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She Gets That from Me

By: Robin Wells
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer, Abby Craden, Mark Deakins, Cynthia Darlow
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Publisher's summary

Quinn never expected that her best friend’s courageous decision to be a single mother by choice would end up transforming her own life in this poignant novel from USA Today best-selling author Robin Wells.

When Quinn Langston’s best friend unexpectedly passes away, Quinn embraces Brooke’s three-year-old daughter, Lily, and elderly grandmother Margaret as the family she’s always wanted. She’ll do whatever it takes to help them heal, but she didn’t anticipate Lily’s biological father would be part of the plan. Margaret is old-fashioned, though, and she has no compunction about finding a way to reach Lily’s dad, a sperm donor.

After all, he's a blood relative, and she believes family should raise family. Zack Bradley doesn't know what to expect when he finds out he has a child. Sperm donors don't usually get to meet their...well, he's not sure what to call Lily yet, but he’s certain he wants to get to know her. There’s just one of problem: He’s about to move to Seattle with his wife, Jessica, who’s undergone multiple infertility treatments, desperately wants a family of her own, and can’t stand the idea of Zack playing daddy to another woman’s child.

Together, they’ll all learn that the human heart is infinitely expandable and there are many different roads to family.

©2020 Robin Wells (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"She Gets That from Me is an intense, emotionally charged novel that deals with the issues of modern relationships while asking age-old questions of what it means to be a family. Provocative, engaging and impossible to put down." (Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times best-selling author)

"A lovely story of friendship and family. Perfect for fans of contemporary women’s fiction. I enjoyed every word.” (Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times best-selling author)

"Both heartwarming and heartbreaking.... A unique tale about the amazing way love binds us all.” (Woman’s World)

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Too perfect, Irritating narration

Having four narrators do the voice of Lilly (the child) was just too overwhelming. Not one (especially not Therese Plummer) captured the essence of Lilly; Abby Craden's interpretation seemed to be the winner, but still it made the listening difficult. Therese Plummer is great for Virgin River books, but her voice interpretation of Quinn was too gruff. The voice assignments seemed to have been mixed up. Abby Craden's voice was more befitting of Quinn than as the character Jessica. I rarely download books with TP as the narrator because all her female characters sound the same and all her male characters sound the same. So I could be listening to this book, but I'm stuck in Virgin River because her male voice is exactly as gruff as those in Virgin River. Regarding the storyline, well, it was too fairytale-like. Zack went from one relationship to another, and that defied the author's portrayal of Zack being a good and faithful husband. In other words, his actions did not match the author's opinion of him. And, overall, it just had that "guy swoops in at the end to rescue the day" feel...and that isn't interesting or real. The best way for me to judge whether a book has had an effect on my life is: 1. Do I remember all the character's names? No, in this book, I couldn't recall the heroine's name when I sat down to write this review. 2. Do I see the world differently after listening? No; this was just a listen that consumed 13 hours of my time. 3. Can I clearly see ways that I would have changed the manuscript to bring depth to the characters/storyline? Yes. And when I start to take the storyline off into a different direction that opens conversations, makes the reader think differently, etc., the author's material has lost me. Cynthia Darlow seemed to best portray her character.

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Very Different Read

Loved this book! Robin Wells is able to capture the details, the emotion all into one lovely book! If you want a feel good story, despite loss - please read! You won’t regret it.

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Love this book!

Loved this book! It had me from go, but Im a sucker for a happy-go-lucky book! Ill be looking for more books from this Author. Therese Plummer is one of my favorite Narrators.
Thank you for a wonderful easy listening story.

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Disparaging towards women, do not recommend

TLDR: Though the writer clearly has talent, this book is misogynistic and disparaging towards those who experience fertility issues. I do not recommend it.

*Warning - as others have stated, this book should come with a trigger warning. If you have experienced fertility conditions, have experienced pregnancy loss, or are in a relationship where you are regularly gaslit and blamed, this book and its treatment of these subjects may be even more upsetting and hurtful than it was to me.

