Lucy Davenport has a plan. After years of relationships that fell apart the moment things got serious, the thirty-two-year-old Los Angeles attorney has stopped waiting for commitment and decided to build the family she wants on her own.
Amy Bowen definitely does not have a plan. At twenty-six, she’s a broke second-year med student juggling tuition, rent, and the kind of stress that turns coffee into a personality trait. A routine appointment at the world’s most chaotic fertility clinic should have been forgettable.
Instead, a disastrous mistake leaves Amy pregnant with Lucy’s last two embryos.
Amy wants out. Lucy wants the future she’s been trying so hard to create. The arrangement they land on is completely Amy moves into Lucy’s gorgeous house, Lucy covers everything, and they agree to survive the pregnancy without making the whole situation any more complicated than it already is.
Which would be a lot easier if they didn’t have ridiculous chemistry. Or if Lucy weren’t so secretly tender beneath all that control. Or if Amy didn’t look dangerously at home in Lucy’s kitchen.
Because the longer they live together, the less this feels like an accident… and the more it feels like something neither of them planned, but both of them might desperately want.
I Think This Is Yours is a warm, witty sapphic romcom featuring forced proximity, opposites attract, one very inconvenient pregnancy, and a love story that starts with the wrong patient and ends with a family no one saw coming.
Yeah I'd bet my life AI was used in the making of this book. As someone else said there's tons of repetitive scenes and conversations, the two main characters are basically the same person, and there's virtually no chemistry between them. The premise is interesting but I couldn't get past the same boring talks again and again. Also, Amy goes to USC but the shitty AI cover has her wearing a UCLA shirt, pissed me off.
This was absolutely one of the worst written AI romance novels. I’ve read so far. I’ve tried to be patient about this. I’ve tried to understand and relate and say hey it’s going to naturally happen. This disaster of a book however is illustrative of why people hate AI and what it’s doing. Basically somebody just put in“write me a women, loving women romance about a pregnant woman and a mishap between a transfer“ and AI spit out this atrocious mess of a book. Where essentially two women are talking to each other like freaking robots throughout the entirety of it. We’re expected to believe that the gestational carrier falls in love with the biological mother when there’s no chemistry between them whatsoever because AI just can’t write that naturally. My issue is with the fact that this is on Amazon’s list of books to read that there’s no sort of management of this nonsense that has us wasting our time, which is why I’m giving it a bad review to force those of you thinking, you can make a quick buck in this particular genre by putting out trash. I hope no one else reads this foolishness.
This let me down, as the plot and character building started off strong. However, towards the middle I felt like there was a lot of repetition and too much description for the plot and characters.
DNFed at 69%. Obviously I can’t prove this is AI, however, I can definitely state that it feels like AI.
The dialogue was painfully stilted. Every character spoke in the same short, clipped sentences, making them completely indistinguishable from one another. Instead of feeling like conversations between different people, it felt like the same person talking to themselves.
The writing also leaned heavily on repetitive phrases like “the specific quality of…” and “with the kind of…” to the point of distraction. It came across less as intelligent prose and more like someone desperately trying to use their new “Word of the Day” vocabulary in every sentence.
I'm 70% leaning towards this being an AI generated book. I don't know who came up with the plot, could be a human that prompted AI to write this very plot or AI could have generated it from various data sources, I don't know.
I read it because the plot sounded interesting. The writing was very detached, it lacked actual emotion in my opinion. But I did like the premise, hence my 3 star rating.
At least I find solace in knowing AI can't capture human emotions the way good writers do.
Interesting plot. No surprises there. But the book still surprised me with the different style of storytelling and writing. Different, but good. It worked for me. I liked the way Amy and Lucy talked to each other and how the author let the story grow. Though I could feel the connection and warmth between Amy and Lucy develop, the way the analysed what was happening sometimes made me feel distant too.
The reviews with the low ratings were spot on. No chemistry whatsoever, not a slow burn like I thought it might be. Was more like a no burn. Did feel like I was reading the same chapter over and over again. The emotional depth was completely missing. Yeah, robots. I agree. And the way the author (if they did actually write this without AI and someone pointed out) wrote when one of the MCs were having thoughts…drove me mad! Ughhh… sucks because I really wanted to like this book. I think it was the cover and idea that caught my attention. That was pretty much all that was decent about it. Sorry, Iris… :/
Intriguing set up then nothing interesting happens.
I liked the premise and the narrative style was the good kind of interesting. What I didn't like was that all the characters had the exact same personality. We got told they were different or had this trait or that trait, but we never actually saw that in action in the story telling or dialog. The dialog was super restrained and mechanical, like they were all saying as few words as possible to get the essential information across, and everyone spoke in the exact same way. There was also no conflict. Now, I've loved books with no/low drama or angst before, but those stories had some sort of arc or something for the characters to overcome. This had none. They had a problem for about two minutes. Then they basically resolved it immediately upon talking for the first time, then developed the resolution, then acted on that solution with no tension, no conflict, no adjustment needed. The "argument" they have is literally a calm conversation where they communicate effectively and then touch base later to process and ensure they've resolved it properly. They're already aware of their own flaws from the beginning, discuss them immediately, then never actually have to overcome any of them. They have the same personality as in, both Type A overachieving list lovers who emotionally process things the exact same way. It's like they're the exact same person with different backgrounds in different stages of life thrust into the same situation, and then they handle everything perfectly.
