Pick Up Contract Baby (The Husband Hunters, #3) Formulated By Lynne Graham Displayed As Leaflet
much drama i really enjoyed it,
Didn't like the hero for most of the book but couldn't put it down,
Pregnant with his kid heroine is a surrogate who disappears when she finds out hero is the fathers baby, The same guy who has been cosying up to her but she was told the baby was for a lovely couple add to that her mum had just died so she ran.
She runs twice and there's even a point where it looks like she's run for ard time but she hadn't lol,
I don't know what it is but I love it when they run, Make them pay especially if they're an ass like this hero was hehehe So can we just agree that a woman, using her own eggs, is NOT a surrogate That's a biological mother giving up her child.
A surrogate doesn't contributes generic material, she is just the carrier, This is one of those books were they base it the whole story on a word that is being used incorrectly, Furthermore, it's poorly edited. You kinda have to guess what's dialogue because of the lack of punctuation marks, Atfor such a short book, I expected better quality, I could not make it past the free sample, it was just painful to read, This one was hard to get through and I might not have made it had I been in a different mood and had I not been trying to read this series.
The hero was a hideous asshat, He humiliated the heroine over and over again, I guess he was an angry boner man which useful term I learned from my GR friend willaful, Boy was he
ever pissed he wanted her, The heroine was sweet and super naive,
The story was interesting and the conflict well developed and it made sense, If you can get past or maybe you're in the mood for the spectacular asshattedness of the hero this might be the book for you, I guess the four are because it was a pretty spectacular train wreck to watch, Don't like this one. The h just got on my nerves with her childishness, If not for the fact that for some obscure reason the H actually fell for her it will be a total disaster, Like the H accused, she practically used the baby to blackmail him into marrying her and then use sex to trade for his fidelity, The very fact that she ran off and broke the contract after reaping all the benefits without a thought gave me a very bad vibe, compound to that she just refused all the suggestions the H gave to solve the situation which sounds v reasonable considering the fact the this was not a situation he had bargained for to begin with made her seriously self centered and self serving.
Seriously why does he have to marry her to get access to a baby he had paid dearly for already I think I would have felt more sympathetic if it was the H that suggested this in the end, I can totally understand why he was so pissed especially when she doesn't even realize what her actions and words implied.
Her jealousy also rubbed me the wrong way, Seriously girl you are the one that coerced him into marriage what right do you have to dictate his actions when you didn't even ascertain what he feels for you first.
All in all the h's so whiny all through/of the book that it gets on my nerves, The latter part and the ending is better, especially when this wrapped up nicely the whole series, Re Contract Baby Lynne Graham finishes off her sitelinkHusband Hunters trilogy with a surrogate mother/forced MOC book,
The h in this one is an extremely naive and conservatively raised unicorn groomer, The H is the Latin Lady Lover Extraordinaire who wants an heir, but is too busy sampling the lady buffet to settle with one woman,
When the h's mother becomes seriously ill and the h needs money for a Bronze Standard Livesaving HP Operation, the h agrees to be a surrogate for who she thinks is a married couple who desperately want a child.
Then she winds up staying in Vermont for most of her pregnancy after her mother's operation did not work and she died hence the Bronze Standard designation, HP Gold Standard is only awarded when the patient lives.
While the h is in Vermont, she meets a very handsome and dashing Latin American and falls madly in love then she finds out that the dashing Latin American is the single father of her unborn child and the h is devastated and betrayed.
She isn't giving her beloved baby up to some lady lurving buffet sampling playboy, The h heads home for England and learns about her million dollar inheritance that is only available if she marries,
The H tracks her down of course and the H and h bicker over the fate of the baby, The h is in England and because British law won't enforce a surrogacy contract, the H is forced to marry her, This doesn't stop him from parading a string of blonde bombshells in front of the h, nor does it prevent him from threatening bodily harm to the h if she betrays him with another man.
The H's on/off pursuit of the h becomes a bit tedious by the end and the h's main reaction is to have a fit and then cave in.
The H and h have a son and huge bursts of Patented LG Tummy Melting Purple Passion, But when we finally get to the H's Valenzuelan Hacienda, the green eyed demons run rampant,
The H is jealous of his stable manager, who offers to teach the h to ride, The h is jealous of the H's neighbor, who heavily implies that she and the H are involved in a big romance and the h is only there because she is the mother of the H's heir.
The h vacillates between disbelief and despair, her love for the H has never died and we learn that the H was actually the product of an affair between his landowning father and his neighboring tenant worker mother.
The H's childhood was fraught with difficulties as his mother was reviled for being a tart and possession of the H was something his parents fought over, as his father made the H and his mother live on the same land that also housed his heiress wife.
It was a very drama ridden and angry love triangle and the H's mother died while drinking and drowning when he was nine,
This has made the H very gun shy about marriage and getting seriously involved with any woman, which is why he keeps pulling and then pushing the h away.
But the h does her best to be a supportive wife and establish a sense of family by reuniting the H and his maternal grandfather under the guise of building a family for their son.
It all comes to a blow up point at the H's big annual fiesta/polo match celebration, The H has actually told the h he loves her at this point, but the h thinks it is just an exaggeration after being reunited with his grandfather,
The Blonde OW Neighbor shows up to make her insidious play and the h decides that she should probably sort out the OW's status with the H.
The H had previously lambasted the h for letting her jealousy show when OW approached him, so the h has been an internal ball of misery for several chapters, because from her POV, she is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't and what is a sweet LG doormat supposed to do
To both the h's and the reader's surprise, the H is all ready to kick the OW to the curb.
He did have a brief fling with the older lady when he was, but she was grasping and greedy and soon married a wealthier man than the H was at the time.
Now the OW has lost her money and the H felt a little nostalgic and sorry for her, so he leased her a home and offered to pay her to be his social hostess when he was around, but he has not been sleeping with her and he doesn't really like her as a person at all.
The H does a brilliant OW dismissal and kicks her out of the big fiesta, right there in front of the reader and the h, With the exposure of the OW's lies, the H and h are finally able to avow their true love for each other and the h is now reassured that she and the H have a love that will last.
LG finishes off with the H buying the h's godmother's old estate in England, he figures he and the h can live there when they visit, We get a little reunion with all three of the h's from the series,
All of them are loved up, baby blessed and happy, they are all also once again the very best of friends for another pink sparkly unicorn dancing LG HP outing.
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