The Friendship List

Author: Susan Mallery

Publish Date: August 04, 2020 by HQN

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Book Review:

Thank you Harlequin and Netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for an honest opinion.

Ellen is a thirty-four and a single mom to seventeen-year-old son Cooper while Unity is the same age as Ellen and a widow. Her late husband an army man died three years back in the line of duty. It is so difficult for her to overcome the pain and is stuck. For Ellen, her life has always been going to work, taking care of her son and her home. She overhears a conversation between her son and his friend and is disappointed to know that he doesn't want to go to his dream college because he doesn't want to leave his mom alone.

Ellen and Unity are best friends forever and realize that their life is in a rut and come up with a list of things they both want to do and achieve in order to pull their lives back on track. They challenge each other that whoever achieves most items in the list wins.

Susan Mallery is one of my favorite authors and she writes beautiful stories about friendship, relationships, and women supporting and empowering each other.

The characters are well developed and quite relatable. It is an awesome summer read and I will absolutely recommend it.

Synopsis:

[ ] Dance till dawn

[ ] Go skydiving

[ ] Wear a bikini in public

[ ] Start living

Two best friends jump-start their lives in a summer that will change them forever…Single mom Ellen Fox couldn’t be more content—until she overhears her son saying he can’t go to his dream college because she needs him too much. If she wants him to live his best life, she has to convince him she’s living hers.

So Unity Leandre, her best friend since forever, creates a list of challenges to push Ellen out of her comfort zone. Unity will complete the list, too, but not because she needs to change. What’s wrong with a thirtysomething widow still sleeping in her late husband’s childhood bed?

The Friendship List begins as a way to make others believe they’re just fine. But somewhere between “wear three-inch heels” and “have sex with a gorgeous guy,” Ellen and Unity discover that life is meant to be lived with joy and abandon, in a story filled with humor, heartache and regrettable tattoos.

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