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3.75 AVERAGE
Absolutely incredible
Wow. I didn’t think I’ve fully processed my feelings about this book but DAMN it’s so good!!!! And it was one of those where there was just so much going on that I want like a 2hr Fated Mates deep dive into the work SEP is doing here❤️ I just love Cal and Jane! They’re just deliciously real and terrible people. And everyone else is so well done too!! I have nothing but wonderful things to say
Wow. I didn’t think I’ve fully processed my feelings about this book but DAMN it’s so good!!!! And it was one of those where there was just so much going on that I want like a 2hr Fated Mates deep dive into the work SEP is doing here❤️ I just love Cal and Jane! They’re just deliciously real and terrible people. And everyone else is so well done too!! I have nothing but wonderful things to say
The geekiest adult romance book ever!
The story was quite boring and awkward at first, but when the setting moved from Chicago to North Carolina, it took a spectacular turn.
The chemistry is awesome. It is so different from any thing of the same genre. It reminds me so much of the movie The proposal since it features a knowledgeable grandma and a couple of beloved parents with their own romance that is surprisingly cute, including Kevin, a guy who I would love to have a book for himself.
Rating: 4.75/5
The story was quite boring and awkward at first, but when the setting moved from Chicago to North Carolina, it took a spectacular turn.
The chemistry is awesome. It is so different from any thing of the same genre. It reminds me so much of the movie The proposal since it features a knowledgeable grandma and a couple of beloved parents with their own romance that is surprisingly cute, including Kevin, a guy who I would love to have a book for himself.
Rating: 4.75/5
I love this book. I have no idea how many times I've read it, but I enjoy it every single time.
This book made me laugh out loud and shed a few tears, and it deserves its rating purely for evoking both ends of the emotional spectrum.
The set up to this book is ridiculous. I never thought I'd call a genius physicist too stupid to live, but girl come on. Your child being smart isn't the end of the world and genetics don't work in a way where a stupid father would guarantee an average child. I wish the author had dug a little deeper to find a better motivation here - maybe she wanted a child who would be good at sports, maybe she doesn't trust sperm banks, maybe she actually met him and made a spur of the moment decision. The idea that she would wear a bow and pretend to be a prostitute? On its face ridiculous.
But I'm always a sucker for an inconvenient baby plot line so I was happy to go along with it. Having said that, the pregnancy always felt like more the set up than the plot. Jane gets forgiven pretty quickly by everyone. Cal's mad, but he decides he likes her and somehow that resolves the extremely morally questionable decision Jane made. I would have liked something of an apology, or a realization even of how bad her actions truly were. Like if she was really hit over the head with Cal's parents' situation and "got" that this wasn't just morally bad but specifically hurt him.
Lots of head-hopping going on, but that's the era for you. Honestly I enjoyed the Cal's parents subplot more than I was expecting and it likely wouldn't have worked if there was no head-hopping.
I found Jane's love quite sudden and was kind of with Cal being shell-shocked by it. There was a time jump in the book through most of the "good" part of their relationship, so it probably felt more sudden than it was. I would have liked a scene or two in there to show us how close they were becoming.
I liked that none of the characters ended up being a true villain. I especially liked the three generations of women ganging up together at the end to demand better, but also that the men were all redeemable.
All in all, totally unbelievable, but fun nevertheless.
The set up to this book is ridiculous. I never thought I'd call a genius physicist too stupid to live, but girl come on. Your child being smart isn't the end of the world and genetics don't work in a way where a stupid father would guarantee an average child. I wish the author had dug a little deeper to find a better motivation here - maybe she wanted a child who would be good at sports, maybe she doesn't trust sperm banks, maybe she actually met him and made a spur of the moment decision. The idea that she would wear a bow and pretend to be a prostitute? On its face ridiculous.
But I'm always a sucker for an inconvenient baby plot line so I was happy to go along with it. Having said that, the pregnancy always felt like more the set up than the plot. Jane gets forgiven pretty quickly by everyone. Cal's mad, but he decides he likes her and somehow that resolves the extremely morally questionable decision Jane made. I would have liked something of an apology, or a realization even of how bad her actions truly were. Like if she was really hit over the head with Cal's parents' situation and "got" that this wasn't just morally bad but specifically hurt him.
Lots of head-hopping going on, but that's the era for you. Honestly I enjoyed the Cal's parents subplot more than I was expecting and it likely wouldn't have worked if there was no head-hopping.
I found Jane's love quite sudden and was kind of with Cal being shell-shocked by it. There was a time jump in the book through most of the "good" part of their relationship, so it probably felt more sudden than it was. I would have liked a scene or two in there to show us how close they were becoming.
I liked that none of the characters ended up being a true villain. I especially liked the three generations of women ganging up together at the end to demand better, but also that the men were all redeemable.
All in all, totally unbelievable, but fun nevertheless.
This book was quite a dee-sas-ter. I really liked the first book in this series, so I gave this a go but the first fourth of the book required so much suspension of disbelief that I could only really bear to power read/skim through the rest because my trust in the author to carry this story through was broken after that.
The premise of the book is fun enough—a physicist wants to have a baby, football player gives her baby—but the insane jumps in logic took the book from "sweet and potentially wacky romcom" to "this is psychotic" in a heartbeat. That a SCIENTIST—someone who understands ethics—tries to get herself pregnant with the hero by tampering with condoms and lying about her motivations is irredeemable to me and not very funny! It's a miracle (and so unrealistic) that the hero wouldn't take her ass to court immediately after finding out what she does.
