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If you would have told me one of my first reads of 2025 would be a 600 pager, I would have probably thought you were on crack. I mean not even (a) the power of Oprah or (b) receiving a free paperback copy for review had convinced me to so far. Behold the influence of . . . .



And my obsession with obtaining a new free coffee mug every year. Per the image snipped above, this year’s recommendations all center around “art�� somehow �� in this case an artist being one of the main characters.

While my Roman Empire truly remains that nearly every book’s tale to be told can be done so within 350 pages (still true here, even though eventually all the little blippy timehops did come together to make sense and complete the big picture), I still was able to gobble this sucker up in two days. Good news for the Oprah Book Club haters is this is a smarty and not nearly as tragiporn as most of her offerings (Oprah Book Club lovers, back off �� I’m one of you and drink that tragic Kool-Aid mix down by the gallon).

At its heart Wellness is the story of a marriage. However, it is also about oligarchs and algorithms and conspiracy theories and manifesting and gray rocks and hot button topics that makes it so very NOW . . . in the best way possible �� yet it is a book that I can’t imagine not standing the test of time and being just as memorable 20 or 50 years from now.

Simply put, it is brilliant. Thank you library for helping me finally remove this from my overflowing book cart of TBR options. I have really been missing out.

4.5 Stars