3.5 stars 
 Full review can be found here. 
 The decision to read this book was one of those spur of the moment things. It's a very different sort of story to what I normally read but of course reading is all about expanding your horizons. I'm not the sort of person who really keeps to a limited reading sphere, so I figured I'd take a chance on the book! 
 When Elizabeth falls pregnant, Christian gives her an ultimatum: him or their unborn child. She chooses the child and walks out of his life. Six long years later, a chance meeting between Christian and a young girl draws him into the life that he'd turned his back on, the life that includes fatherhood. A small taste of what he had up until that moment never known is enough to make him crave it and he muscles his way into his daughter's life, despite knowing that Elizabeth is less than comfortable with this change. 
 The story mostly focuses on the excursions that the three of them make as a family, showing the reader just how Christian is growing as a person in order to embrace the new role that he has taken on. He's actually a very interesting character and I enjoyed observing his evolution from spoilt rich kid to doting father, even if I did often find the interactions between Christian and Lizzy (his daughter, not to be confused with Elizabeth, the mother). I suppose this reflects on my relationship with my parents. It's a healthy relationship, but we tend to show our love through actions rather than endless direct proclamations. 
 Elizabeth was another matter entirely. She started off as a woman willing to make a difficult choice and ready to face the consequences of it. Unfortunately, while Christian evolved, I felt that Elizabeth devolved. Christian hurt her and she never got over the pain of his betrayal. I get it. Considering his actions, her reticence around him was taken too far and just ended up as a lot of repetition about how he'll just hurt her again so she should keep her distance - but it's so hard! I lose all respect for her when she held Christian accountable for her actions and made him responsible for them not having sex. When she then takes out all her fears on her daughter while claiming to be protecting her, she became a weak-willed character that was a shadow of the strong woman she'd been; a character I could not stand. 
 I understand why this is in the story but it just didn't work for me personally. What's more, once Elizabeth lost my respect, she failed to regain it before the story ended so I parted ways with her feeling dissatisfied with her character, and because of this ultimately with the story as a whole. 
 My copy of the book also had some formatting issues and I'd come across sentences like: 
 "He could wanted, but it would never change what he discarded us and he had no right in our likes. apologize all he did. He had" 
 Sometimes I could reconstruct these broken sentences but others I had no idea where the fragments were supposed to fit in. I couldn't say for sure whether I missed anything important because of this.