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A review by bookish_kristina
Red Dirt Heart 4 by N.R. Walker
4.0
This book was good. Very emotional and I loved seeing Travis’ perspective, but let’s be honest, this was basically an 8 hour long epilogue, and that’s ok.
However, not full stars because it needed a fact check on a couple of things.
1. The weather in central Texas in November, another Texan reviewer said it better than my Canadian ass but I can’t link to them so you’ll just have to trust me, no one is shivering in 10-20 degree Celsius temperatures, even if they are coming from summer in the outback.
The rest of this is full of spoilers so I’m just gonna hide it all.
2. How surrogacy works. I won’t comment on any of the intricacies of Australian adoption or same sex marriage law because I don’t know anything, but in most countries, surrogacy isn’t really legal and the way to bypass that is for the parents to adopt. If same sex adoption isn’t legal, then how did they become legal parents of this child? Also I’ve never heard of a case where a surrogate mother also provides the egg, because that’s giving your baby away or adoption, not providing a womb. Most surrogacy is gestational surrogacy and involves in vitro from a donor egg with donor sperm implanted in a surrogate. If they had a lawyer advising them, they would NEVER advise using a surrogate who also donated the egg.
So ya, I’m a nit picker, but details are important for my enjoyment and these details were sketchy.
So I love this couple and I enjoyed their story, but this last book was not what it could have been.
Again the narrator Joel Leslie was awesome and him crying through reading the Shelby scene ruined me. YOU RUINED ME JOEL!
However, not full stars because it needed a fact check on a couple of things.
1. The weather in central Texas in November, another Texan reviewer said it better than my Canadian ass but I can’t link to them so you’ll just have to trust me, no one is shivering in 10-20 degree Celsius temperatures, even if they are coming from summer in the outback.
The rest of this is full of spoilers so I’m just gonna hide it all.
Spoiler
2. How surrogacy works. I won’t comment on any of the intricacies of Australian adoption or same sex marriage law because I don’t know anything, but in most countries, surrogacy isn’t really legal and the way to bypass that is for the parents to adopt. If same sex adoption isn’t legal, then how did they become legal parents of this child? Also I’ve never heard of a case where a surrogate mother also provides the egg, because that’s giving your baby away or adoption, not providing a womb. Most surrogacy is gestational surrogacy and involves in vitro from a donor egg with donor sperm implanted in a surrogate. If they had a lawyer advising them, they would NEVER advise using a surrogate who also donated the egg.
So ya, I’m a nit picker, but details are important for my enjoyment and these details were sketchy.
So I love this couple and I enjoyed their story, but this last book was not what it could have been.
Again the narrator Joel Leslie was awesome and him crying through reading the Shelby scene ruined me. YOU RUINED ME JOEL!