The Best Worst Thing

The Best Worst Thing

By:

Lauren Okie

Spice Scale
Number of books
1 Published
KU
✅
Audiobook
✅
Series Status
Complete
Interconnected
N/A
Overall Rating
Coming Soon

"Lauren Okie is one of my favorite new voices in romance."
- B.K. Borison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good Spirits

From a stunning new voice in romance, Lauren Okie's The Best Worst Thing is an intimate story about starting over, second chances, and two people who cannot help falling into each other's orbit once again.

All things considered, Nicole Speyer has a pretty amazing life. At least that's what she tells herself. She's got a beautiful house, a relatively successful fertility podcast, and a perfect husband, Gabe. The only thing that's less than ideal is her years-long struggle with infertility--and how, with every passing day, she and Gabe seem to drift a little further apart.

But then, mere hours after a Hail Mary embryo transfer to her gestational carrier, Nicole discovers Gabe's been sleeping with their dog walker, and her world turns upside down. Suddenly, a jobless, childless, and now-husbandless Nicole finds herself at the doorstep of somebody she tried to say goodbye to a long time ago.

Logan Milgram: a former colleague with serious golden retriever energy who happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, a colossal nerd, and legitimately kind of hot. When Logan opens his door that night, it's like no time has passed. And as they fall back into each other's lives, Nicole starts recognizing herself in the mirror again. She even begins to like what she sees. And then, like a cruel joke, she gets the news she's spent a lifetime waiting for: her surrogate is finally pregnant.

As her relationship with Logan develops from a blast-from-the-past fling into something much deeper, Nicole struggles to balance her past, present, and future. Racing against the clock, she must learn to forgive her body for falling short and recognize that sometimes, it's the biggest betrayals in life that set us free. With everything on the line, can Nicole accept love from the greatest man she's ever known . . . even if it's nothing like the story she'd written for herself?

Jamie’s review

Wowwww consider my obsessed. I can't believe how good this was. My face the entire time was like 🥹🥰☺️🤭 FUNNY, spicy, heart wrenching, adorable, angry, all the feels. One of the best romance books I've read in awhile!

I think the friends to lovers trope is one of my favorites because of books like this. It's so fun to already know each other so well before the romance starts. The banter is even better because they can give each other so much shit!

Definitely check your trigger warnings though, there are some very real, very heavy topics in here, specifically around infertility.