SYNOPSIS
You think you’ve got it bad? I lost my memory, I’m so single I’ve basically got an allergy to men, and my own cat despises me.
‘Lucy! If you can hear me, squeeze my hand!’
That’s the first thing I hear when I wake up in hospital. Then my sister drops a bombshell: I’ve been in a coma.
It gets worse. In my head, it’s 2009 and I’m seventeen. Somehow, I need to remember the last decade…
Plan A: Track down my exes. Highlights include a one-night stand with someone in a Batman costume, and balcony sex that gave the neighbours a nervous breakdown.
Plan B: Get flirty. Lowlights include a fling with someone hairier than a yeti.
Plan C: Figure out why I have more exes than underwear. Am I allergic to men?
As I piece together my past, I find a mysterious note: Oscar, 9th February. Determined to work out what it means, I uncover a secret I’ve been hiding from everyone.
When the truth comes out, will my memory return? Will I get my life back? And will I ever find the cure to my singledom?
Title: Am I allergic to men?
Author: Kristen Bailey
Series: The Callaghan Sisters #5
Publisher: Bookouture
Publication date: February 3, 2022
Mother-of-four, gin-drinker, binge-watcher, receipt hoarder, enthusiastic but terrible cook. Kristen also writes. She has had short fiction published in several publications including Mslexia & Riptide. Her first two novels, Souper Mum and Second Helpings were published in 2016. In 2019, she was long listed in the Comedy Women in Print Prize and has since joined the Bookouture family. She writes women's fiction and she hopes her novels have fresh and funny things to say about modern life, love and family.
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REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When Am I Allergic To Men? was announced I had mixed feeling about reading it. On the one hand I was dying to read Lucy’s story as she’s one of my favorite Callaghans, but on the other reading it would mean saying goodbye to the Callaghan family and I didn’t know if I was ready for that. They have accompanied me for the last couple of years. I’ve laughed with them, I’ve cried with them, and they’ve become one of my favorite fiction families ever to the point of feeling like real people, so saying goodbye was HARD!
Am I Allergic To Men? encompasses all the things that made me fall in love with this series.
Lucy, the youngest Callaghan, has lost her memory of the last ten years after an encounter with a bus while dressed as Elsa. Her memory got frozen at 17 (see what I did there? Pure genius!), so with the help of her sisters she’ll try to get her memories and her old life back.
Right from the first book, Lucy became one of my favorite characters in the series. She’s unapologetic, funny, honest, no nonsense…Yes, she might use sometimes crass language (love it) and knows more words for genitalia than I thought humanly possible (loved it even more. It’s always good to expand your vocabulary!), but do you know what she has buckets of? Heart. She has a huge heart, especially when she interacts with kids or right at the end (no spoilers here!).
The accident has made her lose sense of who she was, but with the help of her family, whom will leave everything in their lives to help her, she will embark on a self-knowledge journey that made me laugh so hard at times and sob so much at others. That last conversation with her mum was lovely and everyone should have one like that with their parents.
I’ve read some reviews complaining this was not a romance and Lucy had not a romantic interest, but there’s more love in here that in many toxic romance stories. To those people Lucy would say she doesn’t need a man (or woman) in her life to feel fulfilled and to go f*ck themselves! She might be single but she’s definitely not alone.
It is with a heavy heart I say goodbye to the Callaghans but Am I Allergic To Men? was the perfect closing to their story.
Meg, Emma, Beth, Grace and Lucy, from now on , you are MY BEST BITCHES.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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