Gain Access To Just For Fun (Escape To New Zealand, #4) Penned By Rosalind James Disseminated As Pamphlet
was a very good story, I liked Nic and Emma and the way the story played out, I was rooting for them to get together from the start,
Emma is a sweet woman that hasn't had an easy time of it, She's a single mother that works at an Engineering firm as a CAD operator, She's unhappy in her work because her supervisor goes out of his way to make her life hell, She gets by on the money she makes but doesn't fight back when her supervisor is a pain because she can't afford to lose her job, She loves her son, Zach, very much and does her best to take care of him, Emma struggles to not to let him feel the strain of their money situation but it's hard to hide, even from a child,
Nic is a professional rugby player and a good guy, He played on a team in another country for years and just got traded back to New Zealand recently, He has a fiancee named Claudia, who is a highpowered lawyer, She's not exactly the warm type but Nic does his best to make things work with her,
Nic and Emma spent a week together in Fijiyears before, Emma had just been dumped at the alter and was looking to escape for a bit, Nic was on break from Rugby in Fiji, They meet on the plane and spend a wonderful week together, When they split it's with professions of love and Nic promising to get in touch with Emma once he gets settled in with his new team, Unfortunately, Nic had a bout of relationship dumbassedness and let his young and stupid brain convince him that Emma wasn't all he remembered and that there would be other women as good as her after he'd experienced some adventure.
Well He didn't call her and due to his celebrity status, Emma had no luck trying to get a message to him about her unexpected pregnancy even through legal channels.
She gave up thinking that Nic wasn't interested in having anything to do with Zach,years later, Zach is on a kids rugby team and Nic is there helping out a friend with coaching the kids, He notices Zach's resemblance to him as a kid but doesn't think much of it until he gets a look at Zach's mom, Emma, He quickly adds it up and finds that, realizing that Zach must be his kid,
Nic wastes no time getting in touch with Emma and he apparently hadn't been told about any of her attempts to get in touch with him.
He decides he wants in Zach's life and immediately gets paternity tests set up and promises to start paying maintenance aka Child support, He also wants to get to know Zach, Emma cautiously agrees but makes Nic promise to let her decide when Zach finds out Nic's his dad, Nic tells Claudia about Zach and she's not happy at all and doesn't relish the thought of being a stepmom or giving up some of Nic's money for the maintenance payments.
Nic starts to spend time with Nic and Emma at times by default and he tries to get Claudia involved but she soon makes it clear that it's her or Zach and Nic makes the right choice so Claudia packs up and leaves him.
The attraction between Nic and Emma was still there and they'd been doing their best to ignore it when Claudia was in the picture but after she left.
. . well lets just say that after a bit of a wait Nic makes it clear to Emma that he wants her, Emma is very worried about her heart being broken but more importantly Zach being hurt if they started seeing each other and things go wrong, It takes a bit of time a persuasion but Nic gets his chance and proves to be worthy of her trust, There is drama and some hard decisions that have to be dealt with but Nic and Emma are both strong, caring individual and they do what they need to in order to make things work for them as a couple and allof them as a family.
I liked the way things were wrapped up at the end and loved seeing Nic and Emma and Zach starting their HEA,
This was a very enjoyable story, I really liked all the characters well except maybe Claudia and thought the story was well written, Although it's pretty much a romance with no action plot, the story is still interesting enough that I stayed fully engaged until the end, This was a very good addition to the series and I plan to read more of the series in the future, I'd recommend this book. Thumbs up. :D What an enjoyable book! I downloaded it because I'm in the middle of an audio book and a hard cover book but I prefer to read on my kindle in bed.
So I went looking for a 'secret baby romance' to read as part of the Unapologetic Romance Readers group challenge and this one, set in NZ, with a sports theme looked like a reasonable choice.
The problem being that I read it in one day so now I need to find another kindle book,
It turned out so much better than I expected I loved it,
I liked Emma, she didn't feel threatened by Nic coming back into her life and she did a good job controlling the way that Nic became integrated into Zack's their son's life.
