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Summary: CONTRIVED BUT FUNNY
Review: This book was so funny! If you took this book seriously, you would dislike both of them. If you hear the correct inflection, you will laugh out loud then look around to see if anyone heard you. The first meeting of Jane and Cal is preposterous, but go with it and just enjoy the author's sense of humor. There are a few life's lessons in there to make it poignant. Just the part where Jane's walks down the stairs when Cal gets home is hysterical! This book was a good time and I may look for others by this author.
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Summary: Nobodys baby but mine
Review: Nobody's baby but mine is one of the best books around. It has so much passion and love. Its so much based on what is happening these days in our world. I am only 14 years old and i read this 376 page book in 5 days. Most parents know its not easy getting there kids to read. well let me tell u i am the same its impossible to get me to read but i read and when i went for the first time into borders to pick my own book for once i found nobodys baby but mine. I fell in love with it. It made me cry it made me laugh and it also made me think. This book is not only for adults but kids should read it to. It helps you on your vocabulary and reading skills. This book shows you how the poeple speak in certain parts. This book is full of so much love and hate. About a plan that back fires but and so much hate between two people that suddenly turns into true love. U should really read or even better buy this book it was one of the best book i have ever read. I am sure you would say to. I might not have lots of experience but i have read over 400 hundred books since the 4th grade i still have almost every book and i even handed some down but far more Noodys angel but mine is the most romantic and best book i have ever read.
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: I am a big SEP fan and this is the book that got me started. This is honestly the best book I ever read. It is funny, sexy, and heartwarming all at the same time. Nobody's Baby But Mine grabs your attention from the very beginning. It is a real page turner and an excellent book to loose yourself in!!!
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Summary: Usually romance books are so predictable, but....
Review: This book had me weeping with laughter. The premis is pretty flaky, but the characterizations were hysterical. Descriptions of a jock-guy trying to play the part of an incredibly stupid (I mean, really stupid) stereotype jock-guy were great. Descriptions of a brilliant- scientist-woman bumbling her way around in the persona of an 'in-charge, sex scientist' were great. The ending was standard romance-story-ending, and didn't match with the howlingly funny beginning and middle, but altogether, it's an awfully funny book.
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Summary: Contrived plot, with unbelievable characters
Review: It really pains me to be the lone ranger here and give a SEP book such a mediocre rating, but it pained me more to finish the book. The plot seemed overly contrived with a desperate physicist setting out to get "knocked-up" by a dumb jock so that her baby would be "normal." I thought the author used a lot of stereotypes about athletes and southerners even as she condemed her heroine for doing so. For example, Cal, the quarterback was from my home state of N.C. Maybe, I'm being overly sensitive, but to prove that Cal really was smart and not a dumb hick, the author had him graduating from Michigan. SEP, ever heard of Duke or the Univ. of North Carolina?, two of the most prestigious colleges in the country. Although I found a lot of humor in this book and loved the characters of Annie and Lynn, (the secondary plot of Cal's parents was very touching) I couldn't get past how stupid Jane, the genius physicist, and Cal, were. For two smarties, they acted really dumb. I suppose this must have been an attempt at irony but it didn't work. And for someone who was so desperate to have a baby, I think there would have been more mention of her pregnancy along the way. The actual labor and delivery was too unbelievable as well. Don't doctors wash their hands before delivering a baby? And Cal chooses that moment to announce he wants to go to medical school. Yes, I know I'd be thrilled to give birth and have my husband announce plans to be away. Thanks, hon. For me to enjoy a book, I have to respect the hero or heroine or they must redeem themselves. Although, SEP tried, I never felt anything but contempt for both the main characters. Yes, I know we must suspend our imaginations when reading romance, but when one is reading a contemporary, it helps if the plot is at least a little believable. Maybe I am a bit jaded because SEP's previous book, HEAVEN, TEXAS just blew me away. Although the characters were just as mismatched, the story was much believeable and the characters endearing.
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Summary: Hilarious! Touching! Brilliant!
Review: I loved this book! No matter what anyone says, you will enjoy NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE. Especially if you like a good laugh. I could not put this book down. It was so funny, and touching. I would love to see this book as a movie someday. READ IT!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Jane Darlington is a 34 year old genius. She really isn't a very sociable person. She is a very nice person, but always believed that people thought she was weird because she was so smart. Her next door neighbors daughter Jodie comes over to borrow some coffee. She realizes that Jane has been crying and starts trying to find out what is wrong with her besides being a weirdo. Jane confides in the young girl. The young woman for her own selfish reasons tells Jane that she can help her with her problem. Jane's problem was she wanted a child of her own, but didn't want the child's father to have any intelligence whatsoever. She felt is the father was stupid, her child wouldn't be talked about and critized the way she was. Jane sees Cal Bonner and football player and she thought he was stupid because of the way he talked to the interviewer. She said he would be perfect aloud and the young woman said she could set it up. Jane was going to be Cal Bonner's birthday present. They even tied a pink bow around her neck. Jane couldn't believe what she had to do, but I don't think she counted on Cal finding out her little secret.Cal Bonner was nobody's dummy. Yes, he was a football player, but he happened to be one with a degree in Biology. Cal came from a family where the men seemed to get caught up with having to marry a woman because she was pregnant. When he first met Jane, he knew she was no ordinary hooker. He didn't believe she was a hooker at all. He overheard Jodie talking about how she set up his birthday gift. Cal made Jodie tell him who Jane was and everything. He was so mad he could have hurt Jane. He confronted her and made her marry him and that's when the fun starts. I don't want to go on because I know I will give it all away. You will love this book. The characters were good and you could actually visiualize alot of the scenes in the book. This is my second book by Ms. Phillips, the first one was First Lady. I am now trying to find all of her books. She is a good writer and I enjoy her stories. They aren't as heavy with issues as some others I've read recently. I'm glad my friends told me about her.
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Summary: My Favorite
Review: This is my favorite of the Stars football team books. It was also the first one I read. I loved how Cal and Jane found each other's hearts. It was great how she and his mom stood up to their men. I laughed a lot. Heaven, Texas, another Stars book, is pretty darned close to this book as my favorite SEP book. Gosh. I think I'm going to have to dig them all out of my keeper shelf and re-read them. And it won't be the first time I've done that. <G> Find them. Read them. If you have a funny bone at all, you won't be sorry you did.
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Summary: Oh Please Susan!!!
Review: I usually like susan's books..they do get a little too racy for me sometimes..but I like her humor..but this one...I mean..out of nowhere this woman wants a baby and I felt no compassion for her at all..especially when she uses a man because he is "Stupid" if this had been said about a woman there would have been a uproar..I found no liking whatsoever for either character...I mean how selfish can you get..and how could he ever fall in love with her..I mean she lied to him and used him..it only proved one thing he was stupid..please give me a break the premise to this "love story". I felt absolutely nothing except sorry for the child that was created from these two "stupid" people.
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Summary: Fun, sexy and so funny!
Review: I've read hundreds of Krantz, Garwood, Lowell, Cameron, Roberts -- why hadn't I heard of Susan E. Philips???? I just picked up Nobody's Baby But Mine, and was instantly entranced by the thoroughly delightful characters, and laugh-out-loud situations throughout this book. I strongly recommend this book -- and, having read so many romance novels, I'm rather hard to please. And, as a final endorsement, after I read this book, I jumped on line... and ordered three more of her books! You'll not be disappointed with Susan!
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