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Nobody's Baby But Mine (1997)

Nobody's Baby But Mine (1997)

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0380782340 (ISBN13: 9780380782345)
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Another great read. Dr Jane Darlington wants a baby but decides that she wants the father to be attractive, athletic but not particularly intelligent on the basis that the child would grow up with a happy mix from both parents. Cal Bonner is the 36 yr old star quarterback with the Chicago stars, who is in denial about the fact that he is getting older and may not be in a position to play for much longer. Our hero has a thing about age and women, and doesn't like to date anyone over 23 years old. Cal has been down in the dumps since his sister in law and nephew died in a road accident and the other players decide to give him a girl for his birthday. Through a bit of a tangled web, Jane ends pretending to be the hooker, with a big bow around her neck. Cal catches on that something isn't right but gets turned on and they have sex. Jane leaves asap. She does not fall pregnant but both of them have problems getting that night out of their minds. Jane approaches Cal again in a hotel and they have a further erotic encounter, and This time she does end up pregnant. Cal finds out and is absolutely furious. He wants to make Jane suffer and asks his lawyer to arrange his revenge. He insists that they marry for the sake of the child on the basis that they will divorce post birth and that he will have ongoing contact with the child thereafter. When the press finds out, he brings Jane to his home town Salvation in N Carolina.He initially effectively keeps Jane prisoner in his house and tries to isolate her from his friends and family so that none of them get to know or like her, so tha they will not be disapponted once the marriage is dissolved. However she manages to form a positive relationship with his grandmother. As time goes by, both start to realise that things are not as they appear. Jane is not by nature manipulative or devious and Cal is far from stupid. They start to enjoy each other's company and their attraction to each other builds. Jane feels inadequate about her body and sexuality , especially given Cal's obsession with big breasted young women. Cal has in many ways to grow up and start to realise that he and Jane are intellectual equals and that trophy women are not always the answer. Cal's up and coming rival for his position Kevin is introduced when he comes to town and this is done in a light hearted and humourous manner. There is a crisis when Jane realises that cal forgot to call his lawyer and investigators off, in respect of his previous desire for revenge. Cal's inability to respond when Jane declares her love brings her to the point of realising that she deserves more than this and that she not prepared to settle for less than she's worth. There is a wonderfully described relationship between Jane, Annie ( the grandmother) and Lynn as they all bond together and make the various men come to their knees. There is a poignant secondary story involving cal's parents relationship. His father Jim had got Amber Lynn pregnant when she was only 15. His family were well to do but Lynn came from a poor family. Due to her pregnancy she got kicked out of school, whilst Jim stays on to be valedictorian. He goes to medical school but their first years are one of poverty. Lynn worked minimum wage jobs and baked cookies that she sold on campus in order to help pay the bills. It emerges that Jim refused to acknowledge her to some of his friends and pretended he didn't know her from Adam. He was getting ready to divorce her, when she announced she was pregnant with their second child. Overall it seems that throughout the marriage Jim resented his wife and looked down on her in many respects. Lynn had done her best to try and please him, had undergone sigificant self education and become a sophisticated and lovely woman. However, over the years she had locked her heart away as she could not cope with the fact that jim did not reciprocate her feelings in the same way. In some ways this story line was more moving and tender than that of the main characters. There are some laugh out loud moments and some great lines in this book. the characters were flawed but are all pretty wonderful!

I am having such a great time reading this series. My first SEP book was Fancy Pants which I really enjoyed but the Chicago Stars Series is quickly becoming my favorite of her books thus far. What I am finding that I enjoy the most is the humor. And I don’t mean just a giggle here and there; I mean laugh out loud humor. Along with the humor you get a great story line, a sexy and brooding hero and a sweet and beautiful heroine with a backbone. All of the books in this series can be read as a standalone which is also fantastic but I have decided to read them in order. Some of the characters from the preceding books have a cameo so for me it was helpful to know what their story was about. I think Nobody’s Baby But Mine is my favorite. There was something a little more fragile about this heroine than the others and the hero was a little more relentless in his own particular quest. Janie ~ she was a little quirky. I guess that couldn’t be helped since she was a physicist. But she was also funny, beautiful and awkwardly flirty. Janie thought she had the perfect plan when she decided on the man to father her child. She knew she didn’t want a man that matched her IQ. She needed one that was lacking in that area. She had her reasons and she knew setting her eyes on Cal Bonner was the answer to her expiring biological clock. Cal ~ loved this guy. Being the quarterback for the Chicago Stars is his life. He is mans man too. Loves the niceties that he can afford and has a certain reputation to live up to. He is also very charming, handsome and amusing. When Janie presents herself to him he was a bit leery. He’d have his fun with her of course but the result of it wasn’t anything he’d ever expect. When everything backfires on Janie she finds herself in a bit of a mess. One that could not easily be fixed. Cal is beyond livid with her and decides the only way to deal with the “situation” was to bring Jane back to his hometown to wait things out. Here she meets Cal’s Gran Annie, his mom and dad Jim and Amber Lynn and his brother Ethan. Each one of these people brought about moments that made me cry (a little), laugh (a lot) and warmed my heart. Of course my favorite moments are with Janie and Cal though. The banter between them was endless and the anticipation of her reveal (read the book and you will know) drove me batty in the most wonderful way possible. Jane and Cal fall into a comfortable relationship and both are a bit surprised with how far they have come. But they struggle to turn that next corner and Cal finds himself on the wrong side of the fence. He never thought it would be so hard to convince someone that he loved them. This was such a fantastic book and I am thankful that my friend Karen continued to nudge me to start this series. ❤ I highly recommend this to all my friends!

