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A review by lostinbooklandia
Child of Mine by Karen Grey
5.0
*** AUDIOBOOK REVIEW ***
Who doesn’t love a secret baby, second chance romance?!? Karen Grey’s Child of Mine, book 4 in the Boston Classic Series was a beautiful, charming, funny, and captivating story. I was hooked from the start. This book is set in the late 80s and beautifully paints a picture of life at that time. Bella and Henry have a passionate one night stand and years later reunite when they both work as producers on a reboot of a children’s show. Henry finds out he fathered Bella’s child, which is funny because he comes off as a grump who hates kids. It was so interesting and sweet to see his transformation and developing relationship with his daughter Lilah, into a loving, understanding, patient father. Bella has her own past demons she is still struggling to accept but with the help of Henry and her family she finally gets the closure she’s always needed. Let’s not forget Lilah, she was girl after my own heart, she spoke to my inner bookworm and she was just the cutest. I loved characters were very relatable and likable.
I found this story even more entertaining with the incredible narration by Erin Mallon as Bella and Tom Taylorson as Henry. Erin Mallon is a favorite voice to listen to and I loved how she was able to showcase all the different facets of Bella, especially her inner dialogue in the forms of Izzy, her younger innocent self vs Quinn, her sassy, bad girl, wild self. Tom Taylorson is a new to me narrator and his voice was just dreamy. He was wonderful as Henry and really captured all the emotions perfectly. His southern drawl was swoon worthy and the cherry on top to make Henry a dreamboat. The best part of the audiobook was all the tabloid Soap Opera headlines that reminded me of when I was a child obsessed with the soap opera Passions, which I had no business in watching, lol. That definitely added to the nostalgia of this 80s classic story. This was a 5 stars for me. This review doesn’t do this audiobook justice, but this is a must listen! You will not regret it.
Who doesn’t love a secret baby, second chance romance?!? Karen Grey’s Child of Mine, book 4 in the Boston Classic Series was a beautiful, charming, funny, and captivating story. I was hooked from the start. This book is set in the late 80s and beautifully paints a picture of life at that time. Bella and Henry have a passionate one night stand and years later reunite when they both work as producers on a reboot of a children’s show. Henry finds out he fathered Bella’s child, which is funny because he comes off as a grump who hates kids. It was so interesting and sweet to see his transformation and developing relationship with his daughter Lilah, into a loving, understanding, patient father. Bella has her own past demons she is still struggling to accept but with the help of Henry and her family she finally gets the closure she’s always needed. Let’s not forget Lilah, she was girl after my own heart, she spoke to my inner bookworm and she was just the cutest. I loved characters were very relatable and likable.
I found this story even more entertaining with the incredible narration by Erin Mallon as Bella and Tom Taylorson as Henry. Erin Mallon is a favorite voice to listen to and I loved how she was able to showcase all the different facets of Bella, especially her inner dialogue in the forms of Izzy, her younger innocent self vs Quinn, her sassy, bad girl, wild self. Tom Taylorson is a new to me narrator and his voice was just dreamy. He was wonderful as Henry and really captured all the emotions perfectly. His southern drawl was swoon worthy and the cherry on top to make Henry a dreamboat. The best part of the audiobook was all the tabloid Soap Opera headlines that reminded me of when I was a child obsessed with the soap opera Passions, which I had no business in watching, lol. That definitely added to the nostalgia of this 80s classic story. This was a 5 stars for me. This review doesn’t do this audiobook justice, but this is a must listen! You will not regret it.