Phoenix77's Reviews > GAGA

I’m not sure if the title or cover of this book does it any favors. The description is what pushed me into giving it a chance.

For women like me pushing into their 40’s, GAGA captures a little bit of what we all might be feeling as we age. Seeing those crazy teenage years through our children’s struggles as well as looking back at our own choices since that age can be a thoughtful moment. The story became fantasy fulfillment through the eyes of a main character I could see myself in. Fortunately I haven’t been through the divorce side of things, but there is that small sense of complacency that comes with a long term relationship. So many of us have that dream of “What if…” in the back of their minds and it’s fun how the author put it into a setting (rock and roll!) we all can relate to. Monty taking that risk and doing something so against her type is the kind of thing I wish I had the courage to achieve in real life (but on a much smaller scale!). I loved Monty’s growth as a woman and as an individual throughout the story. She starts off jaded, comes to embrace the fantasy and then slowly begins to see the reality of it all. In that journey she learns how to judge herself not against her role as Wife/Mother but for the choices she’s made to get to where she is. Her final decision to live her life for herself was a wonderful happy ending that I could imagine will include other people she’s met along the way.