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The Baby Jackpot (Mills & Boon American Romance) (2013)

by Jacqueline Diamond(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mills & Boon American Romance

series

Safe Harbor Medical

review 1: This was a pretty good book. Of the two main characters I liked Cole best. He started out seeming kind of standoffish, but it turned out he was mostly just clueless. He had been raised by a single mother who was a doctor, but didn't really have a maternal bone in her body. He had never been truly exposed to love and felt like he wouldn't know what it was. Stacy is one of his surgical nurses and he really appreciates what a good job she does. A chance encounter makes him realize he's attracted to her, then a combination of an injury and alcohol causes them to act on that attraction. When Stacy ends up pregnant his first reaction is to propose marriage. He is dismayed by her refusal and stated intention to give the children up for adoption. Though he had never seen ... morechildren as part of his future, the idea really starts to grow on him. He also still feels responsible for Stacy and wants to take care of her. I absolutely loved his way of doing little things to make her life easier and how much he wanted to make it last forever. He really wanted to convince her not to give them up and knew better than to try to pressure her. He also did everything he could to protect her from a media frenzy. I really loved seeing his growth from a somewhat detached doctor to a man who made friends and was able to open up to love. I loved the way that he tried to learn about being romantic from other doctors at the hospital.I spent most of the book just wanting to shake Stacy. Her divorce had devastated her and she was still trying to figure out what she had done wrong to make her husband stop loving her. She wanted children but because of her current feelings she decided to become an egg donor and use that to help someone else have children. She couldn't believe that she ended up getting pregnant, and with someone she saw as totally unromantic. I thought that she had a really unrealistic idea of what love was and how it was shown. She was determined that if she couldn't offer the babies that ideal family herself she would give them up. I really didn't like the way that she gave Cole absolutely no say in the matter. As time went on she came to appreciate his friendship and care, but she still couldn't see that he was showing her his love also. When she finally learned the truth about some of the things she had seen as romantic it was a real eye opener for her. I liked the ending and how she went about her own romantic statement.I enjoyed seeing characters from previous books and how their lives are going now. I also enjoyed the set up for the next book and am looking forward to reading that one.
review 2: I've read these Safe Harbor Medical books faithfully, and I don't expect magic. They are fluff, and that's okay. I like fluff. But the last two I've read have just felt lackluster to me, I don't know how else to explain it. This whole book in some ways felt very rushed, but in others felt like it would never end. The real problem with it for me though is that I didn't like Stacey at all. At. All. I didn't see the chemistry between her and Cole either, but then again, I don't see how anyone would want to be with her. She was a good friend to her friends, and that's nice, but she was a moody snatch to Cole. A fantastic nurse for him, but just selfish and thoughtless when it came to their personal life. Or, what she allowed of one. I get that the way she got preggo didn't lend itself to a lot of dating before they were kinda forced to get to know each other, but she just never gave the guy a chance. And I don't buy that she was still so messed up over her ex husband. It's really no excuse for someone flat out telling a man that they are pregnant, and that he has less than no say in how it's handled beyond that. It's not like he's some bad guy. And for someone who professes to want kids and loves kids, her answer to the whole thing doesn't make any sense. She's a grown-a$$ adult with a good job, a man (who has money too) wants to be there and support her and the babies, and that's what she comes up with? Please. I just don't buy it as a logical reaction, unless you're a moron. Which I suspect she might be. To top it all off, it just felt like it slammed into a wall and ended. One page it's the same old woe-as-me crap from Stacey, and the next page they are going to live happily ever after? Huh? I just... No. Just no. I'm not sure if I'm going to give the next book a chance at this rate. less

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