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A review by shereadytoread
Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws
1.5
This book had a bit too much going on and I think in trying to really push the "comedy" of the romantic comedy became extremely cringey. First, allowing your newly 18 year old niece to be in charge of your surrogacy journey was just weird and keeping her POV especially after chapters that include sex scenes felt very odd. It just kept going from there.
I think this book has an odd relationship with surrogacy. Obviously the main character is wanting to be a surrogate and the MMC wants to be a dad but the book can't seem to decide if it's critical of the formal surrogacy industry or not. It also completely undermines what surrogacy is supposed to be even before the relationship is involved. The author has a forward about her own fertility journey and seems to use that to justify why she can flippantly write about surrogacy. This gave very much "buying a baby" and getting pregnant is a funny little task, and trying to use fluffy language around that because we all know the HEA is coming.
The second that the "surrogate" FMC arrives on the mountain, she is immediately acting basically like a live-in girlfriend. She even starts to randomly bring animals and new pets into this man's property and home. I think it's supposed to be a "quirk" and "look how much she loves animals" but a man that is letting her stay for free specifically tells her "don't bring ______" and she does. The MMC is ... not anywhere near an emotionally healthy person that should be becoming a single parent purposefully. Tons of weird family issues that they try to show as "personal development", some weird slut-shamey stuff on a past love interest with no blame for the MMC of course, and in general he's just ... not great?
This is a book of moral and ethical ickiness that is packaged as a cute love story.
Disclosure: I received a free eARC from the publisher.
I think this book has an odd relationship with surrogacy. Obviously the main character is wanting to be a surrogate and the MMC wants to be a dad but the book can't seem to decide if it's critical of the formal surrogacy industry or not. It also completely undermines what surrogacy is supposed to be even before the relationship is involved. The author has a forward about her own fertility journey and seems to use that to justify why she can flippantly write about surrogacy. This gave very much "buying a baby" and getting pregnant is a funny little task, and trying to use fluffy language around that because we all know the HEA is coming.
The second that the "surrogate" FMC arrives on the mountain, she is immediately acting basically like a live-in girlfriend. She even starts to randomly bring animals and new pets into this man's property and home. I think it's supposed to be a "quirk" and "look how much she loves animals" but a man that is letting her stay for free specifically tells her "don't bring ______" and she does. The MMC is ... not anywhere near an emotionally healthy person that should be becoming a single parent purposefully. Tons of weird family issues that they try to show as "personal development", some weird slut-shamey stuff on a past love interest with no blame for the MMC of course, and in general he's just ... not great?
This is a book of moral and ethical ickiness that is packaged as a cute love story.
Disclosure: I received a free eARC from the publisher.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy