Baby Bank (Queerly Devoted #1) by Sarah Robinson

I’m still trying to decide whether I liked this book or not. Humour is a very personal thing, keep that in mind while reading this review, not everyone laughs at the same jokes, so what didn’t work for me may very well be what makes you laugh out loud. Baby Bank is marketed as a “comedic story of LGBTQIA+ romance and millennial-specific drama”, and it took me a while to find anything funny. Maybe I’m too old for “millennial-specific drama”.

Mila is thirty-four, a divorce lawyer by day, a comedian by night. Her doctor suggests that she’s at an age when she should start thinking about whether she wants to have children, suggests she might want to freeze her eggs, but suddenly she decides right now is the right time and a week or so later has found a sperm donor, Aston, on an app and inseminates herself.

The romance comes in the form of the sperm donor’s sister, Ali, a journalist who has been hounding Mila for an article she’s writing about one of her clients, an anti-abortion politician.

I won’t lie, reading this book required a lot of suspension of disbelief. A lot. The whole donor thing is over the top and kinda creepy, even if the author manages to make Aston sound sweet. As the story goes on, Mila is shown as having wanted children all her life, as if being a mother was her goal along, yet when her doctor mentioned it, she seemed completely surprised. To be fair, she could have been stunned by his vagina jokes.

All this asides however, once I stopped trying to make sense of things, it was a fun read, efficiently written and with character growth. 3.5⭐️