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A review by bonnieg
A Baby for the Billionaire by Victoria Davies
4.0
I almost did not post this book because I was so embarrassed to have read something with this title. My GR friends know that I am reasonably (or perhaps unreasonably) shameless in posting books here, owning up to reading, and even sometimes liking, things ridiculous, things smutty, and things very very basic. Truth be told there are only two one books I can recall deciding not to post due to embarrassment, but this almost became book three. Apparently I will admit to the smutty, but not the Hallmark-y or blatantly consumerist. But not posting was doing a disservice to a hard-working writer who put together a very solid genre romance just because her publisher gave it a terrible title, and that seemed unfair.
The book is really charming. Walker and Clara have been best friends since they met in college 10 years earlier when Walker dated Clara's roommate. Both came from troubled families from whom they were estranged and they became each other's families. Ten years later Clara is a hard-working journalist and Walker is a tech billionaire, and they remain the most important people in one another's lives as they casually date others but never commit to anyone but each other emotionally. Both fear the risk of losing the other and so they never pursue romantic partnership. Then one day someone leaves a baby on Walker's stoop saying it is his - there is no signature on the note, and apparently Walker is enough of a fuckboy that he is not sure whom the mother would be based on the age of the child. (I believe he narrows it down to a few options, but maybe I made that up.) He calls Clara, who had many younger siblings she was charged with raising so knows about babies, to come save him. She moves in for 3 weeks, and during that time as they each fall in love with the baby they lose the will to resist their love for one another. There are hurdles, but this is fairly low angst. The sex is sexy but not particularly graphic and the set up is fun, but the best part of this was the conversation between Walker and Clara. They are smart, and funny, but it is not just flirty banter like in most romances (which I often love, this is not an insult to that), it is fun and loving friend conversation and the dialogue sounds like real people actually talking to to one another. I also loved Clara's boss/friend and the person they hire as a nanny. There are some imperfect things. The baby's bio mother behaves in ways that do not ring true and Walker has a lot of free time for a billionaire who is still supposedly running a company, but overall this was fun and diverting. I am reading a very complicated book as my main read right now, and my sidepiece romances are a necessary escape -- this one did the job nicely.
The book is really charming. Walker and Clara have been best friends since they met in college 10 years earlier when Walker dated Clara's roommate. Both came from troubled families from whom they were estranged and they became each other's families. Ten years later Clara is a hard-working journalist and Walker is a tech billionaire, and they remain the most important people in one another's lives as they casually date others but never commit to anyone but each other emotionally. Both fear the risk of losing the other and so they never pursue romantic partnership. Then one day someone leaves a baby on Walker's stoop saying it is his - there is no signature on the note, and apparently Walker is enough of a fuckboy that he is not sure whom the mother would be based on the age of the child. (I believe he narrows it down to a few options, but maybe I made that up.) He calls Clara, who had many younger siblings she was charged with raising so knows about babies, to come save him. She moves in for 3 weeks, and during that time as they each fall in love with the baby they lose the will to resist their love for one another. There are hurdles, but this is fairly low angst. The sex is sexy but not particularly graphic and the set up is fun, but the best part of this was the conversation between Walker and Clara. They are smart, and funny, but it is not just flirty banter like in most romances (which I often love, this is not an insult to that), it is fun and loving friend conversation and the dialogue sounds like real people actually talking to to one another. I also loved Clara's boss/friend and the person they hire as a nanny. There are some imperfect things. The baby's bio mother behaves in ways that do not ring true and Walker has a lot of free time for a billionaire who is still supposedly running a company, but overall this was fun and diverting. I am reading a very complicated book as my main read right now, and my sidepiece romances are a necessary escape -- this one did the job nicely.