Loved Class Mom and loved You're Been Volunteered just as much. The funny and witty style of writing is fun and so quick and easy to read. Super cute book with enough of a plot to keep it interesting. Definitely recommend this hilarious and entertaining book!
Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

You've Been Volunteered is the PERFECT followup to Class Mom! I have been anticipating this one since I read Class Mom last year and simply couldn't get enough of it. This book is hilarious, relatable, and original. I hope the author continues to write more books (pretty please) because I am a HUGE fan of her humor and writing style!

Thank you Netgalley for allowing me to read this. I was so happy to hear there was a second book coming. The author did not disappoint. Jen’s Witt is back and in rare form. Such a great sequel. I need more! If you are wanting to read this, read the first book Class Mom first. Congrats Laurie Gelman. You have another hit!

This book was amusing enough, but overall just didn’t quite do it for me. I enjoyed the first Class Mom book - not highbrow literature but fun, funny, and relatable. This one had some elements of the first - particularly, I thought the main character was relatable and funny, and I enjoyed some of the skewering of some of the parental oddities one tends to encounter at an elementary school. But overall it was kind of... boring? I just never really felt engaged in it. I had some trouble keeping track of all the characters, and the plot didn’t really move. There wasn’t really much plot, is the thing. It was more like reading someone’s diary describing what they did that week. The couple of plot elements that were there, I predicted early on, and somehow they never felt central to the story. I guess I don’t really know what actually was central to the story. Essentially it was a fluffy, sometimes funny look inside Jen’s mind, but not a memorable book for me.

FIVE. HILARIOUS. STARS!!

Laurie Gelman’s sophomore novel, You’ve Been Volunteered, is a laugh-out-loud funny and charming story! Jen Dixon is back as Class Mom and I could not wait to read this! I devoured it in one sitting because I could not stop reading.

This second novel follows Jen Dixon and all of her antics as Class Mom of her son’s 3rd grade class. Her emails, thoughts and quick witted remarks were hilarious! I could not stop laughing while reading this.

A lot of sophomore novels don’t live up to the hype or compare to the debut novel, but this novel was JUST AS GOOD as her debut novel, Class Mom. I am so honored I got an early reader’s copy.

Laurie Gelman-please write a 3rd Class Mom book! There has to be another one! Class Mom and You’ve Been Volunteered were 2 of the easiest 5 stars I’ve ever given.

Thank you to the author, Henry Holt & Company and NetGalley for sending me an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review.

I love Laurie Gelman's first book Class Mom and I loved her 2nd book even more!

I'm a class mom, grade parent, PTA Board Member and party chair galore at my kids schools. So relating to this book was easy as can be! I love LOVE LOVE the main character's sense of humor, especially because she says everything that I am secretly, thinking out and in email.

Are there any crazy life lessons in this book? No
Will it make you cry? Maybe from laughing to hard at Jen Dixon (The main characters) emails
Will it change your life? Only from the stand point that you are not alone in your crazy thoughts about the PTA and moms at the schools.

This is the perfect book to read after a heavy emotional book, full of fun and laughter! Great read as always Laurie.

Thank you NetGalley for the Arc!

I was very excited for a sequel of the hilarious "Class Mom". And while this was a quick read and I enjoyed every minute of it, it was missing something that kept it from being as good as the first. The characters were charming and funny and I loved that we got to spend more time with Jen's older kids. I think it just moved too fast through the timeline and I found it hard to truly connect to the plot. However, I highly reccommend if you need a book that will make you laugh so hard you wake up your sleeping husband :)

I thought You’ve Been Volunteered was adorable. I read Class Mom last summer on vacation and shared it with teacher friends that loved it. This should be on your summer reading list when in comes out in July 2019. It is a great summer read. I read it in two evening. It is an easy read with humor and a feel good ending. I think you will enjoy the book more if you read Class Mom first and understand the people that continue into the latest book. Enjoy! This book is a treat.

I did receive this as an advanced readers copy for an honest review. I am not the authors mother or friend, not that I would not like to be her friend.

Thank you to Laurie Gelman and Henry Holt & Company for this ARC.

I absolutely LOVED "Class Mom", so I was stoked when I heard there was a sequel coming out. This book was just as hilarious as the first. I had to stop myself from speed reading it - it's that good. Jen Dixon reminds me so much of the Katie Otto character on the TV show "American Housewife", and I found myself reading parts of the book in Katie's voice.

I loved everything about this book, and am hopeful that there will be a third book. Maybe about Jen adjusting to grandmotherhood?

I was so excited to get an advanced copy of this book as Class mom was one of my favorites. Laurie Gelmam did not disappoint ! Jen is as funny, snarky, and real as she was in the first book and I flew through it ! A great summer beach read for sure !

Laurie Gelman’s latest book, You’ve Been Volunteered is just as quick, clever, and funny as her first, Class Mom. The same cast of characters are all back two years from where the first book left off. Although you don’t have to read Class Mom first, I’d recommend it just because you truly get a feel for the main character, Jen, with her sharp wit and colorful commentary as she works through every day “mom-duties.” These books are like sitting down to watch your favorite family sitcom; they move fast, keep you laughing, and even with this second book, leave you still wanting more (whether you’re a real life mom or not!).

