🎧ARC Review: Josh and Gemma Make a Baby by Sarah Ready

My review: 4⭐

I do love me a rom-com and this one was a delightfully heartwarming slow burn. So cute!

Gemma really wants a baby to raise on her own. She decides to do IVF and asks her brothers best friend, Josh, to be her sperm donor. He agrees and although they have known each other for years and actually lost their virginity together, how well do they really know each other? Many assumptions are made and we all know what happens when you assume…

Josh has book boyfriend potential with his easy going, charming, sweet and jokester demeanor. I do kinda wish it was written in dual point of view, so we would’ve known how he was feeling through the whole process and just his feelings in general.

The narration was perfect and I can tell why Erin is an award winner!
This is my first time with this author, but it will not be my last.

Trigger warnings: infertility, IVF and miscarriages

**Many thanks to Netgalley, Swift & Lewis Publishing, LLC and Sarah Ready for the advanced audio-book copy in exchange for my honest review**

Book blurb: Release date ~ January 25, 2022

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.