YA Buddy Readers' Corner ♥ discussion

New Year’s Resolution:
Have a baby
Preferably with Josh Lewenthal

Meet Gemma Jacobs. She’s driven, energetic, and a positive thinker. She has a great career working for famed self-help guru Ian Fortune, she lives in a cute studio apartment in Manhattan, and her family is supportive and loving (albeit a little kooky). Her life is perfect. Absolutely wonderful.
Except for one tiny little thing.
After a decade of disastrous relationships and an infertility diagnosis, Gemma doesn’t want a Mr. Right (or even a Mr. Right Now), she just wants a baby.
And all she needs is an egg, some sperm, and IVF.
So Gemma makes a New Year’s resolution: have a baby.
Josh Lewenthal is a laid back, relaxed, find-the-humor-in-life kind of guy. The polar opposite of Gemma. He’s also her brother’s best friend. For the past twenty years Josh has attended every Jacobs’ family birthday, holiday, and event – he’s always around.
Gemma knows him. He’s nice (enough), he’s funny (-ish), he’s healthy (she thinks) and he didn’t burn any ants with a magnifying glass as a kid. Which, in Gemma’s mind, makes him the perfect option for a sperm donor.
So Gemma wants to make a deal. An unemotional, businesslike arrangement. No commitments, just a baby.
To Gemma’s surprise, Josh agrees.
They have nothing in common, except their agreement to make a baby and their desire to keep things businesslike.
But the thing about baby-making…it’s hard to keep it businesslike, it’s nearly impossible to keep it unemotional, and it’s definitely impossible to keep your heart out of the mix. Because when you’re making a baby together, things have a way of starting to feel like you’re making other things too – like a life, and a family, and love. And when the baby-making ends, you wish that everything else didn’t have to end too.

Might be a little late starting this one as i'm a bit behind with my current BRs but i'll try aim to start it by the 26th/27th :)

Okay no worries

Ch 1-11 (view spoiler)[ I wish Gemma would stand up to her mom. It really gets under my skin when parents treat their kids like crap and the kids just take it because that's how it's always been.

I think Gemma could have asked Josh in a much nicer way and she's lucky he changed his mind. And I think Ian is very shady (hide spoiler)]

Ch 12-19 (view spoiler)[ I don't really like Gemma. She called Josh a house plant which is pretty mean and clearly hurt his feelings. And belittled his profession by thinking he wasn't good and had to move in with his dad because he has no money.

She's in her mid thirties, yet did no research into IVF and thought after 30 days she'd be done and she was better than the other women in the support group.

And she still doesn't see that Ian isn't for her, whether he's genuine or not. I honestly think Josh could do better (hide spoiler)]

Ch 20-25 (view spoiler)[ I do feel very bad for Gemma that the pregnancy wasn't viable and that Ian was cheating. Those things really suck and I can't imagine the emotional pain of losing the embryo.

She was terrible to Josh and her support group though and I still dislike her. I don't know why she's so mean to Josh over and over and at this point, I can't root for them to get together. (hide spoiler)]

Ch 26-End (view spoiler)[ Now I feel bad for Josh that he heard Gemma say those mean things years ago. Clearly this book wasn't for me lol

I hope Ian lost all his followers after stealing from Josh, what a scumbag.

It's cute they had a baby I guess. I'm just glad it's over (hide spoiler)]

Sorry i didn't get a chance to read this book this month! I got into a reading slump and got a bit behind 🙈 After seeing what you rated it i'm not that excited about it anymore 🥴😬

Caitlin wrote: "Sorry i didn't get a chance to read this book this month! I got into a reading slump and got a bit behind 🙈 After seeing what you rated it i'm not that excited about it anymore 🥴😬"

Sorry to turn you off! Maybe you'll end up liking it more