NOTE: Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher of this book for allowing me to read an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Just like Class Mom, You've Been Volunteered will make you literally laugh out loud! Class mom, Jen is back in You've Been Volunteered with her witty emails, interactions with her daughters who seem to be following in mom's footsteps and even some time with Jen's parents who are experiencing life in a whole new way these days. Laurie Gelman is hilarious and I hope she keeps on writing!

Class Mom is one of my favorite books to recommend to moms and people who just love moms alike. I was so excited to read Gelman's sequel - You've Been Volunteered. This second book is still laugh out loud funny at moments, but it misses just a little bit of the magic from the debut. I think that's because of Jen Dixon's natural evolution in the series. No one would want her to stay the narcissistic woman we met at the beginning of Class Mom, but she sure was a riot.

Loved this book terrific follow up to Class Mom Jen returns snarky funny honest class volunteer..I laughed laughed laughed enjoyed every page will be gifting this to my friends.#betgalley#henryholt&company

Jen Dixon is back!!! I loved "Class Mom" so you can imagine how excited I was to get an advanced copy of "You've Been Volunteered", sequel to the first book. Thank you NetGalley, Laurie Gelman, and Henry Holt & Company for the opportunity to be one of the first ones to read and review this awesome book!
And once again Laurie Gelman does not disappoint...I was belly laughing while reading about Jen Dixon's new adventures in being Class Mom! As I was reading the novel I kept thinking that I wish all class mom's were so much fun...I wanted to be Jen's best friend! The writing style and the witty humor in both books reminds me a lot of Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovitch. Both author are great story tellers with an excellent sense of humor. So if you are in a need of a light, funny, quirky, and sassy book, ready "Class Mom" and " You've Been Volunteered" and you wont' be disappointed! Now, I am waiting for the third book in the series....I mean there has to be another one, right?

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read You've Been Volunteered, by Laurie Gelman, in exchange for an honest review.

You've Been Volunteered is a follow up to Gelman's first hysterical and equally humorous novel, Class Mom.

You've Been Volunteered is a crack-up out loud kind of read. Anyone who has ever been involved with a school PTA, or as a classroom mom, will surely relate. Anyone who has not yet "volunteered" for these positions, take heed and run. Yes, listen up. There is so much snarky truth to this novel.

Jen, my hero in this book, is always being challenged. She has a cancer surviving mother, children of her one, and will soon be a Grandma. As if this is not enough, Jen has agreed to be her 3rd grade son's classroom mom. What was she thinking? She'd done this hefore.

So, Jen has been down this road before. With her experience, how hard it could be, right? What she didn't plan on was being "volunteered" to run the Safety at the crosswalks program.

Jen speaks her mind. She is a no nonsense kind of gal. She is over petty patents and unreasonable teachers. Jen says it like it is, unfiltered, no regard for political correctness, and has no time for BS along the way.

You"ve Been Volunteered is a perfect follow-up Class Mom. Jen is so relatable. She's a hoot and you will laugh your way through this novel, just as you did the first. This book should be a required read for anyone considering a PTA/classroom experience. Don't say you weren't warned!

#youvebeenvolunteered #netgalley #lauriegelman

3.5 stars
I was so pumped to start this after reading Class Mom, but in retrospect I should have waited a little bit. It is still the same funny book with snarky Jen, but it's not quite as fresh and funny as the first book. This one tackles a few heavier issues: cancer, unexpected pregnancy (not a spoiler because I'm not telling you who it is), aging parents, and it takes a bit of the edge off of the humor.
Just a bit though, and there are many hilarious incidents that I totally could relate to, or at least be very glad that it was Jen experiencing it and not me.
I'd love to read another book in this series, because I want to know what happens!

If you enjoyed Laurie Gelman’s first book Class Mom, then this sequel will not disappoint! Jen is back and is as sassy as ever. She has once again taken on class mom duties and while a good portion of the book revolves around issues that come up at school, we get to know more about Jen’s home life and the relationships that she has with her grown daughters and her aging parents. Overall I would give this book a solid 4 stars.

I was excited to see that my favorite class mom Jen Dixon was back for a a sequel to Laurie Gelman's Class Mom. Jen's son Max is now is 3rd grade and she is back as class mom sending out snarky emails, trying and failing at Sign Up Genius, organizing crossing guard duty, all while navigating her husband's attempt to franchise his sporting goods store, caring for her ageing parents and navigating the complicated lives of her two twenty-something daughters.

You've Been Volunteered was definitely entertaining, but I felt that Jen and this sequel lacked a little of the punch that the first book had. There were so many plot lines and threads that I don't think they all got the attention they deserved.

Enjoyable, but not as memorable as the first book.

A second helping of Class Mom, Laurie’s new book “You’ve Been Volunteered” is a hilarious, irreverent novel. There are so many times I wished I would/ could say what Jen says. It might be “oh so wrong” but she makes me laugh every time! I love her snark and how she deals with her family/ kids/ friends/ other moms, etc. Only “negative” to this book is that I wish there were more books in the time frame between Class Mom and this one. I truly hope there are more novels from Laurie!

(Will post to Goodreads and Amazon once it comes out.)