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Summary: mostly just annoying
Review: I don't usually like romances with children or babies in them, because it often seems to me as if the author included them just so that there'd be a cuteness factor for the book. In this book, the baby is a vital part of the story, but I still don't like the story any better. Devon Clarke, author of the immensely popular column "Bringing Up Baby", is a fraud. She knows nothing about babies. Unfortunately, two fans of hers, a couple who'd applied her advice to their own child, die, and they leave their baby to Devon. I thought this was a bit strange and contrived, since this couple had no way of knowing what kind of person Devon was or even what she looked like, since she never did interviews. Anyway, Colin O'Reilly, Devon's new carpenter, helps her out with the baby. She needs that help not only because she's miserably bad with the baby, but also because someone is causing accidents to happen around Devon, in order to make it look as if she can't properly care for the baby. On top of all of that, Devon needs to do her first tv interview, and she needs to produce a baby and a husband, fast. She's got a baby, so she figures all she needs to do is convince Colin to pretend to be her husband. I never really liked Colin that much. He seemed to be pretty much against everything Devon did or decided to do. The romance between them was a little forced, especially since, if I were Devon, I would've been too mad about the way Colin was acting to even get around to romance. Then again, Devon wasn't too brilliant either, digging herself into a deeper hole with her lies by actually using Colin as the "husband" she'd made up and even going so far as to create a fake video tape of their wedding. Any normal person would've just ended up admitting that they'd made the whole "perfect wedding, perfect husband, perfect child" thing up.
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Summary: mostly just annoying
Review: I don't usually like romances with children or babies in them, because it often seems to me as if the author included them just so that there'd be a cuteness factor for the book. In this book, the baby is a vital part of the story, but I still don't like the story any better. Devon Clarke, author of the immensely popular column "Bringing Up Baby", is a fraud. She knows nothing about babies. Unfortunately, two fans of hers, a couple who'd applied her advice to their own child, die, and they leave their baby to Devon. I thought this was a bit strange and contrived, since this couple had no way of knowing what kind of person Devon was or even what she looked like, since she never did interviews. Anyway, Colin O'Reilly, Devon's new carpenter, helps her out with the baby. She needs that help not only because she's miserably bad with the baby, but also because someone is causing accidents to happen around Devon, in order to make it look as if she can't properly care for the baby. On top of all of that, Devon needs to do her first tv interview, and she needs to produce a baby and a husband, fast. She's got a baby, so she figures all she needs to do is convince Colin to pretend to be her husband. I never really liked Colin that much. He seemed to be pretty much against everything Devon did or decided to do. The romance between them was a little forced, especially since, if I were Devon, I would've been too mad about the way Colin was acting to even get around to romance. Then again, Devon wasn't too brilliant either, digging herself into a deeper hole with her lies by actually using Colin as the "husband" she'd made up and even going so far as to create a fake video tape of their wedding. Any normal person would've just ended up admitting that they'd made the whole "perfect wedding, perfect husband, perfect child" thing up.
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