Josh and Gemma Make A Baby
Author: Sarah Ready
Publisher: Swift & Lewis Publishing, LLC
Published: January 25, 2022
Pages: 414 pagesFormat: ebook and audiobookGenre: Romance, Adult, Contemporary
Huge thanks to NetGalley for granting me access to review this book in exchange for an honest book review.
SYNOPSIS:
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
THOUGHTS:
TW: Infertility, Parental Death
I am just blow away about this book. It talks about infertility and finding a way to get her New Year wish, a baby. To be really honest, I was very hesitant to request this book but I just thought, this would be really good and close to my heart. And it is. The topic just hits home and I just want it close to me to motivate me in this PCOS journey.
I really like Gemma. She is older than the usually books I read but for some reason I see myself in her. I always, always have quotes to motivate me and to keep me at bay. I love how positive she is and really sees everything on the bright side. No matter how hard her life has been and how her mother kept on setting her up on dates after her divorce, she still appreciates her family. I really love the little NYE tradition her family had and makes you wonder who made those resolutions.
Josh, the high school crush. I really love Josh and how great of a day he is. I really enjoyed all the scenes with Gemma and those visits for fertility. I really laugh so hard with all of Josh antics. I felt so sorry for how his life has been. He moved back home to be with his dying father and knowing that he had no one once he died. I really find Josh and Gemma’s encounter and how Gemma told Josh to be her donor.
I appreciate how Josh is there in every step of Gemma’s journey. It warms my heart that he drops everything to be with her and help her get pregnant. He even wishes her well when he saw her with someone else.
I don’t want to talk about the Ian the fraud, not the life goro.
Writing Style
This book was such an easy book to read. Everything in this book just make sense without being in your face. I love how it tackles about issues that not a lot of books shares about.
Wanders Between Pages 