Thursday, February 6, 2025

*Review* Baby Bank by Sarah Robinson

 

Genre: Romantic Comedy/LGBTQ+
Published: September 19, 2023
Pages: 324


Mila Torres is a successful divorce lawyer by day, stand-up comedian by night and by all accounts—except her mother’s—living a bisexual elder millennial’s dream life in Washington, DC. That is, until she realizes she’s only a year away from hitting the ripe old age of thirty-five and her doctor suggests at her annual pap smear that maybe she should consider freezing her eggs if she wants kids in the future. Except, she doesn’t want a child in the far future…she wants a child right now.

This poses a bit of a problem since she’s ten swipes past single and living Golden Girls style with two of her best friends who work on Capitol Hill and one ornery old cat. That is, until she hears a story from a friend about a free sperm bank online app called Baby Bank. A few margaritas later and Mila has swiped on over fifty sperm donors until she finds the perfect match—handsome, successful, brilliant, everything you’d want your sperm to be.

Now she’s meeting him at a hotel—along with two of her friends for backup—to complete the process. All should have gone smoothly, except when she learns that her sperm donor is the brother of the reporter that Mila has been dodging for months, and that while she originally only wanted this man’s baby, she actually wants his sister, too.

In a comedic story of LGBTQIA+ romance and millennial-specific drama, Mila finds that motherhood and dating are not compatible when you keep it all in the family and that the modern millennial woman might not actually be able to have it all.

The first in a series of standalone lesbian and queer themed romance novels coming to ebook, audiobook, and paperback.



I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review. 

What do you do when you are a fairly high powered attorney, single, lesbian lady in the D.C. area and you want to have a baby? Hop on a sperm donor app of course. I have no clue if an app like that truly exists, but it wouldn't surprise me. I felt like this book demonstrated the possible pros and cons of using such an app pretty well. 

But this isn't just a book about a single woman wanting to have a baby. She is also wrestling with a serious moral dilemma. As an attorney in the D.C. are, she happens to be privy to some bombshell information that a local reporter is anxious to get her hands on based on some recent legislation she's covering. 

Mila's life gets real messy real fast after she pulls the trigger on the sperm exchange. It honestly felt like she just could not catch a break no matter what. But all of her problems highlighted the beauty of found family, which she has in spades. 

Overall I give Baby Bank 4.0736 out of 5 stars. - Katie 




Contemporary Romances Across the Rainbow…

Sarah Robinson (also known as SC Nealy, pronouns: they/them) first started their writing career as a published poet in high school, and then continued in college, winning several poetry awards and being published in multiple local literary journals.

Never expecting to make a career of it, a freelance writing Craigslist job accidentally introduced them to the world of book publishing. Lengthening their writing from poetry to novels, Robinson published their first book through a small press publisher, before moving into self-publishing, and then finally accepting a contract from Penguin Random House two years later. They continued to publish both traditionally and indie with over 18+ novels to their name with publishers like Penguin, Waterhouse Press, Hachette, Forever, Grand Central Publishing, and more. They now also write under the name SC Nealy in non-fiction and children’s spaces.

In their personal life, Sarah Robinson identifies as a queer, non-binary mother of two little girls. They are happily living in Arlington, Virginia where Robinson also works full-time as a psychotherapist with queer individuals and couples.

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