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Third Wheel

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Wow. Not what I expected at all!! Much better!

Taylor Taft has had her share of abusive and unhealthy relationships. After breaking up with her latest disaster, John, she decides to take a break on dating. Her two best friends have come back into her life now that her controlling ex is history and she couldn't be happier.

Kennedy and Jackson are having problems conceiving a baby. Due to Kennedy's previous eating disorders, her body can't carry a child nor produce eggs for artificial insemination. When they ask Taylor to be their surrogate, Kennedy takes advantage of both her best friend and husband. She does the unthinkable and both Taylor and Jackson suffer from the consequences and aftereffects of her selfishness while she starts alienating herself from both the pregnancy, her best friend, and her husband.

This is a definite must read!

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Summary – this book centers around three characters, Taylor Taft, Kennedy and Jackson Hayes. All are friends that grew up together. Taylor is a school teacher in the Chicago area. She was orphaned by both of her biological parents and ends up being raised by Jackson’s parents. Early in life Taylor experiences hardships and abusive relationships with men and decides to focus on her career and studies to accomplish her dreams only she can’t seem to find the right person to spend her life with because she is attracted to the wrong men. She has a good heart and decides on giving an ultimate gift to her two best friends. Kennedy is the wife of Jackson and best friend of Taylor. She and Taylor attended the same college and have shared many secrets over the years and are so close that they are almost like sisters. Kennedy has struggled with anorexia and bulimia over the years which have destroyed her body and has additional secrets which will cause her to make life changing decisions that really will have you on the edge of your seat. Finally, there's Jackson, the loving devoted husband of Kennedy and Taylor’s big brother (his parents adopted Taylor when she was a child). Jackson, like his wife, has also made many life changing decisions that he struggles with from day-to-day. It is not easy for him to express his feelings.and he cannot see clearly even when scenarios are playing out directly in front of him.

This book was amazing. It took me a little while to warm up to in the beginning and I literally could not put it down. The characters were realistic and they will keep your attention throughout!

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I received advanced readers copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I want to say thank you also to Haley Rhoades, who is the author of this amazing book.

This was the book which I couldn't put down, so that means that I read this in one evening/night. There were quite interesting characters, but maybe I needed something more. Maybe something was missing. Not sure why I have this feelings, but maybe somerhings happened with odd timings or someone seems missing. Not sure. Maybe this books need to be longer and tells more some cases, but this wasn't bad.

There were characters which feels like my own friends but some how there was also part of me, who thinks that I need more. I'm not sure if this book or series, whatever, was first book/books which author have write, but it feels like that. Maybe more emotions or more writing how those things what happend made that X thing happen etc. But I liked this book.

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I can't review or rate this book, I didn't like it at all. I really feel that it needs to be fixed, a lot, the potential was there so much in the beginning, then it didn't reach it. The author spent too much time over mundane details about the main character's day, and zero time building relationships and emotions, I felt like I was reading a play by play of the characters day, and there wasn't anything else. I was blindsided by the "feelings" between the two characters, and the lack of between the other, the arguments I didn't get to read, and the confrontation I felt like should have happened, none of that happened, even the ending that was supposed to have been sad, felt like an afterthought. More emotion was needed. I didn't feel anything except anger at what happened between the two characters that was orchestrated by Kennedy and the fact that it was an afterthought too.

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