In other words...there was no story. No plot. No character development. Even the side characters all had the same personality and spoke the same way. The characters were all very clinical and methodical in their communication, very analytical and logical in their thoughts and emotional processing (which again, was the same), and very little emotional depth was explored until the birth scene at the end, which was far less impactful than it could have been had that development taken place. The friends and family felt like wasted opportunities for character or plot development, and were mainly superfluous.
It was a great premise, an excellent set up, a decent meet cute, then basically you can just skip to the birth, then skip most of what comes after, and you'd miss literally nothing.
There was potential here, so much! But sadly, in my opinion, the potential remains unrealized.
Convinced this written by AI. There’s no record of Blythe grey anywhere on the internet with her face. Her books are written published mere month apart. The word “with the specific quality of…” were use exactly 118 times in the book. And then the names Priya and Okafor were back from book by Blair Maddox and Juno Reardon and Quinn Ashby. All authors I’m convinced are AI content creators. Sigh.
This story starts with a wild but potentially plausible scenario - that a woman who came in to a fertility clinic to donate eggs was instead implanted with the last two fertilized zygotes of another woman.
Amy is a medical student who is short on cash. Donating eggs can get her through this month while her finances catch up.
Lucy is a successful corporate lawyer whose last few relationships have failed when her partners decided that they didn’t really want children.
Her last implantation failed to take. Today is the last time she’s going to try. Her last two fertilized eggs.
Amy and Lucy arrive at the same time. Lucy gets called back to a consultation room to handle an unexpected paperwork issue. A temporary worker, substituting for a clinic regular is told to go out to the waiting room and bring Lucy Davenport back to the room for an implantation procedure. She fetches Amy and never checks her name.
The doctor enters and also fails to check her name. In a few minutes, it’s done. Lucy’s fertilized eggs are now inside Amy.
Within minutes, everyone realizes what a terrible mistake has been made. Lunch approaches Amy to see if Amy would be willing to be the surrogate mother and not end the potential pregnancy. After considering for a week, a contract is drawn up and signed, which includes all expenses paid for Amy plus a generous financial payment, but includes Amy moving in with Lucy.
That’s where the story begins but, of course, it’s not where it ends. Amy is so unlike anyone Lucy has ever dated but that difference speaks to her. They both feel attraction from the beginning but both are afraid that it’s just the situation, and maybe not real. But as the weeks pass, things begin to change.
Read Lucy, Amy, and Evie’s story. I really enjoyed this soft, protective, gentle romance that began with a most improbable start but still arrives at a very happy ever after.
I'm just here to reiterate what every other review seems to mention. I've literally never read a book by AI before, I have no idea whether this is or isn't written by AI, and I'll review it as if it's just an honest attempt from an author to write a book.
The premise of this book is something I had sat on for weeks before actually pulling the trigger is reading it. It had a strong start, and the stilted robotic talk of the characters made sense during the first couple chapters when they were dealing with the emotional fallout of a career ending mistake on the OBGYN's part.
But that's really all I can say that's positive. These two women would be fascinating to any psychologist because they seem so detached from emotion and anything that matters that it's almost worrying. I think there are times where I've read the same sentence multiple times in a row and that's just the structure of the story. There are an incredible amount of timeline inconsistencies that are absolutely blaring to the human eye. Like one paragraph the book mentions a 33 week check up, and then what feels like the very next paragraph it says 30 weeks.
I just, can't in good faith recommend this book to anyone really. Regardless of whether it was written by AI or human, this is just a bad book.
After reading the description of the book before downloading it onto my Kindle, I was very intrigued with this book and story. Once I got into the bulk of the the story, I started to get frustrated with the characters once they became roommates/friends because the dialogue between Amy and Lucy wasn't very forthcoming.. it was very "beat around the bush" and not the usual "Hey, I'm starting to have feelings for you, what do you think?". Plus, the constant repetition of the descriptions of the nighttime sky and seasons of L.A. the small bedroom at the end of the hall, etc.. seemed to be a constant in each chapter rather than just describing them a few times and then letting it go.
Also, the author wrote one of the FMC (Amy) as being a 2nd year med student at USC, yet she's wearing a UCLA Med School shirt on cover for KU. I realize it's a minor detail but still...
I tried to read this book, I had to force myself to finish it I got to page 219 and was just absolutely done with it had to fast forward the pages just so I can write a review. This book had to be written in ai there is no way a human would write this garbage. Be aware that conversation does not flow in this book no character build up I felt all characters in this book felt like the same character. Do not waste your time on this garbage. I dont usually write a review unless I really like the book or if I really dislike the book and right now for this book dislike isn’t even the word I would use for it. Hope this review helps you in trying to look for something worth reading unless u are that bored and want to be even border go ahead but not recommended.
