3.5 - rounded up..
TBH, I have quite the mixed feelings on this one. While I love a single parent romance - there were bits of this book that felt a little too unrealistic for me that took me out of the book.
Nine Month Contract follows Wyatt, one of 4 brothers, who is looking for a surrogate. Wanting to fill in the lonliness and want to be a dad, with not romantic entanglements, he's find it hard to find anyone. Trista, plus size women, who loves animals more than peoples keeps being turned down by clinics due to her size. Enter in Wyatt's niece, who concocts a plan to find her uncle the perfect woman - not just as a surrogate, but for life.
Wyatt is definitely what you would imagine as a mountain man - man of little words but a ton of possessiveness. Trista, while overly bubbly for the most part, has a ton of baggage towards family dynamics due to her past. The two fall into an easy attraction, and I loved all the animals that Trista kept bringing to the mountain. I love the found family aspect, you could feel that the family loved each other. through the pages.
What didn't work for me - the talk of how the surrogacy was going to happen. I'm sure the clumsy set up of how the baby making was going to occur was meant to come off as easy going, but I'm sure it could be a sensitive topic for some readers. It felt very blase for such an important topic.
Thank you so much to Netgalley, HTP HIVE and Amy Daws for an earc in exchange for an honest review.