Jane has mastered the perfect smile and balanced her busy social life to be the perfect wife and mother to her friends. Deep down she can't stand her lying, cheating husband but must maintain the image of a happy family to his colleagues at the hospital and wealthy donors. When her troublesome daughter manages to get in trouble yet again at school, Jane can no longer hold in how she truly feels. What starts out as a hysterical breakdown involving the police ends up with Jane running into someone from her past. With a new friendship blossoming will Jane realize that she can never truly be happy if she's living a lie?

It takes a while for Jane to realize that she needs to start living her life for herself and not for others, but she's afraid to take the next step for independence. Still wanting to shelter and protect her daughter, she keeps up the pretense of being happily married. I thought Jane's husband was a real piece of work and very selfish, only looking out for himself. He somewhat redeemed himself in the end but he was still my least favorite character. I loved everything going on with Jane outside of her home life, which really brought her true self out more. Overall this was a good read and I look forward to reading more from this author.

Thank you Netgalley and Montlake for the opportunity to read this book.

39 year old Jane has it all on paper. She is married to a handsome doctor, she is a PTA chairperson, mother and daughter.
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In reality, her husband of 18 years tells her he’s gay and in love with a man, and the perfect life she has created comes crumbling down. Perfect Jane begins to snap.
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I loved the ending of this ones it was a lot more emotional than I was expecting.

The blurb kind of tells you everything you need to know about the main points of the story. What it doesn't say though is the lengths Jane will go through in order to protect her husbands secret and her family as she knows it. In the end, you can only bend the branch so far before it finally breaks. Dan was extremely unlikeable to me and I wanted to wring his neck on more than one occasion. I understood the need for Jane's actions to maintain continuity in her life, but I wanted to slap her a few times as well. In the end, the "class" is what kept me completely into the story and how everyone came together to keep Jane sane. An enjoyable read!

This is unlike any book I’ve read before. I don’t think it was necessarily for me. I think I just needed more action and maybe faster paced. I also think maybe I read this at the wrong time, as I am a mood reader.

This is a solid 3.5 for me.

Dan has a big secret he’s been keeping. Jane is forced to keep this secret, which ultimately forces her to Snap, in a humorous way. Avery is a total victim in this secret, but senses there is an issue, acting out as teenagers can. While the premise is good, I found most of the characters annoying and the writing left me wanting more. While there were a few laugh out loud moments, this book delved into some deeper topics before being wrapped up in a neat bow. An enjoyable beach read, or lighter diversion read. I would give this author another try.

Thanks to Ms. Crandall, Montlake Publishing and NetGalley for this ARC. Opinion is mine alone.

From the outside, Jane appears to have it all. The successful husband, president of the PTA, a beautiful daughter. Her husband's success allows her to take care of her mother and sister who both need her. From the outside, everything looks perfect. What people don't see is the massive lie that Jane is struggling to hide in order to protect this perfect life. This book had a strong balance of everything, tug at the heartstrings moments balanced to laugh out loud moments that had me rolling.

I was able to read See Jane Snap earlier this summer thanks to NetGalley and Montlake, but you can read it this week since it will be out on 9/7!

I think we’ve all known a Jane, I think we’ve all been a Jane at one point or another. On the outside, Jane had the perfect life. Underneath the facade, it’s all falling apart. Jane snaps and we learn there are so many reasons why, but of course, it’s always the one last thing that throws someone over the edge.

Favorite Quote:
“People get upset all the time; it doesn’t always mean their feelings change.”

I couldn’t get past the annoying characters and even worse dialogue. All the sentences were so short and clipped, especially in conversations. I DNF at 13%.

DNF at 20%. Jane is a whiny, unlikeable character and her “friends” are vile. Her 12-year-old daughter clearly needs loving, attentive parents to help guide her through the difficulty of being a pre-teen girl but unfortunately both her parents are selfishly involved in their own storylines and can’t be bothered. Ugh. I couldn’t take another page.

Thanks to NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

We've all had that moment, haven't we? Jane's coping with a lot thanks to her husband Dan, who really needs to grow up. She's sympathetic although I wonder how many wives would, in today's world, would agree to help him stay in the closet. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC.

This book clipped right along - it would make for a good plane book or good for a work trip read. Several details were problematic for me - and main characters weren’t likeable. However, it’s written with humor and and made me smile a few times and characters partially redeemed themselves. You know what it’s like? A Hallmark movie on a Saturday afternoon. Simple. Good lighting. Characters who are characters. Predictable and yet beyond belief. An escape. Not a great escape. But an escape. Thanks to Montlake for the advanced copy. I’m so grateful.

This didn’t work for me. The premise sounded great and I think the story had potential but their were also things that made me cringe.

