This Was Not the Plan (Alger) - Book Reviews

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[Alter's] novel of love, loss, and parenthood is readable and relatable. [Although] the story becomes overly sentimental...[its] sweetness isn’t always to its detriment...; Charlie’s growing relationship with Caleb is uplifting and memorable.
Publishers Weekly


[An] ensuing lapse in judgment leaves Charlie a full-time dad and unemployed attorney.... Alger's darkly comic novel offers an engaging take on single parenthood from a man's viewpoint. —Robin Nesbitt, Columbus Metropolitan Lib., OH
Library Journal


A big, heartfelt book that reads like your favorite sitcom....Charlie’s evolution to a secure, confident, stay-at-home dad is wonderfully satisfying, and he is as relatable as Will Freeman in Nick Hornby’s About a Boy.
BookPage


Alger...makes Charlie fairly three dimensional.... To her credit, Alger...leaves some of the resolution up to the reader's imagination. But she doesn't really offer anything new. Working night and day isn't as fulfilling as being with family; readers may wonder why Charlie doesn't already know that.
Kirkus Reviews