1.5 stars

What I liked:

1. I liked that Andi was a grown woman who decided that motherhood wasn’t for her and didn’t change her mind or cave to pressure. I am a mom and it’s the greatest joy of my life, but I totally respect people who fee differently. If you’re not sure it’s something you want, you shouldn’t do it.
That being said, I didn’t like how Andi blamed her poor relationship with her mother for the reason she didn’t want kids.

2. I didn’t have to pay for this drivel because it, along with the other books in the series, was on kindle unlimited.

What I didn’t like:

1. Character assassination. I hated that David acted completely out of character. I don’t care what he was going through. He never would treat Andi the way he did. He was turned into a total jerk in an attempt to get the reader to sympathize with Andi. This was completely unsuccessful. I still disliked Andi as much, if not more, than I did in the second book. Honestly, I kept having to remind myself that this was a 43 year old woman. She reads like a petty, selfish, insecure 20-something. To have the character of David morph into a completely different person was absolutely absurd.

2. Miscommunication as a plot device/toxic relationship. These two have such a toxic relationship. I don’t think they have a single conversation in this book that doesn’t begin or end with a fight or some sort of miscommunication. Both of them keep things from the other, even knowing that it’s hurting them in the long run.

3. Terrible dialogue. It’s awful. I go into more detail about this in my reviews for the previous books, but the short story is that people don’t talk the way these characters do. At one point, Wylie, David’s 15-year old daughter, says the line, “I was bored beyond measure.” I’m sorry, but 15-Year olds don’t speak that way. They just don’t.

4. Telling, not showing. This has been another prevalent problem of mine throughout these books. Andi’s inner voice becomes very philosophical and preachy, almost like she is reciting a textbook or something. It wasn’t quite as pronounced in this book, but it was still there. Also, there are several intimate scenes with absolutely no description. Now, I’m not saying I need all the details, but we’re given nothing.

One example of an intimate scene:
“And that was just the foreplay—the sex, God The sex! I don’t think we’d ever had sex like that.”

Ummm...what’s the point in writing sex scenes if you aren’t actually going to write them? Especially considering how blunt these characters are with each other—they casually discuss ‘fucking’ this person and that in the middle of relatively public places on a consistent basis. It just seems strange the line that the author drew when it came to what she chose to be descriptive about.

5. Andi. I know I already mentioned this, but it bears repeating: Andi is one of the most petty, annoying, selfish, insecure people I’ve ever had the misfortune to read about. She’s insufferable. Not only that, but she justifies all her bad behavior while vilifying others for similar behavior. She is such a hypocrite. I don’t know how many instances while reading this series I said to myself, “Pot, meet Kettle.” Pretty much every time she would get all judgmental and self-righteous...which was at least once per chapter.

Other odds and ends:

-Did you know that Wylie has David’s eyes? Because she totally does. She has his eyes. And don’t forget. Not that you would be able to forget, because you’re reminded every 15 pages or so that she has his eyes. Not just the color, but the shape! 🙄🙄🙄

-I don’t like when books use cancer as a plot device. It’s literally in this book to throw a wedge between David and Andi. There were a couple of moments, especially at the end, where I had some mild feels about it, but it didn’t feel particularly well-developed.

-Oh, and Andi has her father’s eyes. So she and Wylie have something in common. They both have their father’s eyes. Because in case I forgot to mention it 632 times, Wylie has David’s eyes.