A review by steca2
Out On a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young

funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I never thought I’d like the accidental pregnancy trope but I’m starting to think I do? I really enjoyed this book. It was so funny (literally found myself loudly laughing out loud multiple times) and so so sweet, and the disability representation was done really well.   My only complaint

is that once Win and Bo say I love you

the slow and tender pacing that I LOVED goes out the window and we have multiple time jumps that felt like extended epilogues. I understand that if she kept at the pace she was going, that the book would have been 1000 pages, but when reading it

I wasn’t paying attention to the weeks so I didn’t realize until looking at the chapters again that most of the book takes place between week 15 and week 20. It was only 5 weeks of them living together before they were in love  so I feel selfishly robbed that the reader didn’t get to see more of the last half of her pregnancy and birth! I feel like a toddler stomping my foot but I just loved the characters and wanted more! 

There was no more tension — and not saying a book needs a major conflict — but I felt like it needed a little something.  Like a run in with Cora to humanize her and allow the reader to see why Bo was in love with her for so long/lay the groundwork for a spinoff?  Just a little something to make it feel like there was still a plot in the time jumps because I just wanted so much more.

I wanted to see them in a relationship before August was born and working through that in more than a handful of happily ever after scenes.

Aside from that, this was a cozy, genuine romance that I just wanted to curl up with and read for days. The humor was top tier and their banter felt realistic and so well done. I want to find myself a Bo Durand