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Josh and Gemma Make a Baby by Sarah Ready

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 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Sarah Ready for sending me an e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!   I am a big Sarah Ready fan ( check out my review  of the first book in her Soulmates in Romeo series!) and was so excited to read her new book.  Below are my honest thoughts. Focused around the topic of fertility, children, and the struggles of IVF, this romance is so cute!  Josh and Gemma fit so well together - though it takes them a while to see it.   This is a second chance romance, with some subtle misunderstandings and a very oblivious main character (though we love her anyway).   Gemma has been divorced and is done with men, but she really wants a baby.  In fact, she lists it as her New Year's Resolution and sets out to  recruit  Josh Lewenthal - her brother's childhood best friend - to be the sperm donor.  Surprisingly, Josh agrees.  Despite Gemma's plans for a no-commitment exchange, these two reconnect as they go through starting the process of

Matchmaking Mischief by Denise Grover Swank and A.R. Casella

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 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and the authors for sending me an e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review! I reviewed two other books in the Bad Luck Club series here: Love at First Hate and Jingle Bell Hell . Willow and Alex are so cute together!  I love how well they mesh and that they both get so involved in each other’s projects, even as virtual strangers. Their enthusiasm for helping is adorable, especially as Willow teaches Alex to love it and then it sort of grows into its own sort of club. The influence of the Bad Luck Club from early books is there, but this book is much more focused on these characters creating their own group. Of course there are some missteps along the way, but I loved reading Alex and Willow’s journey to being a couple, and the mischief they get up to trying to get others to couple up. Overall this story is both adorable and humorous, which is one of my favorite kinds of romances.  He needs to go away. Which means someone needs to matchmake