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Summary: Suspend disbelief and enjoy!
Review: "Maybe Baby" is a charming contemporary debut from Elaine Fox, veteran writer of historical and time-travel romances.While "Baby" requires the reader to suspend a certain amount of disbelief, the characters are appealing and the plotline is humorous. Delaney's adventures are sure to bring a smile to your face, and Jack is a great, supportive hero. This isn't a particularly deep or sophisticated book, but it's a fun summer read. Enjoy!
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Summary: cute, engaging!!!!
Review: Delaney on a job interview in a small town in Maine, indulges in a one night stand (something she has never done) with the 'Magic Man' and despite precautious she ends up expecting. Suddenly, she regrets they did not bother to observed prelimaries - like exchanging names and telephone numbers. Even though she is facing being life as new doctor, she quickly adapts and enjoys her role as new mother. 6 months after the baby is born she moves back to the small down in Maine, still expecting to never see the baby's father since she believed he was passing through. Instead, as she quickly discovers since he is her first patient, that he has always lived in the town. Since the 34 year old father of her child is standing there with his 19 year bimbo cheerleader girlfriend, she panics and says she is married. Worse, she discovers he is the landlord of her new residence! The lie grows and grows until she finds herself buying clothes and creating magazine subscripts in the 'husbands' name, trying to convince Jack that she is married. It is often a little stretched, and you really wonder if someone would go to these extremes, but Fox's writing makes the whole thing enjoyable!
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Summary: cute, engaging!!!!
Review: Delaney on a job interview in a small town in Maine, indulges in a one night stand (something she has never done) with the 'Magic Man' and despite precautious she ends up expecting. Suddenly, she regrets they did not bother to observed prelimaries - like exchanging names and telephone numbers. Even though she is facing being life as new doctor, she quickly adapts and enjoys her role as new mother. 6 months after the baby is born she moves back to the small down in Maine, still expecting to never see the baby's father since she believed he was passing through. Instead, as she quickly discovers since he is her first patient, that he has always lived in the town. Since the 34 year old father of her child is standing there with his 19 year bimbo cheerleader girlfriend, she panics and says she is married. Worse, she discovers he is the landlord of her new residence! The lie grows and grows until she finds herself buying clothes and creating magazine subscripts in the 'husbands' name, trying to convince Jack that she is married. It is often a little stretched, and you really wonder if someone would go to these extremes, but Fox's writing makes the whole thing enjoyable!
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Summary: Good hero; good book.
Review: Delaney Poole finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with gorgeous Jack Shepherd. It happens when she is investigating one possible location for her residency with a man she thinks is on vacation there. She comes back to Harp Cove, Maine, over a year later with baby Emily only to find that Jack is her landlord! She panics, and blurts out to Jack that
she's married, and waiting for her husband to join her. She scrambles to keep her story straight from then on. Delaney is functioning on fear. She doesn't want anything in her daughter's life that could hurt her, and she has heard so much that indicates Jack would be a bad father and a reluctant one.
Jack is stunned that Delaney is Harp Cove's new doctor and is happy to see her again. But he doesn't really believe that she's married. She talks about her husband too much and also has a tendency to forget his name.... He senses Delaney's fear, and wants to soothe her in his arms. But how would he feel if he knew that she fears his involvement in their daughter's life?
Fear leads Delaney to a foolish act that she is forced to
compound with sometimes hilarious results. Jack doesn't deserve the treatment he receives, and he is a great hero. This book will make you laugh, sigh and squirm on your way to a satisfying ending.
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Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: Don't read this book if you are looking for a serious story dealing with the aftermath of having a one night stand and having a baby. This was written to be funny, and it is. Of course, the things Delaney did were ridiculous! No one would go to the extent she did. But where would any story be if it only told what the most reasonable and boring person would do? Read this to be highly entertained and I guarantee you won't be able to stop from laughing.
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Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: Don't read this book if you are looking for a serious story dealing with the aftermath of having a one night stand and having a baby. This was written to be funny, and it is. Of course, the things Delaney did were ridiculous! No one would go to the extent she did. But where would any story be if it only told what the most reasonable and boring person would do? Read this to be highly entertained and I guarantee you won't be able to stop from laughing.
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Summary: More frustrating than funny
Review: Firstly, the cover has nothing really to do with the book (not the author's fault), but if you're looking for a hunky labourer type, this is not the book for you. Next: someone else mentioned making the leap of disbelief, but that was just too much for me. The characters, especially the hero, did things I didn't understand and junped to too many conclusions. I didn't understand why the hero was so desperate to prove the heroine was lying about being married, yet *didn't* ask himself why she was doing it. Probably because he would have come up with the answer pretty quickly. The heroine was too passive for me to really care about what happened to her. Unfortunately for me as a reader, I didn't find a "vibrant new voice" with this book.
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Summary: Fast and funny
Review: I couldn't disagree more with the Publisher's Weekly review stating that this book won't gain Ms. Fox a broader readership. This is the first Elaine Fox novel I've read, but it certainly won't be the last. Many romance novels that try to blend in comedy often fall flat, but I laughed out loud while reading this book, particularly in the last 75 pages, where all the story lines converge. I appreciated that the "hero" of this novel was a regular guy with a bit of a problem with responsibility--I don't know who created the convention that romanctic heroes have to be millionaires, cops, or soldiers, but this novel defies it brilliantly. I also thought that the romance was not overshadowed by the farce--the beach scene at the beginning of the book is among the most romantic I've ever read. The sparks generated by that scene are enough to carry readers through the shenanigans that follow. I'm looking forward avidly to Ms. Fox's next contemporary romance.
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Summary: I Liked It, But...
Review: I liked the characters, and I liked the fact that Ms. Fox gave voice to both Delaney and Jack, but Delaney's antics to try to hide the fact that Jack was her daughter's father were just a little too ridiculous and heavy-handed. I would have thought that since she had decided early on not to have contact with the child's father, she would have come up with a good cover story to explain her single parenthood. I also would have expected her to keep her facts straight without resorting to writing them down in a list and putting it where it could be found. After all, she knew she was returning to the town where the child was conceived, and someone may have noticed her and Jack together. The characters were all interesting and amusing, the romance sexy, and the dialogue humorous, but the contrived and somewhat annoying nature of the plot conflict is what makes this book rate only 3 stars, which is a shame because there was a lot of potential here.
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Summary: Hilareous AND Heartwarming
Review: I love funny stuff but very few writers have been able to grab me with humorous romance because I don't like a bunch of emotionless one-liners. Elaine Fox has a brilliant comic voice, smoothly combining genuine, heart-tugging emotion with laugh-out-loud comedy and irony. If you like intelligence and wit with your romance, you'll love Elaine Fox!
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