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Summary: A reader
Review: One of the best books I have read in a long time. I was laughing throughout the entire book. It made me laugh, cry, laugh some more,and cry a little more. I loved it and hope her other books are just as funny
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Summary: Laughed and cried at the same time. Excellent book!
Review: This is a very enjoyable and easy to read book.
I couldn't wait to finish it but hated to see it
end. I immediately passed it on to another avid
reader who enjoyed it just as much. It had lots of
passion and was difinatly a page turner. I can't wait to read more by this author.
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Summary: Funny, Funny
Review: This is the first book I have read by Ms. Phillips, and I enjoyed it from cover to cover. The relationship between Cal and Jamie was so fun to watch grow from one end of extreme to the other. Ms. Phillips made her characters so real, I could picture every scene in my mind. I cant wait to read more of Ms. Phillips novels
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Summary: Very romantic, humorous, and a wonderful love story.
Review: I have read Susan Elizabeth Phillip's "Kiss An Angel", "It Had To Be You", and "Heaven, Texas". All of her books are wonderful! Her style of reading is easy to read, romantic, humorous, and exciting. I would highly recommend any of her books!! This book deals with an old football star in another one of her books and a physics professor. It is great!
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Summary: Nobody's Baby But Mine Is An Overall Great Read!
Review: NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE is the first book I've read by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and now I'm sorely tempted to seek out all of her other literary pieces and devour them until I am completely satiated. Her characters are well developed, vivid, and memorable. I read this book, all 438 pages of it in Microsoft's Reader, at one sitting; I just couldn't close my laptop!I was effortlessly persuaded to empathize with the female lead character, an initially reserved, genius physicist, Dr. Jane Darlington, through the author's use of a stark contrast between her and the hardened, promiscuous bartender, Jodie, who 1induces the genius physicist to masquerade as a prostitute and seduce Calvin Bonner, a seemingly stupid pro football quarterback, in an effort to realize her dream of having a baby with someone of low to average intelligence. I was also drawn to the male lead character's heroic tendencies (such as his desire to prevent their baby being born illegitimate), which were in direct contrast to the chauvinistic way in which he treated females in general (dating only young twenty-something-year-olds so he could ignore his impending middle and old age). Jane's requirement that the prospective father be of low to average intelligence was of great import to her, for she needed his genes to counteract her own, so her child would not be a genius/freak like she had been. She desired a normal, loving childhood for her baby and thought that her intelligence requirement would guarantee her baby the childhood she craved but never had. Little did she know that Cal graduated from college with honors, summa cum laude, earning a B.S. in Biology! Nothing works out as Jane plans - getting pregnant is harder than she thought, so she needs to keep up her act and seduce Cal more than once, then just as she relaxed and allowed joy to fill her heart, Jodie, under duress, blabs the entire scheme to Cal, and hating Jane for manipulating him, he threatens to sue her for custody - so much for believing that Cal wouldn't stake some claim to her precious unborn baby! The threat is enough to convince her to agree to Cal's demand that they marry, so the baby would be born legitimate, and then divorce after the baby's birth. In the tradition of great romantic comedies, this book had me vacillating between laughing so hard my side hurt at times - like at reading the Lucky Charms incident, weeping in the depths of despair when it seemed they were destined to keep hurting each other, and turning three shades of red at the embarrassment of Jane's discovery that she was unknowingly parading her naked body in front of her brother-in-law! Despite my being an avid romance novel reader, I was in some doubt of exactly how this book would end. Almost until the very end, I was trying to come up with a workable solution to Jane and Cal's quandary. In the initial chapters, I kept thinking, "Will he ever really forgive her for tricking him into impregnating her?" In the final chapters, I kept thinking, "Will she ever forgive him for refusing the love and commitment she offered him?" It seemed as if, as the saying goes, an unyielding force met an immovable object! The only exception I take with the book is the language. It's not only cheesy, but also superfluous! The story works without the profanity. I cringed every time I came upon the unsavory language. Other than that, however, I thoroughly enjoyed this romantic tale. I'll be looking for Susan Elizabeth Phillips' other works!
