"Da! Da! Da-Bee!" Times like a million. That repetitious dialogue nearly drove me out of my tree before the final page. That and the fact that the toddler would speak in baby talk one minute, then perfectly *adult* sentences the next.And just like most 3 year old little girls, the one in this book must've thought if she shut up for more than 3 consecutive seconds, she'd pop out of existence. ** POP* God, let me tell you, she was in NO danger of that happening.Any whooooo... Let's just say that I've read several books with young kids (mostly ones with little boys vs. little girls in the story) that didn't make me want to run from the room. This was not one of them.This book tried way too hard to keep the 'cute' factor at 11 out of 10 from the get go and it felt continually forced when the kids were in the room.However, when it was just Ben and Will, it was fine. Not amazing, but fine. Gauged mainly by the fact that I had a reprieve from my urge to punch something.Another reader stated that he liked this book much better when it was still in its original "Daddy, Daddy and Me" form, which I agree with whole heartedly.Ok, I've been holding this in for over 200 pages: "Carrie, can you please for the love of God STFU for 2 goddamn seconds, so I can think?" Lord, that felt good. hehe I liked this book a lot better when it was called Daddy, Daddy and Me. I had to force myself to finish reading this because I kept comparing it with DD&M and found A Family of His Own lacking in comparison. Both books have gorgeous men that had recently lost a loved one and were left with kids to raise on their own while working jobs that force them to be very stressed and work a large number of hours, making a nanny a necessity, and both books have nannies that also happen to be gorgeous guys that love kids and also love to cook. Both nannies have to show these dads how to be fathers, since for whatever reason neither man is that sure of what he is supposed to be doing with his kids. It's not that it wasn't well written, because it's a Sean Michael book so of course it was, it's just that I couldn't connect to the characters. I found the scenes with the children very repetitive and annoying and I didn't really like Benji; he seemed entirely too judgmental about how Will was handling losing his partner of ten years and how Will had chosen to raise the three children left behind. Benji had never been in a long term relationship and had never had children of his own so I thought that his scolding of Will and how he was handling this loss was hypocritical.
What do You think about A Family Of His Own (2013)?
It was a fine book but as others have said an almost repeat from another book.
—gabriel
Cute manny story. Wraps up a little quickly but enjoyable.
—Natty
