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Title: The Baby ExchangeAuthor: Hannah ParryFormat reviewed: EbookSource: NetgalleyPublisher: Self PublishedPublication Date: 1st July 2025Rating: 3 Stars
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Title: The Baby Exchange
Talent agent Mae Miller has problems . . .
Her mother, Elsa, who has Alzheimer's, has gambled away all of Mae's savings. Billy Mac, her most lucrative client, has been poached by uber-agent Matthias Bloom. And Mae is eight months pregnant, with a baby she doesn’t want.
Enter The Baby Exchange.
When a reality TV show seeks an expectant mother willing to have her baby adopted, Mae seizes the opportunity.
But there’s a price . . .
In the city of Los Angeles where viewing figures are king, Mae is about to be manipulated into giving away far more than she realises.
What will it cost to secure the happy future promised to her by The Baby Exchange for a baby she thought she didn't want – but who is becoming increasingly real each day?
I'm really unsure what I think about this book, quite a few hours after reading it.
On the whole I generally enjoyed reading this story, but at times I wasn't really sure if I liked any of the characters.
Mae is hard to like, I could understand her decisions, but felt she acted even younger than her young age would suggest. On one hand she seems naïve, on the other she is pregnant with a cryptic pregnancy.
Where this book really shone for me was highlighting the vast array of emotions of discovering you are pregnant at 37 weeks, without realising before hand. And how that means you may not be as bonded to the baby as you might have been, had you known you were growing one of 9 months.
And the issues surrounding surrogacy were all very interesting too.
I think though at times the book was lacking that certain quality that for me turns a good book into a great one.
I definitely enjoyed it, and it has a great concept behind it.
Thank you to Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.