Title: Surprise, Baby!
Standalone Companion Novel to All About the D
Standalone Companion Novel to All About the D
Authors: Lex Martin & Leslie McAdam
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Adult Contemporary
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Blurb
There’s a fine line between lust and hate.
I don’t care that Drew Merritt spent the last year transforming himself from grungy slob to sexy playboy. With messy, dirty blond hair and gorgeous eyes, his looks aren’t the problem.
His mouth is.
And the stupid things that come out of it.
But after an emergency strands us together, and he does his damnedest to take care of me…
Let’s just say there’s one thing we don’t clash on.
And it doesn’t involve talking.
I’ve despised Drew since I met him years ago. One weekend can’t change us that much, can it?
Spoiler alert: It doesn’t.
Except he left me a little keepsake.
And in nine months, I’ll have a surprise for Portland’s most notorious player.
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Review:
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Review:
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
| When the first chapter (or two) of the book is focused on the heroine waking up after a not so good one night stand with a random man and then gets caught sneaking out by the hero who has the panties from 3 different girls in his pocket, how can you like the book? That was a very bad start for me and for a while I kept wondering if the Lawrence, aka the random guy, could be the baby daddy. I didn't buy the way Drew got her pregnant, so I would do a paternity test, just in case. Despite all that, I kept reading and I actually finished the book. What led me to one star was the lack of communication between Kendall and Drew on anything important. I do believe that more pages were dedicated to showing that Drew was a partying manwhore and less on how Kendall and Drew would work things out. There was a time jump of 5.5 months and we found the characters been in a more uncertain position than the one we left them before the time jump. A few spoilers will follow because I need to express myself. Kendall finds out that she is pregnant after half of the book has passed, which was too slow for me. After a while, we got the time jump and Kendall is 35 weeks pregnant. She and Drew are in a very bad place and it was like they had barely spoken. Kendall was always pushing Drew away. She kept rejecting him away up until the end and I didn't get the feeling that she made any effort to have a relationship with Drew. Her actions towards him where the kind you do when you want to someone away and she never spoke about her feelings to him. Drew's feelings for her were believable and I knew that he truly wanted to have a family with her and make an effort to work things out. Her rejection was the reason he didn't make a move sooner and it bothered me. |
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Lex Martin
Lex writes contemporary romance, the sexy kind with lotsa angst, a whole lotta kissing, and the hot happily ever afters. When she's not writing, she lives a parallel life as an English teacher.
She loves printing black and white photos, listening to music on vinyl, and getting lost in a great book. Bitten by wanderlust, she's lived all over the country but currently resides in the City of Angels with her husband and twin daughters.
Lex is represented by Kimberly Brower of Brower Literary & Management.
Leslie McAdam
Leslie McAdam is a California girl who loves romance, Little Dude, and well-defined abs. She lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small orange tree farm in Southern California with her husband and two small children. Leslie always encourages her kids to be themselves - even if it means letting her daughter wear leopard print from head to toe. An avid reader from a young age, she will always trade watching TV for reading a book, unless it's Top Gear. Or football. Leslie is employed by day but spends her nights writing about the men you fantasize about. She's unapologetically sarcastic and notoriously terrible at comma placement.
Always up for a laugh, Leslie tries to see humor in all things. When she's not in the writing cave you'll find her fangirling over Beck, camping with her family, or mixing up oil paints to depict her love of outdoors on canvas.
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