Felt I was dropped into an ongoing drama and had no time to catch up. While I know this is not the first book in this series, a little bit of lead through is always a good idea in the next books. Still, aside from that, the chronology was strange and the whole jumping back and forth made for an inconsistent and confusing read - just could not get into this story (there was also no clear delineation when the characters would veer into reminiscence and this further added to the confused feeling)

i thought this book was really good and really ctue. it's full of likeable characters and that makes it even more amazing!! a little cute and a little romance. likde it.

This is book 4, however, it can be read as a standalone.. Each of the 3 women are extremely dissatisfied with their lives. However, not for the same reasons for reasons you would think. This was an easy read, however, I think it would have made more sense to me reading the history of each character.

This book is about three women, who are not happy with their lives. Each one of them has a different motive, but in the end they share the same unhappiness. Would they be able to turn things around and find the way out from their struggles?
It was an easy read. I think the author missed the chance to work up to the potential of the story. Perhaps in the future she will find the way to do that.
Thank you Netgalley for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Really enjoyed reading this book. It is an easy, funny read that I would definitely recommend. Love the characters - I have not come across such unique characters in a book in a while. The emotions and the trials of the characters was however very relatable. Also loved the ending. I have read so many books in the past year where I felt disappointed when I finished the book. Not so with this book - on finishing the book I felt that reading this book was time well spent.

Beyond Belly Dancing To Babies and More
This is the fourth book in a series. This book stands alone very well. If you have read the series you might enjoy this more, but it is far from necessary. This is not a clean book, just a little off-color. The story is very funny and most women can relate to at least some of it. Besides the abundance of off the wall characters, they are fighting city hall and ex-husbands. I enjoyed it so much that I want to go back and read the two books of the series that I missed. I received this ARC book for free from Net Galley and this is my honest review.

This is the 1st Book I have read by the author, I really struggled to understand where the story was going with this and it took me a long time to finish it as I had to keep starting and stopping it .

I wish the author all the best with this book, but the book wasn't for me

With thanks to NetGalley, & Publisher for the arc of this book in exchange for this review

This book was as flat as Sheryl's emotional affect towards Steven and Baby Bea through the majority of the book. Although there was some humorous moments, I felt this book lacked character development. The one bright light was Beatrice and her determination in anyway possible to save the library!

In theory, Three Angry Women and a Baby follows the three women as they try to navigate their lives and relationships to each other after one of them has a baby. In execution, I had trouble identifying who the titular three women were, and the significance of the actual baby was questionable.

The narrator, Sheryl, is certainly one of our women. The story begins with the birth of her first daughter, Baby Bea, and jumps back and forth in time a bit between the birth and early days of Baby Bea's life and Sheryl's relationship with her sweet, loving husband, Steven. The two met after one of Sheryl's belly-dancing performances and quickly fell into bed in a lustful rush that lasted about ten years, surviving the early years of marriage living with Sheryl's difficult mother, until Sheryl lost all interest in physical, sexual, and emotional intimacy after giving birth to Baby Bea.

Speaking of Sheryl's mother, Beatrice seems to be our second angry woman. Quite the character, Beatrice is set in her ways, and a devoted believer in the adage "mother knows best." Indeed, she claims to know best about everything, most amusingly repeatedly taking Baby Bea out of Sheryl's arms while nursing in order to take over the feeding herself. Beatrice is a committed library employee (which should have endeared her to me immediately), who decides to start inventive children's storytelling sessions when her official position is eliminated due to budget cuts by the city council.

As for the third angry woman, it was kind of a draw between Steven's sister, Helen, and her daughter, Amy. Helen works with Sheryl at some sort of construction/plumping company and at some point over the course of the novel manages to divorce her absent, verbally abusive, selfish husband Henry. After years of placating him, all of Helen's suppressed anger and frustration lets loose, especially when Henry stops drinking and steps it up in the preparation for their daughter Amy's wedding. Amy is ready to forgive and forget, welcoming Henry into the wedding planning, and closing Helen out, and their relationship becomes more and more fraught as the book goes on.

Unfortunately, the identity of the third woman is not the only source of confusion in this novel. Even more significant, the timeline of the story was incredibly unclear, lots of drama squeezed into a very short period with inconsistent chronology and then a sudden six month jump in which not one character seemed to demonstrate growth. I also couldn't get a handle on Sheryl's relationship with her mother. From the outset, there seemed to be a lot of tension between the two of them and reminded me in many ways of Eleanor Oliphant, but there was no explanation or resolution by the time the novel concluded, so it was just tension for tension's sake, which was disappointing to read.

This was a first draft that definitely needs an intensive comb-through by editors, but I'm not necessarily convinced that a fantastic story could be parsed from the pages I read.