Love It! I cracked up sooooo many times. I absolutely love that the FMC is of a certain age. Being older it’s frustrating that all rom coms etc seem to be about 20-30 year olds. I also love *****massive spoiler****** that the happy ending is Sylvia getting a happy and fulfilling life that actually doesn’t include romance.

Hilarious 😂 Golden Girls in Sex and the City and then some. What a gem!!

A book about two women over 60 There is no sloppy ending, no returning to an old love, etc just a fun but thoughtful book about aging, family, friends, enemies, and life. A job that looks to be such fun is not really but it is interesting what can happen while planning a wedding.

fun easy read After she catches her husband in bed with another woman, Sylvia decides to make a huge change. The book was exactly the escape I needed.

A fun and funny RomCom This book is a quick, sweet, fun, and funny romcom that literally made me laugh out loud at least a dozen times! Sylvia is a wonderful protagonist, and Evie is her perfect sidekick. The fact that they are twice the age of many romcom heroines makes this book even better. Enjoy! also

So fun!! Loved this book! Writer did a great job with story line and characters. Such a fun read. Was surprised to see that this is the author’s first book. Will definitely be watching for her next one.

Entertaining Read This book is an entertaining read as Sylvia works on her second act. There are interesting characters and laugh out loud moments too.

This would make a great movie What a great book! I love everything about it and applaud the author for writing a fun, witty, sexy, complex, and honest story about what it looks like to start over as a woman of a certain age (Sylvia is 63, and her BFF is nearly 80).When Sylvia comes home to find a from the neighborhood straddling her husband in a ‘reverse cowgirl’ position, the retired, entitled world she had come to know in a posh Florida community comes crashing down. When her husband also reveals that he lost all their retirement money through mismanagement, Sylvia needs to hear no more. Spending the night with Evie, her octogenarian bestie, and then a couple of nights with her daughter in Connecticut, Sylvia realizes only she alone can take the steps to move forward and devises a plan to take her life back. She hocks all her jewelry and with Evie as a roommate, rents an apartment in New York City and starts over as a wedding planner.This book is awesome. It is a quick read and super witty. Without any overt sex and with the only f-bombs being dropped are those by a sweet 80-year-old, I’d say it’s a clean book. The best part is the honesty of each encounter. Sylvia is a meddler, she doesn’t mean to do the wrong thing, and her intentions are always pure, but she finds herself in the middle of a lot of drama and the way author Hillary Yablon addresses Sylvia’s shortcomings with immediate honesty and clarity of language is simply refreshing.If I could make one reading dream come true, I would want more writers to (a) write with this kind of purity; and (b) write about women of this certain age (read: over 40).Thank you, Hillary Yablon. Well done. SIDE NOTE: THIS WOULD MAKE AN EXCEPTIONAL AND HILARIOUS MOVIE.

Fabulous This book captured my attention from the very first pages and held it to the very end. I absolutely loved this book.

Great Read for Everyone What a great book about starting your life over after life hits you with disaster.Sylvia is a great role model for all ages of women.

So much fun Really enjoyed this realistic but amusing book! Loved the characters & being mature myself could identify with her & the fun situations!

Like the concept of a second act😁 I needed a book that was not too serious, that I would enjoy on vacation. This was a great choice. It had love, drama, family quirkiness, surprise, and rewards. Fun.

Funny, touching, and kind of crazy Sylvia’s Second Act by Hillary Yablon was a fun read from start to finish. Sixty-three year old Sylvia comes home to find her husband in the act of cheating on her and that he has also bankrupted them and instead of feeling sorry for herself, she decides she’s done (she hadn’t been all that happy in the relationship anyway) so she leaves to start over and find some happiness in her life. The story is funny, touching, and kind of crazy (maybe unrealistic in how well things go?!), but I enjoyed it all. I loved Sylvia’s spunk, tenacity, and her sense of adventure.

Absolutely entertaining I loved this book so much, I didn’t want it to end. It’s hilarious and touching at the same time. I loved going along on Sylvia’s journey to find her way after leaving her idiotic husband and dealing with her out of touch daughter along the way. Highly recommend!

Fun Read Sylvia decides to reinvent herself after she leaves her cheating husband on Florida, who, to add insult to injury, lost their retirement savings through bad investments. The book follows her in her new life, the resulting family drama, and her involvement with her client as a wedding planner. The situations are hilarious as she navigates her life in New York City with her best friend as a roommate.

