A review by weecha22
Joint Custody by Jackie Logsted, Lauren Baratz-Logsted

2.0

I’m a little shocked something like this was picked up by a major publisher. It’s such a weird idea. I read it only because I thought it was my fave trope (relationship in trouble). It was not. It’s not really a romance at all because *spoiler* they end up with different people. And because the pov is a dog it’s really limited. The story itself might have made an interesting womens fiction or something had it been from the woman’s pov but because it’s the dog, it’s so surface level. I appreciated the things keeping them apart became insurmountable. They’re different people. But honestly, I think what the story is saying—that you should be with someone like you (and it is saying that. The other couple are carbon copies) is absolutely wrong. I’m an editor/bookish person and I am married to a scientist who doesn’t read. He’s the one who drags me to places and sometimes I hate it and sometimes I end up liking it. And sometimes I don’t go at all. That the guy apparently couldn’t go anywhere and had such anxiety seemed like he needed therapy and maybe some anxiety meds. I have anxiety but not to that level. But If I did, I don’t think the solution would be to find someone as introverted and anxiety-ridden as myself so we could stay in all the time.