In the beginning Jane steals Zoloft from a friend due to her panic attack and it should be known, Zoloft is a daily medicine not a medicine that provides an immediate fix. It is portrayed as something that causes her to become out of it along with the drinking she is doing but this just isn’t accurate at all.

I also can’t stomach when the author uses anyone having an affair with someone of the same sex as something to be hidden because they are not know to be LGBTQA.

Janes life is perfect looking from the outside but boy is it really a mess. The storyline could have been totally comical and relatable because after all who’s life is perfect but here were two major things I couldn’t overcome.

To all outward appearances, Jane has the perfect life. She is married to Dan, a prominent surgeon, they have a 12 year old daughter named Avery who attends private school, they have a beautiful home, and Jane is a stay-at-home mom who is able to not only chair the PTA but be in charge of many of the hospital fundraisers where her husband works. Of course, she also has a mom who has alhzheimer's and is in a nursing home that Jane has to pay for and a younger sister who never seems to be able to make ends meet and constantly has a hand out. Oh, and did we mention that Jane just found out that her husband is in love with a man, and has been living a double life for their entire 18-year marriage? Or that she is supposed to keep it a secret and continue on as if everything is normal until after the hospital fundraiser, so they can get some uber-conservative ultra-rich guy to fund their new cardio wing? Some days, Jane feels like she can't hold it together one more minute. Then one day, she snaps.....

This book was so funny. There were so many laugh out loud moments in the book. The antics (especially the grocery store parking lot) were over-the-top crazy and Jane's journey of self discovery will make you root for her. I highly recommend this entertaining tale!

Thanks to Lets talk books, Netgalley and Montlake for the early copy in exchange for an honest review.

Jane is married to a cardiac surgeon and lives the life of the doctor's wife-hanging around other doctor's wives, taking care of her daughter and helping to get donors for her husband's hospital.

Jane becomes fed up with the lifestyle and kind of... snaps. Then she is dealing with all of the repercussions,

Don't want any spoilers here so I'll leave it a little vague. This one was entertaining enough but definitely dragged in parts. Some components of the story didn't seem accurate or believable to me.

She’s got the weight of the world on her shoulders and Jane is about to snap! This was an authentic and relatable story. I absolutely loathed the character Dan and nothing he did could have redeemed himself for me, as he treated Jane horribly. I was rooting for Jane and excited for her to find her backbone. This was witty yet emotional. My thanks to the publisher for the advance reader in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Montlake and NetGalley for this gifted ARC of See Jane Snap by Bethany Crandell in exchange for an honest review.

It appears that Jane has the perfect life, career, and family. However, all is not as it seems when her husband Dan reveals he has been living a double life and is instead in love with a man. But Jane has to keep this a secret for the sake of Dan’s career as a surgeon. Keeping up appearances proves to bring Jane to the verge of snapping and to decide whether the secret is worth keeping.

Throughout the novel, there is great humour. I found myself laughing at a lot of the dialogue, especially within the meetings Jane has to attend from her public snap. This allowed for an enjoyable read, especially through reading the life of the characters at the meeting. The characters were likeable and I loved reading the community Crandell created. I understood the need for these meetings and the introductions to these characters, but I would have enjoyed more insight into the diary Jane has to write to pass the course. I think this would have added a more detailed approach into how Jane really felt and unpick more details about her life. There was a lot of story that could have been told and explored in further detail to fully develop and engage with Jane.

The novel felt fast paced which seemed to overlook some of the more important elements, especially imperative responses from Jane that the reader would want to read. The challenges and revelations Jane faces are limited in detail in accordance to her reaction and emotional response. I would have liked more background to Jane as I felt disconnected to the character and why she is desperate for her lifestyle with Dan. But I was on Jane’s side and Crandell’s writing style successfully allowed for emotions to be felt on both sides of the situation, anger to Dan and sympathy for Jane.

This was an easy, almost silly read with predictable elements. Crandell’s idea was brilliant and I think has strong potential to have been executed in a more thought provoking way. The character has a lot of relatable qualities, which could have been presented in a more emotional way to engross and captivate the reader. However, it is clear the author has took a light approach to the story, so the narrative choices could have been intentional. Undoubtedly the humour was a key aspect in this novel, so maybe a more serious tone would have lost this, but I just found myself looking for more.

Overall, this is an enjoyable, easy read, with humour and hints at a new love interest for Jane. The characters are likeable and the reader will be rooting for Jane. Crandell’s idea is very good but there is a lot of potential to make this into something else if there was more detail. However, this might not have been the author’s intention and lose the light hearted humour Crandell so brilliantly writes.

This review will be published on my blog, www.fortheliterature.wordpress.com on 31/08/21

"𝐈 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤, 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮."
𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞.
𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟-𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? 𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.

