i really liked this! i didn't know what to expect when i first started reading, but the story really captured me. i was rooting for Allie, i was so invested in her journey and everything in her life. i loved Jordan as a character, the best of friends. and the romance! i waited what felt like years for the romance to happen and when it did i scream.
the few things i didn't love: the number of times Bravo is mentioned. Allie's relationship with her mom, i wished we had a bit more resolution there. and, also, i feel like almost everyone in this book have a drinking problem. i don't know any 35 year olds who actually drink that much.

Welcome to the worst day of Allison’s life. Fired from her job after 12 years of loyal service and unceremoniously dumped by her fiancé (who has been sleeping with her maid of honour) just hours after. She has no idea how to start picking up the pieces.

Her best friend convinced her to take time off to do some soul searching. So over the next few months that is exactly what she does. However, after listening to friends, advice from self help books and yogis, maybe now it’s time to start listening to herself and follow her heart.

I loved this book so much. If ever there was a book I needed turned into a Netflix film this is it!

I flew through this book. I loved the humor and the romance - my favorite genre of the moment. It had a lot of yoga and coffee and self-reflection without being preachy or heavy. I love books that make you think about how you think but aren’t clinical. Eric is one of my favorite male characters in a long time and we all need a Jordan in our lives! ;). I will definitely pick up future books after reading this debut.

Charming Falls Apart is an enjoyable, fairly light read. It’s the story of a woman whose life, at 35, falls apart. Everything falls apart on the same day, The story details what she does to try to pull herself together again and what she learns about herself in the process. The characters are pleasant, and not too deeply drawn. This is a good read for a holiday, or a beach read. On the whole an enjoyable novel.
Thanks to Girl Friday Productions and NetGalley for an arc of this novel for review.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for my digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

And honestly? This book was not a clear cut four stars for me. Sometimes I really enjoyed it and sometimes it was a struggle. The book starts out with Allison losing her job and coming home to inform her fiance about it. When she gets home, however, instead of the "it's going to be okay, honey" pep talk she kind of thought she would get, he informs her that he doesn't want to get married anymore because he has fallen out of love with her. Not only that, but he has been messing around with one of her best friends and has fallen IN love with her. This has never personally happened to me but I have dated a tool like that so I was easily able to picture it and feel empathy for her. She has lost one best friend and another is suddenly not returning her calls but she has one best friend who has always been there for her and suggests some self help. She can't go to her mother about how she is feeling because she has lost her mind and is wanting Allison to do whatever she has to so that she can get some grand babies. So every day she winds up at the coffee shop where she slowly starts to become friends with the owner. From there, things just naturally lead to new things happening in her life. What I DID love about the story was all of the growth that happened. I can handle cliche reads but what I want to know is did they come back from it? Who helped them? What did they learn about life and themselves along the way? And Allison did take the time to learn who she is basically...and once you do that, the things you lost are not quite as important because you are no longer that person. I would definitely recommend this book. :)

This is a lovely, charming book. It's not a roller coaster of a plot, but it is steady and remarkably insightful. I appreciated the growth that the character experiences over the course of the novel. Without all of the crazy weirdness that usually accompanies characterization in these types of books (under the guise of making the main character quirky) there's just - a lot of growth. I really appreciated reading this book. Not necessarily as a silly time waster, but as something deeply reflective and insightful.

Allisons life falls apart when she loses her job and then gets left by her fiance on the same day. The book is her story of how she deals with this - self help books are a strong feature!
A great read - looking forward to reading more from this author.

This was sweet and cute, but a little trite? I did like how it all came together at the end with Allisons realizations about her journey this far.

This story is a sweet easy read. It was well written . Her fiancé leaves her for he maid of honor and she needs to navigate this new reality. Will she find love again? You will have to read to find out. If you are into cute romance novels , then this one is for you. Thanks #netgalley and #AngelaTerry for allowing me to read an advanced copy for an honest review. Book comes out August 4th. #charmingfallsapart

Alison has just turned 35 and her life is falling apart. She’s been fired from her job and her fiancé tells her just weeks before the wedding that he’s been having an affair with her maid of honor. Alison feels lost and confused. Through many self help books, some spiritual retreats, and the owner of a new coffee shop Alison starts to realize the life she thought was perfect was merely boxes checked off on her list. Alison has to rediscover herself and learn how to be happy on her own first first time in years.

