I read this book, after reading the “Part of Your World” series. I loved those books, and I was anxious to read more from this author. I loved the characters in those books and all their flaws, some of them even with mental health issues.

This book is harder for me to rate. I loved the story and how it played out overall. Parts of it definitely caught me by surprise. Tackling a tough subject like infertility, which is a physical and emotional issue that affects so many, is a subject that needed its own story. Overall, I enjoyed the characters in this book, and I hurt along with them when they had to deal with so many things. Josh was my favorite character by far. What an incredible guy he was. I loved that he wasn’t threatened by a strong woman, and in fact, knew how to handle them after having grown up with six of them as sisters.

I had a harder time with Kristen. In the f/m romance novels I read, I insist that the female MCs are strong women who aren’t “wimpy.” And Kristen is definitely a strong woman. I think Josh defines her well in the book.

She was like a unicorn. A mythical creature. An honest, no-drama woman who didn’t bullshit and drank beer and cussed and didn’t care about what people thought of her. She was a unicorn, tucked in the body of an attractive woman with a great ass.

She should be someone I embrace and laud, but as the book went on, I wanted to shake her every time she locked down emotionally and ghosted Josh, breaking his heart a little bit more. To me, she came off as selfish rather than selfless, obstinate instead of holding to her principles, and a stubborn know-it-all instead of self-aware. Yes, her mental health issues and her relationship with her mother clouded her ability to assess, but I couldn’t stand how she summarily decided Josh’s future WITHOUT asking him. Thank goodness he was the “unicorn” between the two of them.

So, I’m left trying to decide between 3 and 4 stars. Because of that, I’m going with 3.5 stars.