by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

Best friends since childhood, Casey and Rachel couldn’t lead more different lives. While workaholic Casey rubs elbows with celebrities daily as the host of Gossip TV and comes home nightly to an empty apartment, stay-at-home mom Rachel juggles an “oops” baby, two fiery teenagers, and a husband who barely seems the man she fell in love with two decades before. After an argument at their twentieth high school reunion, Casey and Rachel throw back shots to get the night back on track. Instead, they get a life-changing hangover.

Waking up in each other’s bodies the next morning, they must figure out how to navigate their altered realities. Rachel is forced to confront the reason she gave up her broadcasting dreams when she got pregnant in college, and Casey finally steps out of the spotlight to face the truth about why she’s alone. And they soon discover that they don’t know themselves—or their best friend—nearly as well as they thought they did.

Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke bring humor and heart to every page of this novel that is sure to please fans of In Her Shoes and The Opposite of Me. Your Perfect Life is a story about two very different women, what they didn’t know about each other, and how, by switching lives, they each learn to appreciate their own.

I fully intended to get to this book last summer by the pool, but "the best laid plans"........you know how it goes 🙂 I did bring it on vacation this spring to a balmy climate, so it still worked out. This book was a really quick, fun, and thoroughly enjoyable read. I love that it is written by two best friends who live across the country from each other (good thing we live in the internet age!). It's cleverly written, you really engage with the characters, and of course can't wait to see how it all plays out. I love that while the premise of the book was for each of them to appreciate what they had in their life, they also manage to create a better life for each other while in their  friend's shoes (literally in their shoes!). They discover how to make the life they are living even more fulfilling. You do need to avoid over analyzing while you are reading, of course it's not remotely possible that people would not catch on if you switched bodies, but just take it with a grain of salt, and you will enjoy. The authors have a new book coming in June that looks just as fun, so I'll be looking for that one.......maybe I'll even read it at the pool this summer!

Pick this one up for a light, fun take on "the grass is always greener on the other side".