This was a really cute book. I wish the self discovery came before 90% of the book was over though. I would have liked more on her life after discovering what she wanted to do with her life and deciding she was ready for dating. Overall I still enjoyed it and felt very empathetic towards Alison as a character. I couldn’t imagine going through what she did and she handled it with such grace. I enjoyed her relationship with her best friend, Jordan, as well and how she constantly was there when Alison needed it.

Thank you to Netgalley and Angela Terry for those e-ARC. Charming Falls Apart is out on August 4, 2020.

Thank you to the author, Spark Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a quick read, picking up the story immediately at crisis point for the heroine - she is unexpectedly fired from her job, and comes home to her fiancé breaking it off with her shortly before their wedding within the first few pages of the book. So it's clear from the get-go that there will be introspection, reflection and - hopefully - finding oneself through the story. And then the plot kind of stalls, and not a lot happens. Although I've never been in the heroine's situation, I can empathize with the impulse to withdraw and veg out on the couch... but moving out of that, there wasn't much that engaged me in what was happening. I did really like the character of the best friend, who was there for the heroine in so many ways. But I find it hard to believe that a 35-year old career woman would be so blithely self-unaware, and such a doormat. The romance developed slowly, and with the requisite misunderstandings and much agonizing by the heroine. Who ever heard of just straight up openly addressing things and clearing up murky issues? Not here. It's an okay read, but for me, not a great one.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review!

I am torn on this book- it became quite repetitive for the middle third. Allie gets upset or set back by something, goes to the bookstore, buys a different self-help book, and has another "epiphany". Repeat, repeat, repeat. However, the first and last thirds of the book are interesting and engaging, and make you want to keep reading! Allie can be a frustrating character, because she will listen to pretty much anything or anyone. That made me want to read it even more though, to find out what would happen to her.

'Unemployed, dumped, and, ultimately, bad at life'

This quote describes the protagonist really well, or at least her starting point when this book starts. It seems like everything in her life has gone wrong and the seemingly perfect life she had built for herself was not as perfect as she thought. She loses her job of 12 years and her future husband all in one day. Anyone in her position would, rightly so, be crushed by the weight of it all.

This story is incredibly uplifting: through ups and down Allison tries to get her life back together, which I personally found very inspiring. We all go through difficult times in life and the best thing I learned from this book is to never just admit defeat. Yes, you can have a moment or two of self pity and indulging into comfort food in your pjs for days, but at some point you have to pick yourself up and try to put the pieces back together.

Through the help of an amazing life-long friend and a new cute barista/entrepreneur, through meditation retreats and a few self-help books, Allison finds a way back to herself, discovers that maybe she wasn't so happy about her job and realize a lot of things about the people she had surrounded herself with and the kind of person she had become.

The only reason why I didn't give this book five stars is that I would have wanted a bit more of Eric, but beside that, this book was perfect.

I enjoyed this book! It was a great “easy read type of book for the summer. I appreciated the character and what she had to discover about herself to pull herself back up. There were times when I found myself skimming a bit, but overall this was a good read!

I related to Allison from the jump. As a fellow Type A rule follower who often identifies by my job I appreciated her mindset and reactions even if I found her too rigid at times — especially when it came to food so I appreciated when she began to lighten up.

This book was cute — it gave me Evvie Drake Starts Over meets By The Book Pod vibes.

I’d love to read about Jordan, the real hero of this book!

Note: I found the flippant use of agoraphobia to be insensitive and unnecessary. It’s a mental illness not an adjective to describe staying home and moping for a few days.

Review will be posted to my bookstagram within a few days.

