What do You think about Nobody's Baby But Mine (1997)?
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
