Really Good, Actually - Rambling Readers

Hardcover, 384 pages

English language

Published Jan. 17, 2023 by William Morrow.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-323541-0

(1 review)

Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée™.

Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way.

7 editions

Paul Oldham reviewed Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

Really not

1 star

Apparently this is a Sunday Times Bestseller and our library has a least two e-copies in stock but I got about a third of the way through before giving up.

For me it fails in two ways. Firstly it's just not that well written and considering this is a first person narrative it doesn't feel that way.

Second, and this is just me, but I really didn't like our hero that much, and if you're going to live with her ramblings through an entire book you really need to I think.

Anyway, moving on.