Adult Book Review: Yesteryear

Yesteryear

Caro Claire Burke

Natalie Heller Mills has built an empire on the backs of her millions of social media followers entranced by her pioneer lifestyle. From the big family farm to the raw milk and the handsome cowboy husband, her followers are hooked onto her every word. So, there are a couple of nannies rearing the children and a producer running things behind the scenes? What her followers don’t know won’t hurt them (or her growing empire). Natalie has a perfect, pioneer life, or at least it appears that way on camera.

It all comes crashing down around her when she wakes up one morning in a house identical to hers, with a family identical to hers, but something is definitely wrong. Her perfect farmhouse with all the comforts of modernity is gone, replaced by something right out of Little House on the Prairie. Has she been abducted … thrown onto a reality TV show that the folks back home are getting a laugh out of? All Natalie knows is this is not the beautiful life she’s accustomed to, and she needs to find a way back home.

I went into this book thinking I had everything figured out, but I was entirely wrong! Just when I thought I knew what was going to happen, there was another twist thrown at me. Following Natalie from her college years to her life as a 30-something-year-old mother of soon to be six, was at times exciting, but also deeply unsettling. You’ll love her and then you’ll hate her.

Yesteryear is a gripping satire on the ideals of womanhood and motherhood in America. With the constant use of social media today, and the ‘influencers’ that have received fame from recording every minute of every day, this book is far from a comfortable escape from reality.

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