Have you ever read the perfect book at the perfect time in your life and it sort of heals you? This was the case with SEE JANE SNAP. By all outward appearances, Jane's life is pretty good, and the parts that aren't are handled with grace and dignity...until the day she snaps. She's married to a surgeon and is parenting a pre-teen daughter. She has an immature sister with no responsibilities other than her next hook-up, and her mom is in a care home, suffering from Alzheimer's. She's also juggling PTA meetings and coordinating fundraisers for the hospital where her husband works. Oh, and she's also keeping a big secret. Her husband has been cheating on her the entire time they have been married...with men. Yep, her husband is gay, and he's terrified of what coming out will do to his career, so Jane is coerced into living a lie, until the day she just can't anymore.

Jane picks a grocery store parking lot to absolutely lose her shit, and the scene had me in hysterics. A last minute text from her daughter has her standing in the express checkout with a bag of oranges that are needed for soccer practice. Already frazzled, Jane is in a rage when the woman in front of her unloads a cart full of cat food that puts her well over the maximum number of allowed items. She bites back her rage long enough to swallow what she thinks is a pilfered anti-depressant she stole from a friends handbag earlier. When she gets to her car, she sees that cat food lady is parked next to her and has left her cart IN THE PARKING LOT EVEN THOUGH THE CORRAL IS TEN FEET AWAY. Jane snaps. Jane yells and screams, and starts flinging oranges at the confused woman. If that wasn't hysterical enough, turns out the anti-depressant was really a tab of Ecstasy, and when an officer arrives, she is licking the windows of her vehicle and assuming a suggestive position in case the officer wants to frisk her. I was DYING.

Officer McSexy went to high school with Jane and was crushing on her big time, so when Jane has to enroll in a twice-weekly offenders program to avoid jail, she finds herself running into him more. What follows is hilarious and heartwarming...especially poignant was the response to one of Jane's required journal entries:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀...
𝗠𝗲.

Release date is September 7, and you definitely want to add this one to your TBR!

Jane Osborne has lost control. When her personal life starts to fall apart, Jane tries to do whatever she can to keep the wheels on the bus on - until they come free wheelin' straight off.

Jane finds herself in a woman's first time offenders group in place of her misdemeanor charge after an aggressive orange throwing incident and is set on doing whatever she can to regain normalcy, until she realizes that maybe normal isn't worth it.

Queue a sexy detective, a huge social event and some strategically placed animal covers and See Jane Snap is a great beach read - especially for the Suburban housewife!

Thanks to NetGalley, Bethany Crandell, and Montlake for the ARC!

Read if you like:
+ Desperate Housewives
+ Happy Endings
+ Self development and discovery

I have to be honest. This book...well particularly Jane annoyed me so much. It has been a while since I came across a character that I did not like. Right from the beginning; Jane had this really sour attitude. It turned me off and made me mad at her. So much that I could only read two chapters at a time.

I could not understand Jane's hate for her husband and his secret. Yes, I get that it would really shake my world upside down and I would be upset but not to the point like Jane that I would self harm myself or commit a crime.

The story did get better to the point that I could tolerate Jane and read more than two chapters at a time. Overall, my feelings towards this book are "just ok".

If I’ve said it once I’ve said a million times- I’m a sucker for a good suburban drama. You know the kind of story I’m talking about. Women who, on the outside, seem to have the perfect life. Only beyond the perfectly filtered photos and carefully worded posts, their lives are anything but.

In See Jane Snap we meet Jane and Dan Osborne. Jane and Dan have it all. Jane’s a doting mom to her 12 year old, Avery and Chairwoman of the PTA, while Dan is a prominent surgeon in town. They’ve been married for 18 years. Recently, Jane uncovered a secret that changes everything- her husband is secretly living the life of a gay man.

In an effort to keep up appearances and keep things status quo, Jane agrees to go along what she now knows is the “role” of a dutiful wife. Only on the inside the charade is killing her. Indirectly it starts effecting Avery as well. The harder Jane tries to hold on to some normalcy, the more she begins to unravel. Soon it’s apparent that no one is living the life they were meant to lead. Is there any way out or is Jane doomed to fake a life if perfection forever?

Although the undoing of someone’s existence is normally no laughing matter, @bethany_crandell sprinkles enough humor throughout the story to make it relatable. All of the characters evolve in this story, not just Jane which doesn’t always happen, serving as s bit of an interesting twist. I did find myself wanting to know more about the first 18 years of marriage between Dan and Jane. Marriages don’t fall apart overnight, so I would have appreciated learning more about their dynamic.

Even if you’re not a suburban housewife or mom, See Jane Snap is still a totally relatable story to women of a certain age who find themselves trying to balance it all and feel like they are falling short. Anxiety is real y’all. And I’m not even gonna lie- I added a rubber band to my wrist after reading this. 😂