#amy daws

“Baking as a turn on”????

“Fact or Fiction”?????

“She can only sleep in his arms”???????????

hand necklace ???????

Summary:

Fact or fiction: proposing to your best friend so she can inherit her family business is a great idea.

When Addison “Roe” Monroe tells me she’s going on a husband hunt at the local lumberjack competition so she can inherit her father’s lumberyard, desperate times call for desperate measures.

She’s sworn off romance. Says she’s been through enough tragedy. So I offer myself as an alternative, 'cause that’s what best friends are for.

But my stubborn friend, who would rather drive a forklift than get her nails done, refuses to accept my help, and now I find myself training to become a lumberjack.

I refuse to let Roe hitch her wagon to some hulking ax wielder who might be a serial killer. She means too much to me.

And I swear there are moments where she looks at me like I mean something more to her, too.

On the surface, I’m offering a marriage of convenience to protect her. But the truth is…I’m hopelessly in love with my best friend.

So if I have to marry her and move her up to Fletcher Mountain just to see if she could love me back, so be it.

So to get back into a good reading rhythm I am rereading Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws. I loved this book the first time I read it and now that I have the other books for the series I'm gonna be reading it once more to get back into the world.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75

I have a lot of thoughts, and a lot of feelings. Like a lot. So we will just start with the positive and go on from there.

Things I liked, Wyatt. Literally just him and the animals. I loved how protective he was and how he was just a caretaker. I’m love language is definitely acts of service so I really loved seeing all the things that he did. Leaving her breakfast and just wanting to care for Trista made me smile. I loved seeing that he wanted to be a dad and was so excited about the process and idea. I do wish that he was more up about his past earlier on, and that their communication was better. And I wish he had learned to express his concerns a little better, but honestly Trisha was so much worse with her communication.

The things I liked about Trista? She knew what she wanted in life, but that is literally the only good thing that I can say about her, I really didn’t like her at all even at the end. She rubbed me all sorts of wrong. Now I can respect the hustle of being a surrogate, but I really draw the line of dehumanizing yourself in the process. I HATED that she constantly thought of herself as a “cow” in order to remain detached to the pregnancy. And I also didn’t like how she constantly was back and forth with body positivity. And how her “independence” was causing more harm than good. It ticked me off that she was so accepting of everyone else doting on her but Wyatt. Oh also didn’t really enjoy that inner thought mattress sense (iykyk) like yeah I get what you are saying, but you could have used literally anything else to get the point across. I also didn’t like how she just kept pretending that she wasn’t pregnant or “forgetting” that she was pregnant. Like girl he is asking you to rest because you could be putting his baby that you are getting paid to carry at risk, and yourself. He ain’t trying to control you. 🙄

Mercedes giggles and presses a finger to my lips to shush me. I bite playfully at her finger and mouth, "Sorry."