"why must people take what does not belong to them? why must they take what's hers and ruin it?" 

pub
: 2021
pgs306
read/heard: 11/2-8/2021
book: 31 in 2021


THOUGHTS 
Ooooh this one was a doozy. 
This one was just like her second book only just not as titillating (I just googled what that word means to make sure and lol. I don't mean it in the literal sense but the word just fits. 😅)
....anyway, this one was good. 
Until I looked up spoilers and I think it both deflated me but somehow pumped me up to continue reading. I think it deflated me because the spoiler is simple. Who is the killer? But the story packs so. much. more. so I was like okay wtf u mean das it?
essentially it's the same as her second book: murder, find the killer but every character had issues so there was a lot more and of course they're all connected...

I think knowing helped me because I was paying attention to the story and I was trying to see where I could see clues. But I think knowing also wasn't a good idea because after finding out the killer I was like eh. 

-----

this is part of the cleaning house series (me finally posting all my shit no matter what it looks like) so thats all there is but jump over for spoilers! 
thanks for accepting any and all of my typos and knowing what i meant. 
i <3 u!


"not speaking to you was never about punishing you. it actually wasnt about you at all. i needed the space." 

pub: 2021
pages: 381
read: 7/8-12/2021
book: 24 in 2021


THOUGHTS
OMG I LOVED THIS BOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and then it happened. 

trigger warnings: 
-sexual assault
-alcohol abuse
-drug abuse
-probably a lot more that i am missing. 

okay, okay. 

so i scored a skip the line ecopy from my library and i started it expecting not to really care for it because i liked her first, i cant recall her second right now, oh yeah, grandma wanted dick and so i just wasnt really expecting much from this one BUT OMG I LOVED IT! as soon as i started reading it i kept making annotations all over the ecopy thinking "well at least goodreads will have my notes." but who i am as a person didnt let myself. i wanted an actual copy then and there not once I was done like I usually do.

so i got my copy. 

and i love the way it looks now that its over. 
(i need to go back and add all the annotations I'd made before i got the book). 

anyway!, this one started so goood!
it was highlarious!
we go back and forth between how they all met (Dylan, Marcus & Addie) in the past and how now they're all stuck going to Cherry's wedding (all of them plus Deb (Ads sis) & Rodney (C's coworker). 
and it was all very full circle because it starts light and fluffy but then we start going back and we start seeing where it goes wrong and then 💥! the past collides with the present and the truth comes out and ahh!!! and the story just, to me, so very neatly wrapped itself full circle. we get from A-Z in a woven pattern that I wasnt really paying attention as it was being laid out for me, lol but that I truly in the end did end up appreciating.

....so it starts light but it ends up being pretty heavy-ish.
AND it plays the usual trope that i fucking hate. The one where, had they juuuuust communicated, maybe a lot of things could've been avoided. of course not, rarely that easy. 
BUT! all the other stuff in between was so goood that I can't help but love this entire story. I found myself laughing a lot and thinking how can this entire lot get into this much shit!😂 and OMG! THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE BEST BOOK OF ALL THAT O'LEARY'S EVER WRITTEN! 

I guess what bothers me is that it starts so light and we get a tiny hint but I didn't see it. and in the end I feel like all the characters had a lot more depth to them, which great! But I feel like others left a little bit too much of an open window.
mostly Addie & Marcus.
A because i feel like she was written to go on this amazing transformational discovery/ self journey and then she proceeds to doubt it almost the entire book. is that an effect to what happened? had what happened not happened would her attitude be different? Bc Dylan doubted himself the entire book but I'm not left wondering how his life is going after the book ended. Ya know what I'm saying?
and Marcus.
oooof. After it was all said and done, I believe he got off a bit easy. I hate that it was "justified" that he didn't see it because they'd turned a corner. no. I also don't think it was love. definitely an infatuation. simply over the fact that Dylan had what he never had a chance of getting in the first place; Addie. 

I think thats what it was. In the end, these 2 have heavy plots in the story and I feel like they weren't adequately resolved in the end. the ending would have been fine if the journey wouldn't have been so heavy. vice versa. 

I still really do like this story and I'm so glad that I read it. I'm even more glad that I bought my own copy. And I reaaaaallllly do hope I get to re read this one sometime in the near future because I did have a good time. 

I guess what I'm tryina say is that my own personal views ain't stopping me from loving this one at all so I guess that's a good thing, no?

Ahh!




