Nikki Grey’s idea of living dangerously is not wearing a seatbelt, yet calamity always seems to find her.Friends Who Move Couches is a laugh-out-loud story about life, friendship, quieting your inner critic, and surviving rejection. Married to a workaholic, mothering three rebellious kids, and feuding with neighborhood friends, Nikki Grey forgets her problems one afternoon by smoking marijuana. … problems one afternoon by smoking marijuana. That blunder ignites a lifelong yet dormant medical condition, and she loses her driver’s license. Suddenly stranded in her home, she’s forced to stare out the window at the women who have ostracized her.
Her true friends encourage her to concentrate on her health, but Nikki is her own nemesis. She embarks on a scheme to win back neighborhood friends but instead becomes the butt of their jokes. Her ache to mend her broken relationships escalates.
Not until her two-timing husband asks her a question that catapults her frivolous suburban life into a tailspin, is she forced to stop reaching for others and stand on her own.
If you like novels like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman and Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty, you’ll love Nikki Grey’s hilarious journey in Friends Who Move Couches.
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Fantastic read recommended by a couple of book friends!
This was a semi-autobiography and will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. I loved this wonderfully eclectic set of characters, they all added a little bit more into the mix. Everyone needs friends like this!
In the end I loved how we got a glimpse into what was real and what was fiction!
Great read! It started off a little slow but then picked up and I really enjoyed it. This book is filled with fantastic characters and all the feels.
This story is very relatable to ones own life in so many ways. We all have struggles; some bigger than others.
We have insecurities, drama and the question of who is a true friend in this world.
The author does a great job in creating an original story. There is humor and heart in this story
To begin with, I didn’t know if I was going to like this book. I saw Nikki as being whiny and needy and Mark as a total jerk. But once things started to happen and she took over her life, I enjoyed it much more. It seemed like the whole mood and flow off the book rubbed me better. I was pleased with how it all played out overall
I really liked this story.
Nikki Grey surrounded herself with friends because of a lack of family. Until a health crisis had what she seemed as a happy marriage to Mark. After experiencing a seizure and a hospital stay, she founds bits and pieces of her nicely woven life unfurling. Out of all this, she becomes stronger and independent and evaluates her relationships and friendships. She finds out which friends will move couches and who will move bodies.
This story made me cry and laugh out loud. I enjoyed it from beginning to end.
I wanted to love this book but unfortunately I didn’t. It was a very slow start for me. I had a lot of trouble keeping up with who was who of the friends.
The pacing seemed off—slow in some places, too fast in others. I found myself skimming in a few places.
As a reader, I also had a hard time connecting with Nikki.
This is the funniest heartwarming book I have read in a long time! Nikki’s life is a mess, she makes her children mad, her husband disappointed and she has an obsession with never losing friends. The situations she gets herself into are hysterical but underneath it all her friendships are mostly solid but her obsession with the friends who aren’t solid makes for a great story.
This book started out a little slow, but it made up for it. I wasn’t sure how I felt about Nicole. I loved her tried and true friends, especially Evy! Once Nicole started standing up for herself, I liked her alot more. I enjoyed reading about the things she and her friends got up to, but I think the parade was my absolute favorite part of the entire book. This was a good light read that made me laugh!
I loved this book! I read it in one day because I couldn’t wait to find out what happened to Nikki. It’s a real page turner, with rich characters. I liked the combination of comedy and drama. The story questions who we are and who we want to be.
This book was a great read. It went so quickly as I didn’t want to put it down. The story line is so realistic and I could vision the entire story with the characters the whole way through. It really gives a point of view of how friendships go sometimes. And it really tells the story on how friendships should be. It was easy to follow along in the book as sometimes in books when they jump around I can’t stay focused on the book and this book was not like that. Definitely easy book to finish in a weekend. I received an advance copy from the author for an honest review.
Want a good laugh and a book you have to finish? This is the book! I never laughed out loud so much reading a book. It was to the point my husband was asking me to quiet down! I could relate to the incidents in this that caused me to laugh so much. Then the book gets a bit serious when you wonder if the main character can really pull off her plan to change her life.
This is the best book yet written by this author. I think that is because she is dealing with almost real life and you can’t make that stuff up. The author has a funny way to tell the story that just makes you endear yourself to the main character. You are actually inside her head and you wonder how much is real life or not.
When you finish a book and you remember the story line, I find it is a good read. It is well written with the twists and turns that I didn’t figure out until it was revealed in the book. I just didn’t see them coming. Love this book!
I received a free copy of this book from the author for an honest opinion. Writing a review was easy because the book is that good!
Friends Who Move Couches is a fun read. It is highly entertaining while at the same time has the reader thinking about deep and true friendships that nourish us versus those best left behind. C.J. Zahner masterfully weaves in important aspects her life journey into this book. You are taken on a roller coaster ride of emotions from laughing out loud (often), to feeling anxious and concerned, to being close to tears, to anger, to cheering wildly for a certain outcome.
Such an easy read and very comparable to life if you have raised children. As a mother, it’s very common to forge friendships with other moms. Everyone can say they have had a friend to match one or two in this book. Some of their antics can also hit home! Want to read a book that has a lot of laughs and a few tears, this is it! You won’t be sorry!