#20 NETGALLEY READ: THE MULLIGAN CURSE

📖BOOK TITLE: THE MULLIGAN CURSE 

📖AUTHOR: DIANE BARNES 

📖PUB DATE: FEBRUARY 5TH 2025

📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: 

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Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for granting my request to read this e-ARC and provide my honest opinions.

Who wouldn't want to go back in time and change one of the life-changing decisions? Who wouldn't want to see how life should've turned out if you took an alternate path?

Mary Mulligam has been having some pains in her mouth due to the recent emergence of her wisdom tooth; this scenario should have been perfectly normal had it been Mary Mulligan wasn't in her fifties. So now you see what drew me into the story—who doesn't love a good time travel novel?

The plot was set right; the emergence of Mary's wisdom tooth is due to her having some serious life regrets; she thinks she has not done enough with her life. Now she is old and lonely; her husband doesn't have enough time for her, and her only daughter is moving to a different continent. Her crazy cousin Darbi warns more, like said it in passing, not to have her wisdom tooth removed, but Mary doesn't believe in that nonsense her cousin is spewing, so she gets her tooth removed, and the rest they say is history.

Honestly, I wanted to love it, but there were a lot of holes in the plot, in my opinion, that kept tugging at my mind. I felt disconnected to the story as I felt Mary tried so hard to make her husband look like the bad person; after some time I stopped rooting for her, and what is with the attitude of Darbi after Mary went back in time? The whole going back in time scenario made no sense to me at some point.

What I did love was the lessons this book had to give; it made me look at life differently. Sure, you will have some or a lot of regrets, a lot of things you should have done and shouldn't have, but that is life. Enjoy it, and you never know who is looking up to you just by being yourself. In marriage, communication is very important; talk about what you need and what you don't need; speak to your partner. And I also learned that falling in love with your partner again is very important, as it is easy to lose sight of what is important.

Thank you once again to Netgalley and the author for this e-ARC.

📖RATINGS: 3 STARS ⭐⭐⭐