S P O I L E R S 

lmao. i didnt do them on time so there are none because i kinda remember but not enough to attempt to try. however i did like this book so i might reread and do a proper one there. sorry! but if ya got questions, ask. i might now. (i wont. but maybe if you jog my memory a bit?) 


<3

"as someone who was bullied growing up, I realized that it's way easier to play into the bullying rather than fight it. If you're better at making fun of yourself than a bully is, then a bully has no room to operate."

published: 2020
pages: 317
read/heard11/22-25/2020
book: 93 in 2020 (WTF!!!!!)

"You need to say what you're thinking a lot more and not be afraid of being judged or being inarticulate or offensive or even boring."


THOUGHTS
I LOVE audiobooks but hate the idea of owning them. because realistically, I know who I am and I know im not going to listen to them ever again (example: anxious people. liked it, doubt I'll reread/relisten to it.) 
which is odd because when it comes to TV, I am in a season in my life where I like what I like and its SUPER rare that I watch something new. so if I like something, I watch it once and then listen to it several times.....which is why I can kinda quote you Friday After Next pretty fucking good. 

why is it that the idea of owning the audio of a book ×P but the idea of owning a copy of a movie that i can listen to over and over and over is ÷>  ?
I'm not sure. 
maybe I just haven't found THEE audiobook that makes me 😍😍😍.

Well, ladies and germs, I think i just found THE ONE!!!
I want to own this audiobook and listen to it over and over again so much that I can give you counts about this book in regards to the many times he shits his pants to the many girlfriends whose names he actually uses (im using this as an example cus he says he has no game but I mean, look who he's married to!!!!) to just about A N Y T H I N G. 
I want to listen to it so much that I can recite or reference you any chapter with ease, without thinking about it. just like if I was giving you directions to the local *insert your store here*.

I LOVED THIS (AUDIO) BOOK!!!!

I'm hoping to buy an actual copy AND the audio version. 
and just listen along over and over until I can't no more. 
(my brother kindly gifted me a copy and im working my way up to the audio lol) 

....which is weird because I don't really care about SNL. like I used to watch it but it wasn't anything that I'd stay up for or make sure i was seated to see. but the reason I picked it up was because Bree kept talking about how good it was so I put both audio and ebook on hold and on and behold they both kicked in at the same time. 
I decided to jump in expecting nothing, was pleasantly surprised and ended up loving it. Im so glad I read/heard this!

I thought this book was pretty funny. 

I loved the chapters: 
-why I love my mom. spoiler: it involves 911 and I cried.
-oops, I fell asleep in a graveyard: because it involves sleep and....of course. 
-okay, so maybe i've shit my pants a couple of times: besides the fact that it was funny, ill never tell you why. Lol
-the chapter about alcohol and drugs: lmaoooo. especially the story about edibles towards the end. GO PARENTS. Lmaooooo
-the time I fought in WrestleMania: just the adrenaline he was going thru made me happy for him.
-eggs in my leg: I didn't necessarily love it but it was kinda lol and if nothing else, pretty informative.

anyway. I could keep going on forever on why I really liked this read but I didn't really annotate anything and well, I dont wana bore ya, so ill leave ya here. 

no spoilers cus what would I spoil? ....but maybe when I reread it ill do a spoiler of each chapter where I just talk about what they're about and then yea. Lol.

go pick it up!
Scarlett Johansson, you are a lucky woman!


"they pretend they tell each other everything. but its not true. nobody tells anybody everything."

pub: 2021
pages: 349
read: 8/7-14/2021
book: 27 in 2021


THOUGHTS
ahhh!
shari KNOWS how to take you on a ride doesn't she?

at the rate im going, this probably wont see the light of say until the end of the year if im lucky? next, if im honest? 

anyway, ill make this quick.

yes this one fucked me up. 
the ride was !!!!!
i GENUINELY had no idea who the killer was. i had SO MANY theories and NONE revolved around the killer. well, 1 did but it was...not anywhere near what i was thinking lol. 

overall, i did like the story but in the end, not even that epilogue could make me love this story as much as i have loved all her others. Shari is THE QUEEN, at least i think, at epilogues. no matter which way your mind wanders after she's done with the story, you still get your own good conclusion. i feel like the epilogue here is a final one. like IF it happens, you know whats gon' happen. 
not only that but, and this maybe a bit spoilery, i have seen this ending already once before. and for me personally, that one was done better. idunno. 

also, i feel like for as hard as Reyes was like tryina ride this cases' ass, when he finally hits the jackpot, he just says fuck it. 

this one feels a little lazy? i love Shari but this is probably my 2nd least fave books of hers. its not bad, it just isn't a fave of mine like others have been. 

