It’s the influencer’s golden rule: know your niche. Kit Kidding has found hers on Instagram, where she gets paid to promote brands and share expertly curated posts about her fun, fabulous, child-free life. Kit likes kids just fine, but she passionately believes that women who choose not to become mothers shouldn’t have to face guilt. Or judgement. Or really hot chefs who turn out to be single dads.
Will MacGregor is aggravating, sexy, persistent, averse to social media, and definitely a bad idea. As soon as Kit learns his parenting status, she vows to put their scorching one-night stand behind her and move on. But Will and Kit are thrown together on an Instagram campaign, and the more time she spends with him—and his whip-smart, eight-year-old daughter, Addie—the more difficult it is to stay away, much less sustain what Will so cleverly calls her “Resting Beach Face.” Kit’s picture-perfect career path is suddenly clashing with the possibility of a different future—messy, complicated, and real. Which life does she truly want? Will she have to re-invent herself? And will love still be waiting by the time she figures it out?
Told through the lens of an Instagram influencer, Guertin's Instamom is a compelling look at modern relationships, perceptions, and the pressures women face with societal expectations. Kit Kidding is proudly kid-free and has made it her brand—she has created an envious career out of her unapologetic choice to not have children. But what happens when she's met the ultimate #dealbreaker?
At first Will is charming, wickedly sexy, and worth taking a chance on. But as the story progresses, he puts Kit into situations that are either unfair—in that she's set up to fail—or that are just plain awful. My only criticism is that the chemistry isn't quite to the level where it's believable that they would want to work on their relationship.
That being said, Guertin is a wonderful writer—there are some truly beautiful passages where Kit is reminiscing about her mom and when she explores Kit's vulnerability with her secret bookstagrammer account. Also effective was the reminder of the pitfalls of social media and how life is curated to be envied.
Funny, flirty, and emotional, Instamom is a perfect summer escape.
CHANTEL GUERTIN is a Toronto‑based beauty expert and television personality, well-known to audiences of Canada’s number‑one daytime talk show, The Marilyn Denis Show, and a frequent guest of morning news shows. Previously, she worked as a beauty editor at fashion magazines.
Guertin lives in Toronto with her family.
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