Like This, But Funnier is a book with an interesting storyline but ultimately just felt flat and with a lot of wasted potential.

Caroline is able to be a relatable character, with the way she views motherhood and the way people’s lives completely change after having kids, her struggle with work and having all these ideas and goals but also being too tired and unmotivated to actually follow through, being self aware of her flaws and her wrong actions but still doing them anyway. She’s not a good person when it comes to her actions, but her thoughts makes her connect with the reader.

The book has an interesting premise, and to a certain point I was interested in seeing Caroline navigate through her lies while still trying to keep a good social and professional life, but I was also just bored. Everything felt very surface level, like the author didn’t want to go too deep into certain parts of the plot to keep things light, when it’d be so much more interesting if it was more dramatic, harsher, darker.

The humor was not for me, very much the millennial type with a lot of self-deprecating jokes and awkward moments and while I think it wasn’t necessarily bad, I also didn’t find it entertaining.