------

im cleaning house so thats where the goodies end. 
it has been almost a year since i read this book but i still stand by it being my second least favorite. it just felt idk. this one wasnt for me but its not at all bad ive just seen it already before. if i remove that from the equation i still dont know how i would feel? eh, anyway.... 

anyway, i didnt do spoilers because im me but i did attach some notes so ill include those after. 

thanks for sticking around!

published: 2018
pages: 310
ISBN: 9780399587665
read: 3/22-28/2018
rating: cute read but UGH
book: 9 of 12 (secretly aiming for 52 but happy with 30) of 2018



MY THOUGHTS
short version: 
cute, quick-ish read. definitely for those who LOVE love stories! 

"long version": 
let's take a moment to mourn blogging for books. 
....
they shut down because idk why and while i was only able to use them once (because i refuse to read the book i got from them) it still sucks cause i was hoping to eventually get to it and in turn get more free books.

anyway, they introduced me to another site that i wont bother mentioning because YOU HAVE TO JUMP ON 1 LEG FOR 3 HOURS WHILE YOU STAND ON YOUR HAND to download a freaking book! (U G H !!!!) and basically its a mess BUT i did read an excerpt of this book there and i was HOOKED RIGHT AWAY!!!!
so i checked this book out at the library, considered buying it for my nook (glad i didn't) and then i just sucked it up and waited. 

and then i get it and i was like OMG I LOVE THIS!!!!!....and then i was over it. 
but let me tell you why...

I LOVED this story. it was super cute and i loved it because I'm a sucker for love stories. especially those that end good but for a good portion of this, all it is or was, was the miscommunication. 
like they both wanted the same thing but they wouldn't talk about it. they just decided that they knew better and messed it up for each other. 
and while, that's real life, its not (to me) worth a 300 page fight. 

and the thing with her sister: i think it was obviously all on her because her sister didn't really seemed bothered by it. 

and the Drew break up story: its blown way out of proportion. maybe the day he chose was messed up but other than that, kudos to him in my opinion. 

anyway, if you come across this and want something cheesy with lots of lovey feelings, i definitely recommend this book!

as always, spoilers after the jump.

thanks for reading! 

AFTER POST RAMBLE
i read this back in 2018, i wrote this back in 2018 and as you can see above i have not touched it since 2018. i dont know why i didnt publish it i just never did. 
something bit me in the ass today so im cleaning house and posting whatever i can. (i felt myself jinxing myself). 
anyway its 6/22/2022 (WTF! 4 years ago lol *laugh nervously*), ive read several other Guillory books, as a matter of fact all but the last of this series and i refuse to read any others by her. simply bc i cannot stand fucking series books. i hate the waiting. maybe in the future iduno, but i wasnt a fan of the rest of this series because really .... so idk. but yeah. 

i gave this a quick once over. im just out here tryina clean house so sorry for any and all typos. 

thx 4 rdn. 
luv yaH!
-les
(its even got my old signature! *tear*) 


"i dont think i can be your friend anymore.... i cant fight for a part of your life when there are so many other things going on, vying for your attention. it hurts me too much knowing that i am not a priority to you." 

published: 2020
pages: 419
heard: 12/9-11/2020
book: 97 in 2020


THOUGHTS
*i wrote this post back in 2020? i think? idk. still don't care for the book so much so that im too lazy to reread the spoilers so sorry for all of the typos that you might find from here on out.*

first of all! the disrespect to compare this or say this is the other side of Daisy Jones. ugh. 

I thought I had written the post already but I guess not so ill just be quick about it I guess. 

At first, id say that I was like AHHHHH!!! who gives a fuck about this book but I guess now I can say meh, who gives a fuck about this book.
Idk. It was a lot. 
Like toooooo much going on. Literally everyone has drama going on in this story. There's not a single person mentioned who like had a nice dinner and then lived happily ever after. 

Rose was a bitch, Cassidy had underlying issues that were never addressed, poor Alex , Merry, well, ay Merry!...and also can we talk about Merrys daughter! That little bitch! I wanted to smack her. And Merry for allowing her to be such a little twat. And Yumi!, well, idk, I don't really have shit to say about Yumi. 

Idk. I need to stop getting all these kinds of books from BOTM. 
This one for sure is going into a little free library. 

Ima leave it here cus I just don't care. 



