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As a woman that doesn’t have children and doesn’t intend to, the premise of Goddess Complex sounded interesting. Sanjana has an abortion after her husband gets her pregnant and she doesn’t want to have children. She is then left dealing with being in a position that’s in direct opposition to what women have been told they should want, to be married with children. It’s a stigma that’s dated that makes women question their purpose and self worth if it’s something they don’t want. In Sanjana’s case, her formerly feminist best friend is expecting and then to add insult to injury there’s someone who appears to be masquerading as her that appears to be pregnant by her husband that she isn’t yet divorced from. So naturally, Sanjana decides to go back to India to find her husband and Sanjena, the pretend Sanjana. Then it gets really weird. While it’s plausible it feels surreal, and beyond normal reality. I already wasn’t a fan of Sanjana’s entitlement and behavior (and I still want to know why characters like this are pitched by by marketing publicists as prototypical millennials) but this made the book unappealing to me. By the end it returns to a sense of more normalcy but it was hard to pull myself out of the fever dream of what happened in India. A complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own.