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I'm even being nice by giving it 3 stars.Let's just say that the first 70% of the book was boring and annoying as hell. I just wanted to burn the book and look up and ask WHY??? Okay maybe I'm being a bit melodramatic but it's just that I loved the first 2 books so much that I could not believe how bad this one was at first. I must admit that the last 30% was much better, but it wasn't enough to compensate for that terrible beginning.The two main characters behave like the biggest asses in the world. First the heroine tricks the hero into getting her pregnant to not let him know nothing about it. Of course he finds out and it all goes down from there. They disagree in everything, shout at each other and discuss constantly all the time. They even say terrible things to one another. All this makes you hate this two characters a lot. If it wouldn't have lasted so long I could have changed my mind because the ending was really, really good. The problem is that when I say the ending I mean the last 30% of the book. And I am not overreacting, I checked the percentage on my kindle while reading it and it wasn't until the 70% of the book that the characters stopped hating each other. And the she just realizes she loves him, from nowhere, not because he was behaving better or anything. She just realizes it. It was very lame. Luckily from there, they really treat each other better.I don't know, I just didn't connect at all with the hero and heroine from this installment, which is bad because I love the writing style of this author. Just know that I still love this author and will read the next one immediately. My problem was just with this installment. Not that it was not a good book to read, I still could not put it down. It's just that comparing it to the first 2 books it was very very slow paced.Book 1 is still my fav. I missed all the football plot. It was so much fun. I just wish the author went back to that, but it seems she wont.
—valee

Phillips unites a beautiful, brainy scientist desperate to be a mom with a brawny, smoking hot jock who, though handsome enough to father her child, is nowhere near as stupid as she wants her baby’s daddy to be. The lovely Karen is reading this series and her updates and reviews have whetted my appetite to do a re-read. Was it as good second time around? Definitely. I loved it.I loved Janie. I loved Cal. I loved Annie, the adorable Granny. “Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt.” Jim and Amber Lynn. So, so sweet. I loved you too. “You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.” “Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained."He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch.""They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting."She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.”
—Mo

5 STARS I am going to start sounding like a broken record when it comes to Susan Elizabeth Phillips. And here I go again…. I fucking LOVED this book!!!!!!! What a shocker right? Seriously, I canNOT get enough of these fantastic books. Nobody's Baby But Mine is the third book in The Chicago Stars series. Although the books are written so that they can be read as stand alone, I personally recommend reading them in order. You are not going to want to miss one single moment of any of these books. READ THEM ALL, in order, out of order, over and over if you wish… which you will. Just read them, and love them all. Dr. Jane Darlington is a physicist. A genius. And that is not an exaggeration. She grew up feeling like a freak. Flying through school so quickly, she was working on her PhD, while her peers were just starting high school. So while other kids her age were experiencing their first kiss, she was studying sub-atomic particles. Not a boost to her social life, that’s for sure. Now Jane is thirty-four, she is unmarried, and her biological clock is a ticking time-bomb. But finding a father for her most coveted baby-to-be, is proving to be even more complicated than she had anticipated. Because she refuses to put her baby through the same freakish childhood she experienced. So, she’s going to need to find someone to balance the genetic pool back into the normal zone. In other words… someone dumb. Cal Bonner may be just the man to fit the bill. He is the current NFL quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team. He is gorgeous. He is unmarried. And his down-home southern boy ways make him appear to be just the kind of man she needs. But Jane may find out a little too late, that appearances can be deceiving. On television she’d seen a country hick with a good body and bad grammar, but the man staring at her from the other side of the room had nothing of the hick about him. She had chosen a warrior. She will also find out that getting herself into his bed may be a challenge that she is completely unprepared for. There are so many things about this book that I loved. It was hilariously funny at times, painfully awkward at others. It was heartwarming and sad as well. Truthfully there was NEVER a dull moment. These two characters go head to head like the War of the Roses leaving you completely exhausted, and you will love every minute of it. ”I’m sorry, I must have misunderstood. I assumed you were able to handle a grown woman. Would you like me to call the office and have them send out ‘Punkin’? If she has her homework done, she should be available.”And they say opposites attract… maybe not always. Jane is a bit shy and sweet, but she is also no doormat. When challenged, she is feisty as hell, and brilliant to boot. Whereas, Cal is a bit of as ass most of the time. He is surly and sarcastic, with the temper of a Tasmanian Devil. And he is not about to be taken advantage of, especially by an arrogant genius, baby-mad schemer of a woman. ”Everything about you is too big for me - not just your body, but your personality, your bank account, your temper, and definitely your ego.” I absolutely LOVED this book!!! Just writing my review has me wanting to read it all over again. The supporting cast is superb. Cal’s parents become a bit of a side story that is just as interesting as the main characters. And Annie Glide, Cal’s 90 year-old grandmother is just fabulous! ” I married a damn cereal killer!” “She glared at him. "You're doing it again.""What?""That thing that irritates me.""Smiling?""Yes. That.” “You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.” I just cannot say enough about Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I love her books. I love her writing style. And I lament the day when I run out of her books to read. But something tells me I’ll be reading these over and over for years to come. I highly recommend!!!!!!
—Karen

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