SPOILERS
S P O I L E R 
S P O I L E R 
S P O I L E R 
S P O I L E R 
S P O I L E R 
S P O I L E R 


oooh this one is a doozy! 
So...

yes Cassidy does end up committing suicide. while there are a myriad of reasons its not really clear but ultimately, it was depression. 

ill try to do this the best that I can. 

short version: 
Alex gets in a car accident and can no longer walk due to the accident caused by the paps because of the rumor that he supposedly broke Cassidy's arm.  
it was Rose that sold that story to the paps about Alex breaking Cassi's arm even though it was Steven St James. i dont think she knew the real truth but the bitch did it for exposure and money. 

Merry was raped by the director that directed their video for Prime which resulted in a pregnancy. she kept the child and never told the dude nor the public. she was free with her love so she was worried that people were going to tell her that she deserved it for being a "slut".
she also was the one who burned the house down of the dude she was dating. it was an accident but because of the nature of the relationship with the dude and the fact that she had helped break up a marriage, they thought it was the ex wife looking to get revenge. 

Cass joins sing it and makes it to the top 3 when she was 17 but ultimately got second place to Steven St. James. 
she goes back home, is bummed the fuck out, talks to a friend and that friends tells her to stop being stupid and make connections. so she calls the sing it agent but she tells her that at the moment, she cannot help her because how would it look to people if she lost but is still being rewarded and then other non winners will expecting the same thing. 

fast forward i forget how long but she ends up getting a call to meet with the gloss girls; they are looking for a fourth since their fourth has fallen sick. 
she meets with them, Yumi & Merry are okay with her and Rose is a total bitch. 

from here on out ill do it per person because its quicker and im over this book. 

CASSI/ STEVEN ST. JAMES / ALEX
she 's friends with Alex and 2 other girls but you only really see her bonding with Alex. its when he surprises her in new york after a show that she realizes juuuusthow crazy fans can be that she learns that Alex is moving to Pomona  to go to school to be near her. and with that he ends up being her part time security guard until he has back to school. somewhere in there they end up dating and end up being boyfriend and girlfriend. 
all in all Cassi ends up being a bitch to him the whole way through. ever since sing it she's had a crush on Steven St. James, he made a move on her on an award show so of course Alex has every right to be upset. not only that but she had a camera that in it had pictures of her dancing all over St James that she then gives to Alex so he can develop and thats how he learns of the after party. 

oscar season comes around and St James asks her to go with him to the show because he considers him her lucky charm and she talks to alex about it but since he is upset she overreacts and tells St James yes. Alex hangs up on her and doesnt see her until the day of. 
he shows up to her house and talks to her and he tells her that he feels like he is not important to her and that she doesnt make any time for him and she tells him that she is trying to protect him and ultimately tells him that she might not have feelings for him. (OH! before this, those pictures of cassi with st james were sold to the paps. she thinks that it was alex and he swears up and down that it wasnt him but she doesnt believe him. ....it ended up being his roommate who sold the pics.) anyway, so she does that and then boom, St. James shows up. alex, deflated, ends up leaving and lets her know that he is walking away from her. 
the fucked up thing is that after he told her that he feels like she doesnt make time for him, she tells him that the timing is bad and that she needs to leave because someone else is waiting on her. 
so anyway, alex leaves, st james goes up to her and they end up kissing she tells him she needs a bit of time given everything and they get in the limo. 

at the awards, while waiting in the limo to get off, i forget what sets him off but St. James hits her and ends up breaking her arm. 
she's all wtf, he tells the driver to take her to get patched up, she's all wtf and the driver straight up tells her that if she bad mouths st james she's fucked for life. 

she goes to the hospital, gets fixed up, doesnt say shit, blah blah, she avoids him, everything is as good as can be and then alex is in an accident. a tabloid comes out that it was him that broke her arm and so now hes hated and he was at a store with his roommate when they are being chased by paparazzi that they get in a bad accident that ultimately costs alex his ability to ever walk again. 
rumor mills are all happy that it happened to him and cassi never disputed that it wasnt him. it wasnt until after his accident that she did anything but of course by then its too late. it was a close friend that released that information to the paps. 
at first, she thinks that it was whats her face...Lucy and then she thinks that it was Yumi. but then you learn that it was.....

the reason that Cassi ends up leaving the band is because she falls in love with Rose. yea bitchass Rose. 
and Rose reciprocates. Rose was actually in a relationship with Viv, the 4th member who had to drop out, but they called it quits because she got leukemia and told Rose to go do her own thing. 
BUT the thing is Rose doesnt want to take it further. 
after some other award show, they end up going home together and theyre about to hook up and cassi tries to push a relationship but rose tells her ultimately that no. she wont do that with her. 
but what breaks the camels back is that Cassi learns that it was actually Rose that sold the story about Alex to the press. 
she did it for more money and fame. 
she is the reason Alex was so hated and why he now can no longer walk. 
pub: 2022
pages:346
heard: may 2-9, 2011
book: 15 in 2022