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Summary: Mostly good, with some annoying bits
Review: Although I've really enjoyed SEP's other books, including the other Chicago Stars stories, this one left me cold. Even leaving aside the first third (highly unlikely, highly reprehensible, and highly annoying), the chemistry between the two main characters is more about anger than anything else. It left a bad taste in my mouth, even after they "made up" near the end. I like SEP's style, but just wanted to smack both these characters to bring them to their senses.
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Summary: What romance is all about.
Review: I loved this book. This story contained a little of everything. Every element, every feeling that could possibly end upp in a story is here. This book will make you laugh cry and everythign in between. This is what romance is all about. This is why we pick up books to get lost in. Nobody's Baby but Mine is one of the best books that I have read in my life. SEP is now on my auto buy list as I have not been disapointed in any of her storys. I just end up loving her books more and more. Someone told me that Nobody's Baby is one of the best books SEP has come out with. I would have to agree and take it a few steps farther. Its one of the all time best romances out there and I cant say enough about it. I give this book the highest recommendation. GO BUY THIS BOOK. You'll want your own to put on the keeper shelf. Bless Susan and her magical storys. Please, keep 'em commin!!
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Summary: The Geeky Physics Genius and the Hunky Football Star
Review: This is the first book that I have read by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and I liked it alot. Although the plot was far-fetched and a little ridiculous (but, hey!, this is a romance novel!), the characters were well developed and the writing style light and witty.
The heroine of "Nobody's Baby But Mine" is Dr. Jane Darlington, a lonely physics nerd who has just passed her 34th birthday, and--boy!--is her biological clock ticking! Deciding to have a baby and believing that her own miserable childhood was due to her genius level IQ, she wants a healthy and relatively dumb father for her child. Her reasoning is that the baby then would end up with a more normal IQ due to "tendency toward the mean"--(this being probably the most ridiculous part of the book, but necessary for the plot to move forward.) Jane picks out Cal Bonner, hunky football quarterback of the Chicago Stars, after seeing him on TV responding to an interviewer in his "good ol' boy" Southern drawl (hmmmm, obviously a moron.) But Cal is far from the dumb jock that he appears to be, as Jane finds out when he discovers her scheme.
Cal was a pretty great character--gorgeous, sexy, smart, and honorable, but also commitment-phobic and so insecure about his impending middle-age (in a young man's profession) that he never dates any woman over 23 years old. Jane is a pretty good heroine despite her intellectual arrogance and rather unscrupulous initial behavior--an intelligent, witty and lonely woman who is looking for someone to love. The secondary characters are well done as well--particularly Cal's parents and Kevin, the young, cocky second-string quarterback who wants Cal's job.
The plot is improbable but moves along pretty well, and some of the scenes are *very* funny indeed. I particularly liked the initial seduction scene with an inept Jane posing as an call girl and doing calisthenics to "The Flight of the Bumblebee" when a suspicious Cal asks her to dance for him. That (and the rest of that scene) are worth the price of the book.
In summary, this is a sexy, humorous romance with a really dreamy/hunky hero and an unusual plotline.
Recommended!
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Summary: Must Read
Review: This was my first Susan Elizabeth Phillips book and it is amazing. I contains my all-time favorite quote from any romance I have ever read. I don't want to ruin the quote for those of you that haven't read the book, so I'll just say it has to do with cereal. That particular scene in the book had me laughing for days and I still chuckle when I think about it. This book is definitely a must read. It has many laughs and the characters are lovable. I will acknowledge that I don't think many of us would have went to the lengths Jane went to trying to make sure she had a child that wasn't too smart, but her motivation is understandable and explained.
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Summary: please avoid
Review: read all of MS SEP books, from the BOOKS DESCRIPTION i thought this would be another classic. However i was very disappointed. The premise of this novel should a created a captivating tale but i never seemed to peak my interest.
Story is about : A Genius women who wants baby, she seduces a Cal bonner, whom she belives is a dumb jock in order to get pregnant in hopes child wont be a smart like her. Bonner finds out and is determined to make her pay for her desception. throughout the book he's a mean spirited and hateful towards the mother on his child... until he almost loses her Yet i was not propelled to finish the book. I suggest future readers judge for themselves but in my opinion read any other SEP Book instead. READERS SHOULD ALSO TRY SANDRA BROWN< JAYNE ANN KRENTZ.>NORA ROBERTS
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