The Golden Years Glitch by Judy Smith ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

The Golden Years Glitch follows 70-year-old firecracker Andi Parker, a successful businesswoman, devoted mother and so-fun grandmother. She is also looking forward to her golden years with her sexy silver fox husband, Jed.

Until...

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May 2025; Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing; 978-1954332621
ebook, print (294 pages); women's fiction

I always enjoy reading books with strong female characters, but this one was much more enjoyable for me because the main character is a feisty 70-year-old.  This book shows that it isn't just the 30-year-olds who have problems with marriage, sex, and friendship.  Andi has always known that she was a strong woman, but it took a major blow-up in her marriage to learn how strong she really was and how she could find happiness on her own with the help of her friends.

Andi is about to celebrate her 70th birthday.  She has one daughter and two sons with her first husband.  After he died, she started her own successful business and has recently retired and started an upscale consignment shop with two friends.  She's madly in love with her husband of 25 years, and they are getting ready to go to Europe to take a riverboat cruise when life suddenly changes.  Jed thought he was privately texting another woman, but he put the text on Facebook where everyone could - and did - see it.  When she confronts him, he claims that it was just a friendship (even though the texts were much racier than friendship), and she wanted to believe him, even though her family and friends want her to kick him out of their house.  She has to do a lot of soul searching and a little detective work before she decides that she has to do what makes her happy despite her friends' advice.  While she is considering making changes in her life, she realizes that she is a strong person and can have a fun and productive life on her own.  Will Andi decide to kick Jed out or stay in the marriage and forgive him?

I really liked Andi as a main character.  As she began to change, she tried lots of new things with her daughters and granddaughters -- from a mud-filled obstacle course to a deep-sea fishing trip that made all of them seasick.  Her granddaughter even had a sweatshirt made for her that said Best Effin' Grandma to celebrate all of the changes that Andi was going through.

This book was an emotional book, looking at an older woman who has to decide who she is and that she DOES deserve happiness on her own.  Plus, it's a laugh-out-loud book.  Andi's friends care about her deeply, but they also make her laugh.  Their discussion when they went lingerie shopping was hilarious.  Overall, this was a fun book to read, watching a 70-year-old woman reclaim her strength and happiness in life.

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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west.  She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.   

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