The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone, #1)
Abby Jimenez
Kristen Petersen doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children. Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen -- especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He's funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of her hangry. Even her dog, Stuntman Mike, adores him. The only catch: Josh wants a big family someday. Kristen knows he'd be better off with someone else, but as their attraction grows, it's harder and harder to keep him at arm's length.
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Abby really knows how to take my heart, crumble it up, rip it apart, and then tape it back together.
This was absolutely amazing and I felt the emotions of each of the characters as if they were my own. Phenomenal.
0Another “cool girl” FMC I’m begging you all to stop putting other women down being “low maintenance” does not make you better than other women.
Also this book is so sad. Like unnecessarily sad and it made the rest of the book hard to pay attention to.
01.5 but rounded down. WOOF. This book was rough on so many levels. Mainly rough because of Kristin. She was absolutely insufferable. Unbearable. Self-centered. Obnoxious.
The way she lead Josh on was so hard to listen to. The way she absolutely abandoned him when his best friend died was atrocious. Her desire to “protect” Josh was so incredibly egocentric after a certain point that it was painful to read. The amount of eye rolling I did in the last 1/4 of the book was shocking.
In what world would a firefighter want NINE children?! C’mon.
I was also really frustrated by the author’s commentary on infertility. Kristin wasn’t infertile. She got pregnant - “the first time we didn’t use a condom.” Frankly that’s an insulting storyline for women who actually battle infertility. There’s a difference between infertility and reproductive/uterine issues.
Kristin needing to be loved was such a surprising add-on at the end of the story. And not in a good way. It made me feel like I didn’t know Kristin at all. She was presented to us as a confident, sarcastic, tomboy and then all of a sudden we are expected to believe she has OCD and has such severe mommy issues (and we only interacted with her mom once) that she doesn’t believe she deserves love. It was sloppy and confusing.
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