There are so many beautiful instances in the novel as a whole that just made me sit back and absorb just how amazing Picoult’s writing style is. The book made me feel so many emotions – happiness, laughter, anger, and sadness. While the world has made leaps and bounds since 2011 – including the USA – there are still states, countries, situations that echo what happened to them. This just adds to the validity of the feeling behind the whole story – Zoe and Vanessa could be any LGBT couple that we know fighting for their right to exist equally in today’s society. Every person I’ve told the plot to told me that they’ve heard of something similar happening, but couldn’t pinpoint exactly. The case is very believable and also echoes something that has happened in the past. This is a story told in 2011, a story that honestly feels so real to read. She asks Max permission to use them, so that Vanessa, can carry her child to term, but Max takes her to court – family court, over property law – because he’s now a born again Christian who refuses to have his children raised in a ‘sinful household’.

Seeing as Zoe and Max were trying to become pregnant using IVF treatment, Zoe still has 3 frozen embryos left over from her last cycle. A few months later, Zoe has married Vanessa, and they’re living happily and in love together.

After their third miscarriage, Max asks Zoe for a divorce, stating that he no longer wants a baby like Zoe does. Vanessa is a school counselor who knows Zoe because Zoe sometimes works at the school with teenagers. Max is a former alcoholic, a surfer dude who owns a landscaping company. Zoe is a music therapist who has been married to Max for ten years, and has wanted a baby since she was a child. The story is told through three points of view: Zoe, Max, and Vanessa. I’m honestly still kind of reeling from the whole thing – the emotional roller coaster, and the happy ending has had me smiling since I finished it. I haven’t read something that caused me to feel so many emotions in a really long time.

I just finished this book about a half hour ago.

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