I love when a book starts right in on the action of the novel. Charming Falls Apart bring us right into Allison's worst day in progress. Allison is fired from her PR job, her fiancé is leaving her, it is her birthday, friendship betrayals, work betrayals and a mom that cares too much.

What is unique is that this story is written almost like journal entries, which tie very nicely into the themes of the book. We get to see her re-evaluating her life and work. I love the support from her best friend, Jordan. Jordan is a great secondary character in the novel and we see some changes going on with her as well, Allison also becomes a regular at the self help aisle in Barnes & Noble and at a new coffee place. The coffee shop has a handsome owner, Eric and delightful flirtation happens when they instantly connect.

With the journal entry style we really get to see Allison grow throughout the story. We are there for her busy days and also quite a few downer days of watching Bravo and HGTV. I can relate!

For readers who may be triggered or sensitive to alcohol: there was a lot of social drinking in this story.

Charming Falls Apart was a pleasant surprise! A quick, fun read with characters I was rooting for.

Netgalley provided me with this book for an honest review.

From the start of this novel, it was clear that this novel was a story of finding oneself during loss and struggle. Whilst there were funny elements to this story through its dialogue, it was almost a self-help guide to life, love, and occupations.

The protagonist, Allison, finds herself lost before her 35th birthday when she loses her job and fiancée on the same day. Although I am not 35 and haven’t lost both my job and fiancée, the way in which she handled the situation felt very authentic and I related to her thoughts and feelings about the situation and her life in general. It also provided a lot of advice that I felt enhanced the novel and its plot. Furthermore, the way in which the characters were written was very fleshed out and they were ultimately flawed, which added more realism to the story. The love interest was also written exceptionally well and came together naturally as it does in life.

What let this story down though for me was the plot. There was nothing bad about it but there were little ups and downs and it felt as if the entire story was on one continuous path where there wasn’t a lot happening. I was expecting a lot more turbulence on her path to self-discovery and from her trip to Costa Rica, which I thought was going to be the majority of the story and ended up just being around 10% of the novel. Overall, it was a quick and addicting read that felt authentic and gave good advice, but it needed more ups and downs in order to be more engaging and fully captivate me.

I love a good light read for the summer and I gotta say Charming Falls Apart was a welcomed distraction from this less the amazing summer.

Assuming read the summary, you don't need my help telling you what it's about so I won't spare you the details. What I will say is that it's refreshing to get into a story about woman dealing with a breakdown in her life, and doing the work to fix herself. No man to come in and save her (but yes, there is a man present in her journey to saving herself). Yup, I gotta say I liked it a lot.

Not sure if the title really did it for me. A weird criticism I know, but that's how I feel. And for some reason, this book felt a little bit too long. Or perhaps there was unnecessary filler that made me tempted to skim. But it was a read I needed in these crazy times, so I accept the flaws for what was an otherwise nice story.

This wasn't a romance that really hit home for me. I couldn't connect with Allison and Eric's chemistry.
Plot was not very unique to me, and I found myself rolling my eyes. I didn't become somewhat invested in the story until around 25% in.
Also, the formatting of this book made it a bit difficult to read via kindle.
I don't regret reading this - I don't like everything I read. But it was by far my favorite romance novel.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book! I thought it was going to be purely a romance book, but the story held so much more depth than just the main character falling in love.

The first half of the book describes the pain that Allison experiences after losing her job and her fiance on the same day (yikes)! The romance snuck up on me, and didn't play a role until Allison did quite a bit of soul searching on her own. I was thankful for that––it showed that Allison didn't rely on a man to pull her out of her funk, but instead she found healing on her own. Plus, she continued to stand up for herself and not take any sh*t, even though her life was turned upside down in some really difficult ways. Her friend Jordan was so fiercely loyal and encouraging. Eric, the love interest, was very like-able, and I loved watching their friendship grow. I really enjoyed this book. Angela did a great job of writing characters that I could relate to and imagine while I was reading.

This book covered quite a bit: heartache, complicated family relations, female friendships, personal growth, and healthy relationships.

Rating: 4.5/5

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book!