Claire Yar's Reviews > This Child of Mine

Rather predictable and cliche

I wanted to like this book as the story caught my eye but I ended up skimming most of the too-long-try-hard descriptive passages to get to the meat of the thing, which if I am honest could have been covered in a short story. The "my best friend is a fertility specialist but I don't want to get her advice" story line was just so cliche as well as the "my obviously devoted husband is hiding a secret lover from me" just didn't pass the sniff test.

Further, I didn't at all like the self involved, whiny main character, so just wasn't invested and in the end only really wanted to see if she was going to live or die. I won't spoil it for anyone else but at the 50% mark I knew what was going to happen and it predictably did. Good premise, poor execution. Sorry. I gave it 2 stars because I did actually finish the book as it was technically well written and edited.