Thank you to Edelweiss, The Dial Press, & Random House for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.

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First things first - I loved this book 😍 😍 😍

Second things second - For me, Sophie Kinsella is hit or miss and there doesn't seem to be any in between. Sometimes she knocks it out of the park, and sometimes I'm kind of left wondering if the book I read is the same author that wrote I've Got Your Number or My Not So Perfect Life (wins!) because what in the world did I even just read?? (See: The Wedding Night)

The Party Crasher was total magic and I am so glad that I refuse to give up on Kinsella because if I had, I wouldn't have had the experience of reading this book in less than 24 hours while grinning like a loon, laughing out loud repeatedly, and even tearing up once or twice. This. Was. Magic.

I loved the antics of the main character, Effie, and as ridiculous as they seemed, it also felt TOTALLY plausible. I 100% believed this woman would go crawling around the front lawn hiding in rose bushes to sneak into her childhood home so she could retrieve a beloved childhood trinket before the sale of the house following the divorce of her parents and the arrival of a new (not so nice) woman in her dad's life.I believed in the relationships (even as some were ridiculous) between the characters. I believed in the romance. I BELIEVED, y'all!

I also loved the nuanced conflicts in the book - they was so many shades of gray involved in all of them, and it made for a very realistic (albeit at times silly) portrayal of life. Nobody was perfect, nobody was all bad or all good, and everyone made mistakes. It didn't feel dysfunctional as much as it just felt, well, real.

Couldn't recommend this one highly enough, y'all. Honestly considering re-reading it at the end of the year just for the heck of it!