His Best Friend's Offer: A why choose, MMF Pregnancy Romance

🩷Plus size FMC 💛Bi awakening 🩷Found family 💛Pregnancy romance 🩷Friends to lovers 💛One bed 🩷Husbands best friend 💛Why choose This was such a good read. A hard read in some places especially if you’ve dealt with infertility. Nate and Nora have been trying for many years to get pregnant with no luck. With such a solid relationship with Nate’s best friend they ask him for help. I love the story line, the 3 of them finding their groove.

“His Best Friend’s Offer” by Annie Charme is a bold, swoony contemporary romance about one woman, two best friends, and a three-way situation that’s as messy as it is tender. In it, Nora and her husband Nate have been struggling to conceive — a deeply emotional journey that hits hard from page one. After discovering Nate is unable to biologically father a child, their trusted best friend Evan unexpectedly volunteers to help them start a family… the old-fashioned way, not through a kit or clinic. What begins as a practical (if unconventional) arrangement soon blurs into something far more complex, full of longing, jealousy, and emotional stakes that go way beyond baby-making. What really worked for me? The emotional heft. The author doesn’t shy away from the raw heartbreak of infertility — you feel Nora’s monthly setbacks in your chest, and there were moments where I literally remembered my own experiences and thought, “Yep, I’ve been there.” The scene after a failed attempt had me curling up with the book like it was a warm blanket wrapped around a bruise. The beautifully written vulnerability of each character is a major strength: Nate’s fierce, loving determination, Evan’s quiet steadfastness, and Nora’s heartbreaking courage all ring true. You can tell Charme put her whole heart into their internal lives. That said, the love triangle dynamic might not be for every reader. Some plot beats (the tension, the shifting boundaries) occasionally leaned on familiar tropes that…

This book was well written, sexy, engaging, and had just the right amount of conflict resolution!! I loved every minute of it.

5+++ Stars (or in this case 5 Trios of Rings) This book is an exceptional example of how True Love exists in many shapes, sizes, and forms. It truly warmed my heart and soul. In this book we meet Nora. Nora is a sweet, plus-sized or as I say fluffy, woman. Nora wants to please everyone yet forgets that she is important too. In pleasing everyone around her, in trying to be small for society, in trying to be quiet, in worrying about how she looks, in hiding what she truly wants and desires she loses herself. The one thing Nora thinks she wants is a child. Yet getting help in conceiving as a fluffy woman is nigh impossible. Everyone tells her she must lose weight, she must eat this, do that, on, and on, and on. The struggle almost breaks her. Yet Nora thinks that by having a baby she can fill the hole in her heart and soul. But can she? Then we meet Nate. Nate is a teddy bear of a man. Large and also fluffy. Like a teddy bear he is sweet, kind, caring, and he loves Nora with his whole heart and soul. As her husband and significant other the struggle to conceive is also tearing him apart. He has been with Nora since Uni, or college, and he would give her the world if he could. However, like Nora he also is trying to be what society says a husband, a man, must be. He throws himself into their business to prove he can be a good husband, a good man. Like Nora he thinks having a child will complete him and also her. Yet will it? Now… drumroll please… cue EVAN. Evan looks like…

His Best Friend’s Offer by Annie Charme Releasing May 14 This one surprised me in a lot of ways. Yes, it’s steamy but the parts that kept me turning pages weren’t the spice. It was Nora, Nate, and Evan together. The tenderness and the longing. The way this messy, complicated situationship becomes something that looks a whole lot like family. As a plus-size woman who’s lived through infertility, so much of Nora and Nate’s journey hit close to home. The month‑after‑month heartbreak, the doctor visits, the lack of real answers… it all felt painfully familiar. I wasn’t thrilled with how the parents reacted to the throuple or the baby, but I did love how their friends and coworkers showed up with understanding and support. And honestly, seeing two men love, desire, and cherish a plus-size woman and each other with so much softness was everything. That’s the representation I’ll always show up for! I will say the book felt long for me. At 497 pages, I found myself wanting more movement in the “in‑between” moments while the throuple was figuring out their relationship. The main plot really centers on the three of them navigating their feelings and trying to get Nora pregnant, and outside of that there isn’t much additional plot. I definitely think it could have been tighter. Tropes: 💛 Why Choose (MMF) 💛 Bi Awakening 💛 Found Family 💛 Pregnancy Romance 💛 Friends to Lovers 💛 One Bed 💛 It’s Always Been You ARC Review - All thoughts are my own.