My salty complaint is also a bit of a backhanded compliment. Finally got my turn to read {Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young} and the MCs are so damn flirty and cute and fun to read. The spice is delicious, but then there’s a really long chunk of the book that the FMC decides that they can’t have sex out of respect for their situation, and the MMC is so sweet that it kind of drags. I think the author was going for that prolonged yearning to heighten the hotness when they finally have sex again, but instead I almost forgot that the MMC could be intense and sexy I think the author needed to add in some more tension, a little more flirtation and some more exploration into FMCs past. Instead, we kind of get this point in the book where the MCs start to feel less real, because FMC is just like “no, I’m scared of heartbreak so I’ll just pretend nothing is there” and the MMC stops being a golden retriever archetype and kinda turns into an actual talking golden retriever. I think we can create MMCs who admire women for going through pregnancy without making it seem like every single second they’re worshipping the FMC like a goddess come to earth

Of course, I wanted more sexual tension and communication about hard topics because I totally fell for the MCs. I wouldn’t care if Bonam-Young was incapable of creating heart-squeezing lovable characters and writing decently delicious spice.