THOUGHTS
well it ends stupid because how else could it. but theres something in between the words for me. i love the way you get to see the OTHER side of the story. here we are being like "damn sam." and elli is like "lol. hold my beer." 
bitch don't even drink beer. 

loolololololol

i think what i loved the most was the 2 sides to this story; first sam then elli then part 3. i loooooove, love, looooved seeing the other side of the glass. it was fascinating to me to see how sam felt like her actions affected elli and then we see how elli feels like her actions affected sam. and how sam was all "sam i am and my mom sucks!" and then her mom in the end is all "bitch. i knew" or idk. idk. whatever that was. 

listen im not saying that its the greatest thing ever because these two tricks do some of the dumbest shit ever and get away with it smoother than butta on pancakes but if you ignore the ending, i kinda dig the story. i would have loved like a horror version of this? okay not horror but like if stephen king would pick this book up and stephen king-afy it without giving me lifelong nightmares then id read it. in another universe i feel like this had the potential to be a little bit darker and it could've been amazing! 

anyway, LOL! i had been doing so good with previous reads and like getting the big thing before it was revealed and this one was laid out soooo cleanly and boom. i missed it. bahhahaha. did you see the thing? with the 3 addresses?! (oooh i love how both spoilery and non spoilery that is!). and then what happens with the second address! ahh! it makes sense now!!! and well, the third...lol

THIS WAS AN AWESOME READ!!!!!! 
er, listen to!

this one was definitely all about the journey even though i did want to quit half way because once it ends you're like really? but overall, im glad i stuck this one out. 

i wish i would have taken more detailed notes. 
this story ends a mess but it has lots of good in there. 
fuck it, this book is brought to you by the word juxtaposition.
ahhh!!!!!!



SPOILERS
Sam and elli, twins, were nickelodeon stars and even tho Sam loved it elli hated every second of it. she wished to live more of a normal life. Sam became a party girl.

Part 1 is told thru Sam and she talks about how they blew up and how her life went to shit. 
It's been a year and she hasn't talked to Elli

part 2 is told thru elli and then we learn about the rest of the puzzle pieces and how they fit together. 

in pt 1 Sam goes back home to help their mother with ellis kid since she's been gone at a women's retreat for a while. Sam starts asking, she finds out that Elli is in GenFem em and so she starts to look for her. 

Blah blah blah

Sam finds 3 addresses at ellis house and decides to go loook for her sister at all 3 of the addresses (2 in CA and 1 in AZ) but it turns out they were just "regular" addresses. Sam leaves a note at house 2 but they call her back hysterical asking her to leave them alone.  (once elli's part comes around it makes sense why they called her hysterically telling sam to leave them alone - it was supposed to be a closed adoption).

Anyway -

It turns out elli had wanted to get pregnant but couldn't, she told Sam and Sam instead of being like oh shit me too then, sam decides to tell her sister that she's actually sold her eggs on the shady market where they looked past her addiction. Elli gets mad, sam ends up at a bar, goes back home drunk af and tries to sleep with Ellis husband thinking "this is how ill give my sister a baby!"
elli kicks her out and they don't talk. 

GenFem is like a women's "power movement". They're a cult. They brainwash Elli into thinking they're there for her and they basically convince her to tell Chuck, her husband, that's its her way or the highway; that foo is in Japan. 😂

Anyway, GenFem basically pushes elli to "invest" all of her money in to GenFem, throw her life away and kidnap a kid. Yep, ellis daughter isn't hers. Charlotte is actually Sam's "daughter".

