Couple Standing
, attempts to answer that question. They were the Core Four—four couples that met and paired up in college and remained inseparable friends. But 15 years later, one by one, the couples are breaking up, leaving Mitch and Jessica the only couple still together. While the two don’t feel unhappy with each other or their relationship, although raising two kids and working can be exhausting, they worry th
Can you save your marriage by tearing it apart? Matthew Norman's new novel,
Last Couple Standing
, attempts to answer that question. They were the Core Four—four couples that met and paired up in college and remained inseparable friends. But 15 years later, one by one, the couples are breaking up, leaving Mitch and Jessica the only couple still together. While the two don’t feel unhappy with each other or their relationship, although raising two kids and working can be exhausting, they worry that they, too, will fall prey to whatever brought their friends’ marriages to a halt. There has to be a way to inoculate their marriage and save their relationship. The more they think about it, they realize the biggest problem for their friends was the desire to have sex with other people. So what if they head this off at the pass and allow experimentation—won’t this quench the desire and then let everything get back to normal? They go so far as to set ground rules and approach everything methodically. No one they know, no repeat performances, etc. But they don’t count on handsome bartenders, recently divorced neighbors, coincidences, misunderstandings, and how the flush of desire actually feels with someone other than your spouse. Will this experiment save their marriage or actually destroy it? This is a fun, moving, and thought-provoking book about relationships. The characters were real, flawed people who feel familiar, and while you’ve seen this story before, Norman’s wry humor and his ability to create emotional upheaval without real melodrama sets it apart. This has movie or television adaptation written all over it! Check out my list of the best books I read in 2019 at https://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-best-books-i-read-in-2019.html . Check out my list of the best books of the decade at https://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2020/01/my-favorite-books-of-decade.html . See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com . Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/the.bookishworld.of.yrralh/.
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Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ 4.5 Stars After watching the marriages of all of the other couples belonging to their friend group “The Core Four” disintegrate, Mtch and Jessica come to the conclusion that perhaps desperate times truly do call for desperate measures and decide the solution to a happy marriage might come in the form of a . . . .
What could possibly go wrong????
So I owe both NetGalley and Matthew Norman a giant apology since I’m the one who requ
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ 4.5 Stars After watching the marriages of all of the other couples belonging to their friend group “The Core Four” disintegrate, Mtch and Jessica come to the conclusion that perhaps desperate times truly do call for desperate measures and decide the solution to a happy marriage might come in the form of a . . . .
What could possibly go wrong????
So I owe both NetGalley and Matthew Norman a giant apology since I’m the one who requested an early copy of this, held on to it for an age and then actively avoided it because when I finally got around to reading the blurb (you know your girl is all about a cover, and this was a good one), I assumed it would not be my cup of tea. I have no idea why I decided to take the plunge yesterday, but holy crap am I glad I did. I read this author once before ( Domestic Violets ) when the library didn’t have the book of his I actually wanted ( We’re All Damaged ) and was a bit underwhelmed. This time? Oh yes indeedy are the comparisons to Jonathan Tropper spot on and I effing LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED this. After wrongreadng a book on Saturday (due to a plethora of reasons, I’m sure, but bad dialogue was definitely one of them), this little diddy was a breath of fresh air come Sunday and I sat on the deck for the afternoon and sucked it right up. I loooooooooooove dialogue driven stories – especially witty dialogue that just flows without attempting to try too hard – and this one was near perfection. I also love realistic marriages and children and ensemble casts so this had soooooo many things going for it. And yes, the subject matter of cheating is absolutely one I generally avoid, but this book covered this hot-button issue with feeling and humor that made my end-of-book reaction simply . . . . .
As it reminded any happily-enough married person reading it that . . . .
On your side of the fence, the grass is green as fuck. On this side, there is no grass. There’s just booze and sadness and fucking designer jeans.
ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you, NetGalley!
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I probably shouldn't have read Matthew Norman's upcoming love/comedy novel
Last Couple Standing
a month before my wedding, but it was such a funny, interestingly different romance novel. I was not expecting to really enjoy this book as much as I did. The story centers around Jessica and Mitch Butler and their marriage. Out of all their friends, Jessica and Mitch are the only ones who haven't gotten a divorce—but their marriage is getting a bit stale. The couple is nervous that they'll be the
I probably shouldn't have read Matthew Norman's upcoming love/comedy novel
Last Couple Standing
a month before my wedding, but it was such a funny, interestingly different romance novel. I was not expecting to really enjoy this book as much as I did. The story centers around Jessica and Mitch Butler and their marriage. Out of all their friends, Jessica and Mitch are the only ones who haven't gotten a divorce—but their marriage is getting a bit stale. The couple is nervous that they'll be the next couple to call it quits, because their lives have become so mundane. The couple decides that they'll open up their marriage—a relaxed marriage , as they call it. What could go wrong?
Last Couple Standing
is a hilarious, yet all too real depiction of monogamy, divorce, and interpersonal relationships. Is monogamy overrated? The jury is out on this topic, but I truly enjoyed seeing Jessica and Mitch open their relationship up, and witness their tribulations as they ventured on.
Last Couple Standing
is more of a comedy than a sexy romantic novel and it's very lighthearted. This book is non-stop belly laughs and overall a fun ride.
Last Couple Standing
is definitely a good book to read when you are getting bored or overrun by darker, twisted reads. This light read will keep you thoroughly entertained until the last page.
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Still not sure if this is a three-star or four-star book. The premise threw me off and was hard to get beyond. I'll be back with a full review. Full review: Three and a half stars, rounded down. The writing in this book is fantastic, and for that reason alone it deserves three stars. It's the story that threw me for a loop because honestly, it's a subject that I really don't care for. I know there are a lot of people who have "relaxed" marriages or relaxed rules about marriage but that's just not m
Still not sure if this is a three-star or four-star book. The premise threw me off and was hard to get beyond. I'll be back with a full review. Full review: Three and a half stars, rounded down. The writing in this book is fantastic, and for that reason alone it deserves three stars. It's the story that threw me for a loop because honestly, it's a subject that I really don't care for. I know there are a lot of people who have "relaxed" marriages or relaxed rules about marriage but that's just not my deal and I have a hard time sympathizing with couples who have problems following that decision. The characters were well developed and likable even
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