This started out as a cute, simple book. It follows the main character who has two best friends and one of them gets pregnant by this guy who decides he doesn't want to have a kid. Three girls decide to move in together and raise the baby - very 3 Men and a Baby/Little Lady action - and they all experience the frustrations of raising a baby and being graduate students/professors(?).
PS - because they are all English/Literature majors, they decide to go very literary when naming the baby and name him Atlas... and even though I would love to be able to call my future daughter Scarlett, that just seems a bit much for me.
The end of the book was when it got a little weird for me - I felt that there was some serious character mangling and that the author let them go outside of their normal behavior for the sake of drama. Basically the kid's dad comes back into the picture and the kid's mom decides she is going to cut her friends out of their lives and make a sudden home with this guy. I thought her freak out was a little out of character for how she'd been built up but I guess everyone has a little crazy hiding in them.
The hardest part for me was the main character's struggle. The baby's mother was constantly relying on her friends to raise her baby and pretty much taking advantage of them so they got really attached to the baby. When the mom started going psycho, they made her start taking all responsibility ... it was a hard position of "make the mom mature and deal with her own problems because she is being a bitch to her friends" or "be with the baby." I reaaaaallly hate those positions because it always feels like there is no way to win and either way you feel like screaming. When the character did the mature thing and helped take care of the baby, I was proud of her but the anger at the friend made my stomach wrench. (I might get too involved in the books I read).
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