The only redeemable thing about this book is that SEP really knows how to write characters that have explosive chemistry and feel believably like enemies when the books start.
The premise of the book is fun enough—a physicist wants to have a baby, football player gives her baby—but the insane jumps in logic took the book from "sweet and potentially wacky romcom" to "this is psychotic" in a heartbeat. That a SCIENTIST—someone who understands ethics—tries to get herself pregnant with the hero by tampering with condoms and lying about her motivations is irredeemable to me and not very funny! It's a miracle (and so unrealistic) that the hero wouldn't take her ass to court immediately after finding out what she does.
The only redeemable thing about this book is that SEP really knows how to write characters that have explosive chemistry and feel believably like enemies when the books start.
I would’ve never picked this up on my own if my friends weren’t raving about it. And to be fair, no one said it was an objectively good book. Just highly entertaining, and this book definitely had that going for it. It’s kind of like a car crash that you can’t look away from.
The plot is bonkers, let’s start there. Jane is a genius with a very high IQ and desperately wants a baby. But since she was teased for being too smart as a kid, she wants the father of her baby to be dumber than a box of rocks to even it out and give her child an IQ in a normal range. So she tricks an NFL player named Cal into knocking her up and when he finds out, he demands to marry her to punish her for it.
Bonkers, right?
I’ve been known to read romances with ridiculous plot lines so I would’ve been fine with this if it were written well, but it wasn’t. There were SO many eyeroll moments and lines that sounded like they could’ve been lifted right out of The Young and The Restless soap opera that my nana used to watch every weekday at 11am. (she sabatoged his lucky charms and he legit called her a cereal killer).
Not only that, but the characters were so one dimensional and had zero depth to them. I saw no character growth at all from page 1 to page 375, but I kept reading in hopes that they would anyway. Cal is such a macho man, it’s disgusting. The constant references to women over 25 being old, the exclamation marks during every argument, and the weird sex scenes with questionable consent all was just too much for me. Also halfway through this book the author decided to focus on Cal’s parents for some odd reason? Like the POV switched to them for a few chapters seemingly out of the blue and I did not care at all for their backstory or their problems.
I still love my book friends dearly and I’m glad to have read this so I don’t experience FOMO anymore. But I can’t say that I liked this book
The plot is bonkers, let’s start there. Jane is a genius with a very high IQ and desperately wants a baby. But since she was teased for being too smart as a kid, she wants the father of her baby to be dumber than a box of rocks to even it out and give her child an IQ in a normal range. So she tricks an NFL player named Cal into knocking her up and when he finds out, he demands to marry her to punish her for it.
Bonkers, right?
I’ve been known to read romances with ridiculous plot lines so I would’ve been fine with this if it were written well, but it wasn’t. There were SO many eyeroll moments and lines that sounded like they could’ve been lifted right out of The Young and The Restless soap opera that my nana used to watch every weekday at 11am. (she sabatoged his lucky charms and he legit called her a cereal killer).
Not only that, but the characters were so one dimensional and had zero depth to them. I saw no character growth at all from page 1 to page 375, but I kept reading in hopes that they would anyway. Cal is such a macho man, it’s disgusting. The constant references to women over 25 being old, the exclamation marks during every argument, and the weird sex scenes with questionable consent all was just too much for me. Also halfway through this book the author decided to focus on Cal’s parents for some odd reason? Like the POV switched to them for a few chapters seemingly out of the blue and I did not care at all for their backstory or their problems.
I still love my book friends dearly and I’m glad to have read this so I don’t experience FOMO anymore. But I can’t say that I liked this book
Nobody's Baby But Mine begins when Doctor Jane Darlington meets a young woman on her birthday. Jane isn't having such a good day, and she is depressed and lonely. After, having spent the day with this woman named Jodi they come up with a crazy scheme to get Jane pregnant. But she wants to get knocked up by none other than the famous foot ball player Cal Bonner. Jane sets on this quest, and even though at times she feels guilt, she still goes through with it.
But when Cal finds out about this awful scheme things get tricky. And Jane can't get rid of Cal now. These two must tough if out to figure out what they are going to do in their future. It will be the ride of their lives.
The book was extremely good! Although it made me pretty sad through half of it. I enjoyed the whole plot line right from the start, but it took a little bit to learn to like the characters. Mainly because I didn't like some of the things both the hero and heroine did through out the story, but eventually I learned to love them both!
Jane was a funny, very smart woman who made a lot of stupid choices. And Cal was a stubborn hot headed alpha male who couldn't figure out what he wanted till it was almost too late.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching these two get together, and I was also excited to see the side romance in the story as well!
This book made me laugh, cry, and become extremely frustrated with the characters, but I very much enjoyed it all!
But when Cal finds out about this awful scheme things get tricky. And Jane can't get rid of Cal now. These two must tough if out to figure out what they are going to do in their future. It will be the ride of their lives.
The book was extremely good! Although it made me pretty sad through half of it. I enjoyed the whole plot line right from the start, but it took a little bit to learn to like the characters. Mainly because I didn't like some of the things both the hero and heroine did through out the story, but eventually I learned to love them both!
Jane was a funny, very smart woman who made a lot of stupid choices. And Cal was a stubborn hot headed alpha male who couldn't figure out what he wanted till it was almost too late.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching these two get together, and I was also excited to see the side romance in the story as well!
This book made me laugh, cry, and become extremely frustrated with the characters, but I very much enjoyed it all!