Guys, this hurt. I'm not going to come at you if you loved this book, and I hope you won't come at me for being in the minority in finding The Friend Zone offensive. I didn't even want to write a review for this book, because it seems like everywhere I see it, people are talking about the characters with stars in their eyes and boasting what a strong infertile female is featured within its pages. Perhaps that's where I went wrong; I had completely different expectations for this book. I went in thinking this would be an anthem for the ladies who struggled with their fertility, wherever they fall on that spectrum, but instead we end up with another unrealistic cliche of an ending.

To be fair to the author, I've only read one book headlining an infertile woman that didn't end in a similar manner. Up until

the death of a character to forward the plot

, I was heading in 4-4.5 star territory, but then that ending came, and I couldn't shake the shock that it really wrapped up that way.

I understand that in EXTREMELY rare cases, infertile women can in fact end up pregnant, as my mom was one of those cases, but to tout a book as championing a woman coming to terms with her infertility and then ending the book with her becoming pregnant after having unprotected sex ONCE and the explanation is that this man has super sperm? And the whole IUD thing? GTFO. I'm glad I didn't read this while undergoing my own fertility treatments, and I've heard similar dialogue from other women with fertility issues, so it's clearly not just me.

I was hoping for a story where an infertile woman comes to terms with her barren state, but instead what I was served is a heavy dose of

romanticizing a woman "coming to terms with her fertility struggles" by receiving her little bundle of joy in the end.