*REWIND* 

the list with 3 addresses that Sam found were the addresses of the donor recipients. some crazy bitch at GenFem convinces elli that in order for her to get over the baby drama sense in a way she needs to go have a look see at all the kids herself. no luck house 1, house 2 they get caught by a teen and in house 3 they see Emma Gonzalez which they then kidnap when grama gets the shits (im not kidding!) and goes to the bathroom leaving her in the yard alone. 

the whole point of GenFem is to get women to commit crimes and then write out confessions of these crimes under the guise that they will feel better once they express their feelings about taking back what's theirs. Dr. Cindy, the one that runs the whole thing, tells them that they need to write their feels to feel better and that they will then have a burning ceremony once they turn in the cards (they also need to do this in order to move to level 8 so everyone in this facility where Sam breaks in to save Elli has committed a crime) except they never ever burn the cards. 

anyway, in the end elli is aware that she is in a cult and we are made to think that sam was the one "manipulating" everything but elli actually had lots of game too. 
they manage to leave the cult facility simply by walking out (because Dr. Cindy was so sure she had her in the palm of her hands). while sam was pretending to be elli, elli went to pack and steal Dr. Cindys laptop along with all of the folders of the women who were there. 

they end up driving to Arizona to return Emma (who went by Charlotte) which sam does by sneaking thru the back, knocking on the door, running away and never getting caught. 

and then yeah 

they end up living together and for the most part sam is now basically taking over elli's flower shop....

.....and das sorta it. 
of course i left a lot out but thats the gist of it!

"it had taken decades for her to understand that loneliness wasnt a lack of people in your life, but a lack of people who knew and understood you." 

pub: 2021
pgs: 361
heard: april 26-30, 2022 
book: 14 in 2022

SYNOPSIS

THOUGHTS
uh. i think i saw this one on IG. idk. but i put the audio on hold, it came in so i dove in. 
i think im laggin on writing these because well, lazy but also, cus idk what to say. 

i mean, i highlighted the shit out of this book (theoretically because this was a library book) but it wasn't like anything moving for me. especially now that a month has passed by since I heard it.

i can understand why homegirl wasnt close to her daughter. i can imagine that its hard to bond when its not something you wanted and then its harder because life. but i think the meh for me lies in the fact that homegirl made it suuuuuuuch a big deal that she left so that she could give xx and xx a chance to (removed bc could be spoilery).
once you get to the end its like okay i get it. makes sense but you want TOO much credit for like doing the bare minimum. or not even that. 
its more so that it felt like, to me, that she wanted to be acknowledged up the butt, to her death, for what she did when she did what she did. well, i mean, you either put up with it or you walk away. especially when nothing else is tethering yall together (kinda hard to get detailed cus spoilers). 

anyway, and then the marriage. 
im not married so i can't comment but i guess, communicate.
and kids are shitheads sometimes. Idk. teens, ya know. 

and martha. 
that was cute i guess. 
idk. 
why can't we have leads who just go on their journey without finding life changing dick after they were hurt by a bad one.  and then homeboy and his life story! 
basically everyone in this book has a sad girl story so if that's not what you're looking for then maybe come back to it later. 

guys - nothing is wrong with this book. nothing.
I just didn't vibe with it. it had a lot of little nuggets and pearls but for me all together at the end: meh.

im okay having heard this but i know i would have been okay never having heard this one. 



SPOILERS

uhm so kathleen was best friends with her homegirl. 
kat starts dating this dude. 
turns out best friend also likes him. 
the best friend and boyfriend sleep together and end up getting pregnant. Kat leaves to give them a chance to either make it or flop on their own without her being in the picture. (in the long run, they do stay together and live a good life til he passes away). 

kat decides to roadtrip route 66 (after her home invasion life changing awakening) and hires martha to drive her even though martha is afraid of driving (of course martha doesn't let that be known til they're in the US. which makes no sense bc wouldn't u wanna like test drive the driver? Anyway....)

marthas beef is that her parents (her mom for sure)  are total turds, her ex mans is a total turd and she cant get a good job to save her life. 
she goes with kat and along the road they pick up Josh? idk. his name starts with a J. his beef is that he's hiking 66 in honor of his brother who committed suicide i believe. he was also kind of a jerk boss who needed to take time off.
of course the girls pick him up and of course him and martha end up well, hooking up but im also going to assume dating. idk bc she is from the UK but hes from US. idk. 

the daughter. Leah? Liza! her and her husband are in a dry spell. shes become someone who does everything for everyone without everyone thinking about how such things get done. 
she never talks to her husband so she goes to stay at her moms while shes on the road trip with martha. because she took a cosmo test that said her relationship is doomed and so she needs time to process but also give everyone the chance to see that she's the HBIC but they need to help out. 
in the end her and her husband end up okay and her kids learn to stop being such twats. she also makes out with that nice rocker dude that lives on or near Kats property. 

in the end, the road trip ends up with Kat meeting her ex best friend in her home in santa monica with each of their perspective daughters (by this point liza and kat are closer and liza flew down to be there with her mother at this moment.) and then its up to them to play catch up. 

as always, there's more but thats all i got.

thanks for reading!