AUDIO REVIEW: Josh and Gemma Make a Baby by Sarah Ready

Josh and Gemma Make a Baby by Sarah Ready, narrated by Erin Mallon

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REVIEW 

3 stars!

Josh and Gemma Make a Baby by Sarah Ready is a slow burn romantic comedy. It is sweet, clean romance that deals with miscarriage and infertility. The story started out really strong but unfortunately I found the middle slow and the writing a little flawed. Gemma frustrated me to no end. I found her to be selfish and with many flaws. Her stubbornness was a real turn off. I am not a big fan of mis communication in books, and this was was full of them. A lot could have been cleared up with a simple conversation. 

The romance between Josh and Gemma was non existent until the very end of the book. Slow burn romance is good but I want to feel a bit of tension, and push and pull and there was none of this and I didn’t connect with the characters like I wanted to. 

Having said all this, the story is sweet and even funny in spots. Gemma’s a hot mess, in her personal and business life. I couldn’t help at laugh out loud at some of the ridiculously funny situations she found herself in. The author did a good job mixing up the sweet tender moments, the humorous ones and emotional ones. 

While the story overall left a lot to be desired, I adored listening in audiobook format. Erin Mallon is a fantastic narrator! Her range, pitch and emotional delivery of Gemma’s character was perfection. 

*Netgalley ALC 

BLURB

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.