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Her Two Dads (2010)

by Ariel Tachna(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1615814132 (ISBN13: 9781615814138)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press LLC

review 1: Sri is shocked to learn that his best friend has died in childbirth. Since he was the sperm donor, he is forced to make a decision--keep baby Sophie or give her up for adoption. After holding the infant, he just can't bring himself to give her up. He takes her home and doesn't really have a clue what he needs to do for her, but he loves her. With the help of his Jaime, his housemate, he learns to care for his daughter. Along the way, he and Jaime realize that they have feelings for each other.Ariel Tachna's story hit all the right notes for me. The main focus of the book is Sri and Jaime's endeavor to create a family for Sophie. I was impressed with the way that the author allowed their relationship to build before having them become intimate with each other. That ... moreis something that I think a single parent who is really concerned about how his relationship would affect his child would do. The most important aspect of the story wasn't sex; it was creating a family.Also, the two men aren't perfect. They have their disagreements and their worries. This book could have made everything about being a first-time father and building a relationship look easy, but it didn't. By the end of the book, though, the reader knows that this is one family that will be together no matter what.
review 2: I gave up on this book during the interminable baby store visit in which the author went on for pages and pages and pages about baby supplies and the best brands to use. If I wanted that kind of info dump, I'd buy a non-fiction book about how to care for a newborn.It also really bothered me, at least to the point where I stopped reading, that there was absolutely no mention of possibly going to Jill's home to see what supplies for Sophie she had already bought, if she had papers about how she wanted Sophie to be cared for in the event of her death, etc. There was at least one mention of her friends but nothing suggesting that they might want to know what happened to her daugher. And as far as I know, Sri didn't even bother to go to her funeral.I'm beginning to think The Inventor's Companion, which I loved, was an aberration, because everything else I've read by Tachna has been so disappointing. less

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