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My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.
Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.
A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Where do I even begin with this review.1. The Writing: Her writing style was so captivating and unique we couldn’t stop listening/reading. What a way to narrate the thoughts of an anti hero character. A “good Christian woman”. 2. The plot: I swear I guessed like 15 different ways the book was going to end, and the explanation for her being in 1855 and in honesty, I did not expect the way it all wrapped up. There isn’t one solid reason why and how, it is so layered, so many discussions of reasoning. You get so lost and confused with everything because Natalie herself is so lost in herself and her narcissistic self. I feel like the reasoning was right in front of me from the beginning but I was so caught up with the internal dialogue of the main character I wasn’t thinking properly. 3. Overall: this book is the best trad wife book I have read so far. It is absolutely astonishing this is a debut novel. The writing, my god, I still can’t get over how well this book is written. It wasn’t too short or too long. The repeated words, the internal reasoning, the anger my god. Amazing. I will absolutely be looking forward to more books by this author. I have so many more words and notes that I WILL be re-reading this in physical form. Also, the narrator is absolutely astonishing. Even if you don’t like audiobooks, my god she can really pull you in.
The first 100 pages of this book will have you questioning why everybody is picking it up. If you keep going, you will find the plot is so unsettling that you have more questions than answers. You never get comfortable with the confusing dissonance, but you will keep turning the pages. I’ll give it 4 starts for offering something different.
