I’m Absolutely Fine!: A Manual for Imperfect Women, from the creators of The Midult by Annabel Rivkin and
Emilie McMeekan is a look at real life and being in it together.

The book has an interesting title and a nice cover. I had some problems with it though as I am a user of assistive technology. I found, that as a protected PDF and not a Kindle ebook, it was not compatible with VoiceOver on my iPad and I thought it would be. I had a bit of a time finding an app to open it and finally found Digital Editions but this app does not work with VoiceOver either.

I finally got the book read out to me and after all that did not enjoy it much. Hard to get into, there was a lot of info dumping going on and the language used was going for an informal style yet I felt distanced from it at times and like the pace dragged and waffled.

The section structure makes it the kind of book to be dipped in and out of and I felt that, despite having been written by 40 year olds it was dull and childish in some parts.

I expected to learn something or come away with some useful life advice but I was disappointed. I did not know what the authors were trying to do or show. Very few books fail to grip me and unfortunately this was one of those.

Thanks to and publisher for my ARC in exchange for an honest and voluntary review.

2 stars.