Their involvement started with a mistake. The wrong woman was called into the room, the doctor didn’t confirm the patient and suddenly Amy was pregnant with another woman’s last two eggs. Through this mistake Amy who was there for information about donating eggs and Lucy who was there to have her final two eggs transferred had some very honest conversations. As you would some mistake! The book takes you through the building of their relationship and the honesty they both cherish.
Concept for the story was cool and that's that. AI slop all over the place, repeated topics of conversations, the connection between main characters is not convincing at all, timeline of pregnancy is messed up. Monosylable answers, all "deeper" talks start with name of one of the MCs and then infodump. Also MCs have same personality, same way of thinking in their internal monologues and most of all the romance part is lacking like a lot....Everything is AI from long dashes to book cover...sadly dissapointing
A Sweet & Emotional Story About An Error In An Egg Donation Clinic
I have to say I loved this book. I think the format of conversation between the main is based on their personalities. I don’t think it is AI generated. Author should address it. However these two women who find themselves in a situation have very similar personalities. Those traits are what dictates and propels the story forward. Accepting what happened, dealing with their new normal and learning to keep moving forward and not back. Leaning to be honest and using their words correctly.
I’m sorry, but this didn't need to be anywhere near 268 pages, given all the repetition. The writing style is very direct and attempts to be poetic, but it comes off as very bland, which, I hate to say, makes it boring.
The two main characters are frequently described by their professions, and how those professions reflect in the personal choices through the story—giving it a clinically narrative.
All things combined:
I’m 70% AI wrote this out.
I really wanted to like this book, but it was extremely bland.
It was simple human error! A story that is so squeaky clean about two lesbians.
Amy a student in her second year at college was broke, forty three dollars broke. Sell her eggs, yep! Lucy a lawyer is desperate in using her last two embryos to have a child. Same office, one technician absent, and a very busy doctor facility. Amy is shown to the wrong room and suddenly instead of withdrawal she is inserted with the last two embryos. OMG! Now what? Enjoy!
Another one I should have checked the ratings before starting. What a terrible POS. AI? maybe. I haven't looked at the author's other books - if there are any - but if so, that'll make two book in as many weeks that were almost certainly AI. (looking at you Breaking Her Protocol)
I was really excited for this one, it had major Jane The Virgin vibes, but it fell a little flat. I didn't feel like the characters had any chemistry, and the dialogue was very robotic. The way they over-discussed their feelings started out sweet, but by the halfway mark, it was tedious. It was like the author was so determined not to have a miscommunication trope that they took it way too far.
This is the most clinical, dry, flat and passion devoid book I have ever read. The monotony of repetition was exhausting. The only reason I kept reading it is because I kept hoping it was gonna build into something more, but it never did. I agree with other reviewers, who suggested that AI was utilized in writing this book because I agree. It doesn’t even feel human. It’s so devoid of any real complexities or emotion.
That’s most of the dialogue in this book. I was *this close* to DNF’ing but kept being hopeful.
The storyline had so much potential, and it started well and then kinda went meh.
I agree with others that this feels like AI. I’d be willing to bet a month of no coffee on it. There’s weird speech patterns, repetitive speech and so many errors. “On a Thursday evening….” And later in the chapter it says “on a Friday morning 2 days later”.
This has been an extraordinarily beautiful story. A very disastrous event whom two separate lives are immediately impacted by an unthinkable mistake. The decisions made with hard honestly and eventual love. The stories or each character are done with extreme care with insights I've never read before. Can it be seen as the autistic nature or something else. A must read.
I don’t really know what happened to this book. The story starts off strong, such as the premise and distinct characters, and then slowly the book goes downhill and doesn't bounce back. I literally couldn’t separate the two characters sometimes. I felt like I was rereading the same chapters, with no chemistry, and on and on it went.
Amy and Lucy are very unique women who are strangers waiting at a fertility clinic. Embryos belonging to Lucy are mistakenly inserted into Amy. Both women are traumatized but rationally come to a decision which changes both of their lives. This is an excellent book that I couldn’t stop reading until the end.
“I had such a great time reading this book. I really loved the story, and honestly, I wish people in real life were as emotionally mature as these characters. It was fun, no dramatic, and super entertaining from start to finish.”
Seemed like AI. Repetitive vocab and sentences. It’s so surface level. The characters discuss the same things over and over. Side characters are so boring. The book lacked emotion and depth. The story line is different which was interesting but that’s about it. So disappointed :/
AI slop. Repetitive and boring. No depth at all. The idea is good but very poorly executed and all over the place. Even the cover doesn't match since the MC goes to USC and not UCLA. Save your time. DNF
Conceptually it was good and tackled the seriousness of starting a family. However the emotional part was very stiff the Main Characters were very formal and stiff not bad but could have been better
This is certainly a different book, especially the author’s distinctive writing style. The plot is interesting as are the two MCs. They’re both people who consider things rather than rush into them, so it’s slow-burn. It’s emotive and I realy enjoyed it.