Good book, but editing was poor I really enjoyed this book, and plowed right through it. At times, it made me bust out laughing and at other times it made me gasp in shock!It was fast paced, and an easy read. Overall very enjoyable.My problem with it was that the editing was very poor. I find it hard to fathom how a book with such popularity can make it to the readers with spelling and grammar errors peppered throughout. It’s unfortunate, because the writing was fun and engaging. But the mistakes left a bad taste in my mouth.Hilary Yablon deserved better.

I actually did laugh aloud several times while reading this! Very shocking and alternately funny. I laughed and held my breath so many times that it felt like emotional excercise. I truly enjoyed it.

Wonderful!! As an older reader it is refreshing to read about a totally cool lady with plenty of years experience. I am really looking forward to a sequel

Delightful! Have a fun summer read! A breath of fresh air with two older women deciding to start over and succeeding. So many funny moments, I may just keep the book to find laughter whenever I need it.

TEN STARS So good. Loved this book. I hope more women will read it and heed it. And no, life is not always as easy as this book made it out to be but still it really has a message.

Love it! I think any age would love this but being Sylvia’s age made me love it so much more. FIRST book I’ve ever read with a heroine in her 60’s – and she is a badass! Excellent story – more please 😁.

Heartwarming, fun, and full of laughs! Best book I have read in a long time. I just loved the characters and the story so much! You can’t help but smile while reading this book! Highly recommend!

A Great Adventure with Sylvia! I loved this book! It provided many laugh-out-loud moments. There were some disappointments along the way, but Sylvia made me want to root for her at every turn. This is just a fun read with some relatable moments at this age in life.

Marvelous Oh, that this were longer! It’s a lovely romp and I was delighted to spend time with nearly each character, especially the indomitably spirited main ones and the very kind, generous, and intrepid Reese.

I could not put it down all day Except when the cardiologist interrupted my read. But I’ve just finished it at Quaker midnight, ie 9pm. So much fun and wit; one chaotic crisis after another. Usual problems, family crises, weddings, divorces and affairs, spiced with career upheaval and housing horrors. Nicely constructed solutions, complications, and characters. I thoroughly enjoyed the generational relationships and spats. I’m older than the oldest character in the book but there were scenes I could not have imagined that struck true as well as entertaining.

Great Storytelling! Sylvia is a 60-something woman living unhappily in a Florida retirement community. She has lived her life for her husband and her daughter, until one afternoon, she walks in on her husband cheating on her. Feeling betrayed (as she should), she first runs to her daughter’s house, then to Manhattan.Hillary Yablon is a great storyteller — Sylvia’s story is witty, charming, heartwarming and sometimes a little heartbreaking. I loved it!

A delightful read!! Finally a book for a women over 50!! Laugh out loud funny ,inspirational and nicely paced. Highly recommend!!!❤️Thank you Hillary!!!

an older person version of a Sophie Kinsella book A darling read that pulls Sophie Kinsella vibes. I dig it. I wish not so many F bombs though. I love the main character’s optimism and wit.

A must read for women of a certain age. Interesting story with humor, sadness, love, inspiration, fantasy and reality. A beautifully written fast read book. Perfect ending for all the characters.

Quintessential beach read Obviously, this is a fantasy novel for the AARP crowd…. like me!!!But, very escapist and entertaining. I look forward to reading more from this author.

amazingly funny! Never enjoyed or laughed so much in my life. Well written and the surprises until the end were a joy!

delicious, fun and inspiring !! *Spoilers: great tale about a woman who transcends a cheating husband in Boca and recreates herself at 63 in NYC. It’s funny and a very enjoyable and quick read. I recommend it!

A Must Read! Oh my word this book was fabulous! Sylvia, a sixty- three year old, finds her husband in bed with her nemesis in a retirement community in Boca Raton. She and her seventy-seven year old bestie, Evie, move to New York to start a new life. She restarts her wedding planning career and shenanigans ensue! This book is laugh out loud funny. Strong women rule!

Such a great read I thoroughly enjoyed this fun and unexpected story of a heroine I immediately wanted to be friends with. Humor, plot twists, family tensions that are relatable and real – this novel has it all. Highly recommend & I look forward to future books by Hillary Yablon.

A book you don’t want to miss This book is incredibly funny yet realistic at the same time. It has a few surprises and a few things to make you feel good. I just hope there will be a sequel or that Hillary Yablon will write another book.

cute! Obviously pretty unrealistic – every problem is magically fixed in a day – but a fun, quick and cute read. And loved reading about a 60-something protagonist.

I want the movie! This has been one of the best books I’ve read this year! It was so funny, heart warming, and reminder you can start over at ANY age. Sylvia has been one of my absolute favorite characters ever written. – she is funny, a dreamer, brave, and respectable and I love how she always drifted off to some fanatasy – it reminded me of me haha. I want to be her friend even with a 30 year age gap between us. The author did an amazing job at making me feel like I was right there in every scene with her. I couldn’t put this book down and I highly reccomend especially if you love Sex and the City and a good come back story. I hope there is a second book!

