Josh and Gemma Make a Baby by Sarah Ready

 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 IVF.  Maybe there's a little more there than Gemma expected... in fact, they might fulfill more than one resolution this year.

Sarah Ready has a good example of character development throughout the story, as we learn more about Gemma as she learns about herself.  I also enjoyed her friendship with the ladies of the fertility group - asking for a friend (it's me, I'm wondering), can we get Carly’s backstory next??
I do wish we had gotten to see Josh’s perspective in this story - he has some included sketches that serve to illustrate what moments are important to him, which is a detail I love in this book - but I would have loved to have a look into his brain during some of the chapters. 

Overall this book is too cute to resist and I definitely recommend it as your next romance read!


When the baby-making ends will something else begin?


Josh and Gemma Make a Baby, an all new laugh-out-loud friends-to-lovers romantic comedy from bestselling author Sarah Ready is available now!


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, business-like 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.


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