This was a miss for me. The author considers 35 to be older and is in her early forties. She interviewed a couple of self proclaimed experts for each section like skin care, heterosexual sex, etiquette, how to buy fine art, sleep, exercise, etc. Each chapter has a lot of rambling about her own experience, advice from the expert or two, and then takeaways that are summarized in a few sentences. None of it is groundbreaking and most of it involves spending a lot of money. It is very rudimentary in most cases, like the advice about money is to find a reputable financial planner and then if you think you can invest $500 a month then do $550 instead.

The author is wealthy, white, straight, married, thin, healthy and in her forties with two young children, a helpful husband and no apparent serious challenges in any way. The book is written only for her own demographic. There is no advice for women with health issues, disabilities, financial problems, relationship difficulties, aging parents, depression, neurodivergence, etc. There is no talk about menopause, even though that’s right around the corner for the author and her demographic and will lead to new issues in most of the topics this book covers.

The gist of the advice is accept your body, eat what you want, lift heavy weights, buy expensive face creams but don’t use a ton of products, stop drinking (but there’s a chapter on how to buy the best wine), get sleep, drink cow milk, eat more protein, make time for friends and creativity, use sex toys and lube, have maintenance sex, and buy fine art that you like and hang it at 53 inches.

I read the entire book but didn’t learn anything new. Those in the author’s demographic who do not research any of these issues already may enjoy it more. Sorry to be harsh, but I would have been very disappointed if I had spent money on this book and was anyone but a wealthy, healthy 40 year old straight white woman with a near perfect life already.

I read a digital review copy of this book via netgalley.