I love this book

I just finished reading this book today. I really enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I loved Emily Giffin's previous two books, Something Borrowed followed by Something Blue, which featured the same characters, so I was a little bummed that this book didn't have those characters again. However, she did manage to mingle a couple of them in for a brief moment towards the end of the book, which thrilled me.
I don't know why I loved this book so much, probably because I'm in that stage of life where a lot of my friends have either started having kids or are thinking about it and I'm not to that stage yet and I'm not even convinced I want kids at this point. And since women not wanting kids is kind of a taboo subject, especially in my culture/religion, it was interesting to see the perspective of a lead character not wanting children and how that decision molds her life and the lives of the people around her. I just adored this book and all the different scenarios it laid out in the open. It was fantastic.

Now, to just put a disclaimer on that previous statement that I'm not convinced I want kids. I have an internal conflict, where I think it'd be nice (or I've been trained by society that it is expected) to have kids and start a family, but I don't want to bring kids into the world just for me to hire someone else to raise them. I have a degree and I want a career and it is probably selfish of me to put my career and desire to achieve great success ahead of my familial obligations, but that's why it's an internal conflict. I know that if I have a child I will still want to have a full time job, otherwise, what was the point of all that education. At the same time if I have a kid, I will want to be the one to raise it and teach it good values and be there for all the "firsts" not paying someone else to be there and teach it. So now that that's out there, you all know my darkest secret. Someday I'll figure out that right balance, and all of you can stop thinking I'm some kind of odd-ball.