Score: 2.5/5 Bookmarks

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for gifting me a review copy of Been There, Married That by Gigi Levangie.

Agnes Murphy Nash is a writer, living in Hollywood, and married to a well-known producer. She comes home after a book launch to find the locks have been changed. Upon getting into the house her husband announces that he’s not happy being married anymore and is search of something else. A battle ensues.

Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood for this book, or perhaps it simply wasn’t the book for me, but I found the writing choppy and hard to follow, and the characters ultimately unlikeable and two-dimensional. The dialogue felt really unnatural and overall I had a hard time getting into the story. It’s also marketed as being ‘hilarious’ but I really didn’t find any of it particularly witty or amusing.

Take a look at the synopsis below, and see if it might be a book you’d like to read. If so, you can grab a copy by clicking the button below.

Synopsis:

A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal.

When he changes the locks, she changes the rules.

Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife – she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they’re living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties.

But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn’t cover divorce, which is the way Agnes’ life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed. Oh, and there’s a guy there whose job it is to tase her if she tries to enter…which she does. Needless to say, Agnes’ husband is dead set on making sure she loses big time, but Agnes isn’t the type to just lie down and take it. In a world of fremenies and hot nannies, personal psychics and “skinny” jello shots, Agnes may be losing her husband, but could that mean getting her own life back?

Been There, Married That is a drop-dead hilarious battle of wills that will make you laugh out loud, cringe, and keep turning the pages to see what crazy disaster will happen to Agnes next…and how she’ll rise from the ashes.