If you want to read a book with tons of misogynistic, internalized patriarchal themes, this one’s for you! There is tons of pathologizing language towards women who experience fertility-related health conditions. And *lots* of gaslighting - eg. “You’re being an unreasonable and hysterical woman. I could be supportive, kind, and understanding. But since I am a man in a position of power over you, I am going to blame you, shame you, and use unhealthy, manipulative tactics against you. I am going to be emotionally abusive towards you and then manipulate you into believing it was your fault.” And prepare yourself, he is never held accountable. Everyone regards him as a wonderful human being, including his bosses who promote him after he quit and returned, the main female character whose boundaries he plows right over, the woman he emotionally abused, and literally every other person in the story. He doesn’t even take responsibility for ending his own marriage. He treats his wife so horribly that she chooses to file for divorce and he can leave with the narrative that he “did everything he could to save his marriage” but she “gave up and walked away”, so he gets to play the role of victim.

There are several instances of antiquated (read: racist) language. Lots of self-reverential, self-righteous, adolescent internal monologue - “I shouldn’t be having these thoughts and feelings!”, purity grandstanding, and vilification of people who don’t buy into organized religion.

And oh the misogyny! The woman who goes to church, self-sacrifices, silences herself, and quietly pines for someone in a committed relationship, “gets” the man, all of the babies, many instantly-supportive friends, and the “happy” ending of cutting her hours at the business she built to have babies and stay home with them.

The woman who is decisive, follows her career goals, gets reasonably upset when her spouse leaves her multiple times when he prioritizes everyone but her, sets healthy boundaries, has the audacity to use the word “god” out of religious context, and speaks to clear truth and reality, gets vilified and called “the sad lady”. She utilizes resources available to her to find out information he’s refused to give her, which she’s clearly stated she very understandably needs - and is blamed for every crappy action her husband makes afterward. Her character internalizes shame and blame, apologizes for things that weren’t true or her fault. After all of that, she still calls him a “wonderful, kind, amazing” man and is still trying to “get him back” and get pregnant with his baby until the end of the book.

The internalized patriarchy is off the charts. Every issue that occurs in this book is a woman’s fault – the man is culpable for absolutely nothing. The treatment of female characters in this book is abhorrent. One dies, one is left orphaned, one has a medical emergency and is hospitalized. One is emotionally cheated on and left to deal with “her infertility problems” - yes that is exactly what her husband says to her - alone. One woman’s mother is described as an alcoholic and vilified for never wanting to have children. Another woman’s mother is labeled as critical, judgmental, and having too high expectations. (I’ll take lazy pathologizing tropes about women for $500 Alex.)

Of note, the child who is young enough to baby talk and mispronounce words, regularly makes statements that a child of that age would absolutely not say. There’s suspension of disbelief, but her statements were laughably #thingsthatneverhappened and ostensibly an instrument used to drive action when the author could not figure out a better way to do it.

One of the most jarring issues with this novel is that it is obvious that not one person with a fertility condition was consulted by this author. The flippancy and disrespect with which the male lead character’s wife is treated is horrifying. As the character struggles, processes her feelings, grieves her losses, begs her spouse to understand - her husband’s experience is centered as he calls her “obsessed”, “unreasonable” and all kinds of awful other things that I really don’t feel like quoting.

At the end of the book, the writer pontificates (and actually quotes the pope?) about the joys of being a mother and having a family. She pats herself on the back for writing a story about all of the people she sees going in and out of the fertility clinic she regularly passes by and what she imagines their experiences to be. Here’s a good idea to center on when writing about the human experience: center the human experience. Let “Nothing about us without us” be the guidepost.

This is all just the tip of the idiocy and disfunction that permeates what could have been a great story. It is unconscionable that an author would use their platform to write this kind of patriarchal, ignorant, pathologizing drivel in the year 2020.

I hope this author’s next book reflects growth and evolution. I hope they do better next time, if not for themselves, for their readers.

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Story should come with a trigger warning

This is a triggering book if you are struggling to conceive or have so in the past.

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Predictable But Enjoyable

Very easy to listen to. Love the narrator. Great beach read or low stress read.

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You get pulled in quickly & can’t put it down

This book pulls you in from the start. I couldn’t stop listening to it. I loved the different voices for the different chapters / perspectives - the one for the grandma sounded like my grandma! I’d listen to it again and do recommend

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No words

I can’t begin to say how much I loved this book. I completely fell in love with the characters. The story kept going consistently throughout the whole book. And that narration team? Oh man 💯👌🏼

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First book I've felt like I should leave a review

This book had me on my toes from the beginning! It kept me up late the two days it took me to finish it. I enjoyed the narrators and the storyline very much.

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very nice and easy listening.

I really enjoyed listening to this book. what I didn't get is who really contacted the donator bank. grandma or Jessica? this was fiction but a very real read. the end was awesome.

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