Friends Become Lovers

My Review:

Great friends-to-lovers story!  Very light and warm, loving, friendly.  I love that the hero wants a family and has been hoping to find the right woman for five years.  The hero/heroine are friends and he's her boss.  I liked how he couldn't help but smile and be happy when she got the positive pregnancy test result.  The book has a lot of comedy to it, and I really liked that.  It was cute how the hero calls his future sister-in-law "pork chop" and she calls the hero "sugar lump".  I thought it was hilarious that coming from an ultra Catholic family the sister says her new special someone is an atheist and a woman.  The epilogue made me laugh and just GRIN... it's 11 years after their marriage and they do a run down of all the times the heroine got pregnant with each child.  Hilarious.  Really warm read, I loved this couple and they have such a happy life together. 

My Rating: 4.5/5 stars, really really good book.  It's rare that I mark a SD a KEEPER, but I'm going to label this one.  It's a really great light and funny book.  Must read. 

(that means you Margie, LOL!) 

NFM

Caitlin O'Hara really really wants to become a mother so she takes up dating random men to see if they could be the dad.

Favourite Scene: (she's ovulating and called him over to have sex)

"Did you run all the way here?"
"The Jeep was blocked in by a delivery truck. I thought it would be faster on foot. Did I miss it?"
"Miss what?"
"Your egg. Is it too late?"
"Oh, I guess I should have explained, my egg is good for at least twenty-four hours after the hormone surge. Sometimes even longer."
"That would have been nice to know."  

My Review:

Aw, the cover is cute, the hero is a cute blond and the H/h are embracing and their image is reflecting in a mirror.  I adore friends-to-lovers stories, and this was a great one!  She wants a baby, and he volunteers to be the father.  They start out having sex for the sake of conception, he wants to make it good for her, from the start there's more to this than just sex.  They love each other from page 1, they just haven't yet admitted to themselves it's the "in love" kind of love too.  They both have issues with their unconventional/bad family lives.  When her building has a fire, she stays at his place and intimacy grows.  The love and passion is so strong, the characters are real, even the secondary characters are lovely.  Every time she calls the hero to tell him she's ovulating... he RUNS home and it's adorable how he drops everything.  The ending was sweet, they resolved their family issues and showed how much they know and love each other. 

Rating: 4/5 stars, great friends-to-lovers story!  NFM

Back Cover:

He had what she needed. 

Mallory O'Brien wanted a child more than anything. And smart, devastatingly sexy Whit Manning was just the man for the job. Seducing him would be a pleasure... for both of them. 

But Whit wasn't a forever kind of man. Giving in to the heat she'd always felt between them came at a price Mallory wasn't sure she wanted to pay. Because once their steamy affair ended, and she was pregnant with his child, how could Mallory never touch Whit again? 

Favourite Scene: (Mallory asks him to have a baby with her over breakfast)

"Let's have a baby Whit"

Whit continued to peruse the sports page and muttered, "A bagel sounds great, O'Brien. Add some of that cream cheese, will ya?"

"I didn't say bagel. I said baby. B-a-b-y."

Fortunately Whit was a multitasker. He could read the current baseball stats and still humour her. "Sure thing, but my schedule's pretty tight at the moment." He studied the ceiling and pretended to think. "I can probably do you at lunch on Tuesday, on top of the conference table, right after I get approval of the Barclay headquarters' design. I'll have my secretary mark it down on the calendar." 

Great!  Funny and passionate.  The heroine/hero have a history as friends-turned-lovers.  After they become lovers she runs in the opposite direction and avoids him for two months.  When he eventually finds her, she is hiding her pregnancy from him.  She blurts it out eventually and they are snowbound together.  They need to work through her issues about balancing a career and kids.  They both are excited about the baby, but hiding it because they aren't sure how the other person feels about the pregnancy.  Great! 

Rating: 4/5 stars, great friends-to-lovers story

Awesome!  They had a friendship when she was 14, him 20.  He taught her how to kiss when she asked.  Now at 24 she meets him again at a society wedding.  He thinks she thought he wasn't good enough for him.  He offers her a job.  They go away together and he tries to seduce her.  They end up in bed, he finds out she's a virgin, they have a post mortem on sex, he reveals he loves her, she reveals she loves him.  Yummy. 

Rating: 4/5 stars, a tad dated, but it's a wonderful story of discovering passion. 

Score: 4.5

Cavanaugh Justice Series

This book is the latest in the Cavanaugh Justice Series.. according to the author notes, it is due to the many requests from her fans... so to her fans everywhere, THANKS!  It was an AWESOME book... and maybe there are now a few more in the wings based on the ending...

Catherine Harris is Luke Van Buren's annoying little step sister