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I liked how she gains confidence while helping other women find happiness with their partners. She’s lonely, and I couldn’t wait for her to find a backbone and claim the life she’s entitled to. Romantically, she has wasted too much time and energy in encouraging loser ex-boyfriends to reach their potential only for them to finally turn into successful husband material for other lucky women. Her relationship with her parents is tumultuous. She is overworked and overlooked professionally. I enjoyed it.Īly is taken for granted in every aspect of her life. It is, however, an entertaining work of women’s fiction featuring winsome characters and an original premise. There’s only the slightest bit of romance, and while lighthearted, it isn’t particularly funny. The Fixer Upper is billed as a romantic comedy, but I disagree. As Aly tackles her biggest “fixer upper” yet, she’ll have to come to terms with their complicated history and figure out how much to change someone she’d always thought was perfect as he is…

There’s just one catch – he’s also Aly’s childhood best friend and first love. Before long, a high-profile Instagram star hires them to fix-up her app developer boyfriend. Using little tricks and tips, Aly and her friends get the men to do the work themselves – to get out of the job they hate, sign up for that growth seminar, to do more parenting. So, Aly decides to put her talents to good use and, alongside two work friends, sets up The Fixer Upper, an exclusive, underground service for women who are tired of unpaid emotional labor. After a chance meeting with an ex who has gone from a living in his parents’ basement to a married project manager in three years, she realizes she’s been fixing her boyfriends, too… In this funny and sharp romantic comedy, a woman with a knack for turning her boyfriends’ lives around starts a professional service to help wrangle men, only to be unexpectedly matched with an old flame.Įver since she can remember, Aly has been fixing everything around her: her parents’ marriage, her colleagues’ work problems, and her friends’ love lives.