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A review by notwarriors
He Gets That From Me by Jacqueline Friedland
4.0
He Gets That From Me is a dual perspective novel in the point of view of two families. It takes place in a few different places in time.
First we have Maggie. She is a young mom of a toddler who dreams of going to college. She takes an opportunity to carry a baby for a gay couple, Chip and Donovan. Maggie carries the babies (twins) for Chip and Donovan, delivers them and then carries on with her life with her husband and son. The money she got for carrying the babies gives her the opportunity to go to school as she always dreamed.
Then we follow Donovan, who several years in the future has done one of those ancestry-DNA-family-tree things and has just found out that one of their twins, Kai, is not biologically related to anyone in their family. How is that possible if Kai and Teddy are twins? It is a thing apparently. Kai is the biological son of Maggie and her husband, Nick. Does that mean that Kai should move in with Maggie and Nick since he is their biological son? Or should he stay with Chip and Donovan, since they are his parents who have raised him?
It was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster at times. I quite liked this and read it quickly as I was eager to see what the fate of these two families would be.
First we have Maggie. She is a young mom of a toddler who dreams of going to college. She takes an opportunity to carry a baby for a gay couple, Chip and Donovan. Maggie carries the babies (twins) for Chip and Donovan, delivers them and then carries on with her life with her husband and son. The money she got for carrying the babies gives her the opportunity to go to school as she always dreamed.
Then we follow Donovan, who several years in the future has done one of those ancestry-DNA-family-tree things and has just found out that one of their twins, Kai, is not biologically related to anyone in their family. How is that possible if Kai and Teddy are twins? It is a thing apparently. Kai is the biological son of Maggie and her husband, Nick. Does that mean that Kai should move in with Maggie and Nick since he is their biological son? Or should he stay with Chip and Donovan, since they are his parents who have raised him?
It was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster at times. I quite liked this and read it quickly as I was eager to see what the fate of these two families would be.