Love Sylvia Sylvia is a strong woman. She deals with the crazy and sad things in her life with grace and class. She made me laugh and cry.

love every single word Not to be missed. Incredible debut Novel. I hope Hillary continues this as a long series. More Sylvia please 🙂

Fun and touching story What a fantastic book! From the first page you know it’s going to be an entertaining read. And it is. But it’s also so soulful. The characters ring absolutely true and honest. The story expertly weaves humor with realities of life. I did not want to put it down!

So good! Such a fun book! It was a delight to read. I didn’t want it to end. Can’t wait to read what Hillary Yablon writes next!

Love an older MC Sylvia’s second act starts when she catches her husband of 40+ years in the act of cheating on her. She also finds out he has lost most of their money in a bad investment after making them move to Boca in Florida. Sylvia has never liked the move and decides to flee for her daughter’s house in CT. But Isabelle isn’t sympathetic to Sylvia. She wants her parents to kiss and makeup, but Sylvia has spent her entire adult life listening to others and she wants to her own life. She convinces her bff Evie to move to NYC with her and it will be as glamorous as Sex and the City makes it seem. (Any girl who has ever moved to NYC has a little of this expectation!)But things don’t go as planned, especially on such a limited budget. Sylvia and Evie must hustle to find a place to live and get jobs. Sylvia had previously been a wedding planner until a disgruntled bride set her lawn on fire. Could she start the business up again? If you can make it in NYC, can you really make it anywhere?This book was laugh out loud funny. Sylvia gets herself in the funniest situations. I appreciated she was an older main character who still has lots of life to live and wants to make herself happy, despite what her family thinks. Evie was also on her own journey after her husband and son both die young. She’s had a hard life and she’s trying to reconnect with her young grandson. These women had real life problems that they had to deal with and they did so with grace and a lot of wine.

Favorite book of 2024 I flew through this book, and already miss the characters. I hope the author writes a second book!The book was inspiring, sweet, and hilarious! I was laughing out loud the entire read.

Because life can begin at 60! This is such a fantastic idea for a novel! In a world where every female protagonist is a brilliant but tortured professional in their 30s, FINALLY comes a story about a 63 year-old woman who decides to let go of the comfortable life she hates to chase the life of her dreams. It’s emotional, satisfying and FUNNY. The perfect beach read, or rainy afternoon novel. And one that left me wanting my own Second Act. If you liked the show Sex and the City – if you want to laugh and be INSPIRED this is the book for you!

Great Recommendation! I got an email from Goodreads recommending this book. I read the reviews and almost everyone loved it, so I downloaded the sample. The book engaged me from the first chapter – I was cracking up reading the sample. I was immediately interested in the characters. I bought the book. Sylvia is a great character, smart, funny. She has her heart in the right place, but she makes mistakes. I loved all of the characters in the book – each seemed like a unique, real person. I was laughing all the way through the book. I hope when I’m Sylvia’s age I have her gumption.

Delightful and clever romp Humor, heart, and clever twists

Loved it! This was an incredible debut, such a refreshing fun story and I loved it! I hope Sylvia’s story continues because she is too amazing of a character to just end with one book! I want a Sylvia in my life! Thanks for a wonderful book!

Very funny with important message Front-runner for favorite book of 2024. I expected it to be feel-good and emotional (which it was), but it’s also SO. FUNNY. Can’t remember the last time a novel routinely made me laugh out loud. But more than that, it made me really hopeful. Who doesn’t want to be reminded that you’re never too old to reinvent yourself? Sylvia’s a great character, and I was rooting for her at every turn. Already recommended this to both my parents. Definitely think it could be the book of the spring/summer!

Funny and enjoyable I totally enjoyed this comic novel starring Sylvia, a 63 year old woman starting over. Sylvia is shocked when she finds her husband naked and straddled by a friend in their Boca condo. Sylvia decides to follow her dream to move to Manhattan and become the wedding planner she once was and restart her life. The secondary characters include an engaged couple, Sylvia’s daughter, but most importantly, her best friend Evie who moves to Manhattan with her. I recommend this book for a light, positive experience.

Hilarious and fun story I loved the book’s premise of two elderly friends taking on Manhattan in their later years after Sylvia leaves behind her cheating husband and Evie starts a new chapter. The two friends head to Manhattan after leaving behind a boring life in a Florida retirement community. The characters are fun and the story line is laugh out loud funny. Highly recommend this book!