She did an awesome job under difficult circumstances I reckon,
Emma had career problems that are probably faced by many people who are in an economically fragile situation putting up with abuse and bullying for fear of losing her income.
This was a very powerful part of the story for me, But GEEZ this author has it in for engineers! There
are heaps of them in this book and they are all arseholes : I would have liked to see a little bit of balance in Emma's workplace.
I liked that Nic was right on board with the fatherhood thing, and he didn't go off in a rage when he found out like happens in many of these sorts of tropes.
In fact, he is generally a dude who uses 'his words' to resolve conflict, I also enjoyed the sports aspect of the story line and the NZ setting,
Kudos to the author also for not making Nic's exfiance into an evil bitch, She wasn't on board with the new developments in their relationship and she called it quits with a minimum of fuss and defended Nic's reputation when it was needed.
This is a very enjoyable read that pulls off the secret baby theme with realism and empathy, It is a lovely romance in a series I really like, If you are looking for a good sports romance, look no further! This was a nice contemporary romance set in New Zealand, The story had a slow steady pace, the romance didn't really start until about, up until then the leads were working through the details of the hero getting to know the son he just found out about at age six.
This is one secret baby story that I didn't mind, she tried very hard to let him know even after he never called her back after a week long fling.
I enjoyed the Kiwi lingo but I have to be honest, I had no idea what the author was referring to sometimes this also includes rugby lingo.
I plan on checking out other books by this author, My favorite of this series so far!
Ive been a little “meh” about each of the FMCs in the first three of the series but Emma was awesome! She was quite as innocent and naive as the others and she was a fabulous mom on top of that.
I like that she didnt let Nic just jump right in to the dad thing and insisted on the gettingtoknowyou stage,
Nic was a great character, I didnt even mind the “other woman” scenario, as Claudia served as such a contrast to Emma that it helped Nic realize what he truly wanted in life.
Im definitely in a “sweet” romance mod right now and this series is delivering, Theres usually a little drama and/or angst thrown in but its mild and resolved quick, They are spicy but likewholesome spicy lol, It is graphic and descriptive but not in a crude way, Usually I intensely dislike stories involving a secret baby plot, but this one was different and it worked, Nic and Emma had an intense, whirlwind vacation romanceyears ago which resulted in a baby, A baby Nic didn't know about, and a baby Emma did everything she knew to do to inform him of, Now baby Zach is a cute tyke ofand ends up at a rugby camp where Nic is volunteering, AB C.
This was a nice story about second chances, two people growing up and finding themselves, and eventually each other again, I thought it was realistic and believable and the pacing was just right, They didn't fall into bed immediately, but felt their way along a tenuous, if somewhat rocky road, from former lovers to coparenting to lovers again, It helped that the kid wasn't annoying and that Emma didn't smother him or try to keep Nic away in a "mother knows best" attitude, I even teared up a few times,
.So, this is the third book Ive read in this series, and I have two others in my TBR pile,
Yep, I LOVE this series, I dont have a lot to say about them, other than they are easy reads, They are fun. They are light. Rosalind James did not fail, . . again provided another wonderful story about the All Blacks, Nic and Emma met by chance in Fiji, had a great week together then lost contact after leaving each other at the airport,years later they happen to meet again when Emma'syear old son, Zach, is at a Rugby camp that Nic is helping at, Any quesses as to who his father is, . . yep Nic's!! This story is about their getting a second chance with each other but not without others having a say or effect on them of course.
I really enjoyed this one as much as I did the first three and I can't wait to read the rest of the series,
Actual .stars, but rounding up in fairness because I honestly suspect this is a case of "It's not you, book, it's me, " The writing was fine, it just wasn't my thing,
Seven years ago, Emma was very immature young woman, just jilted at the altar, who goes alone on what was supposed to be her honeymoon in Fiji, and literally tumbles into the arms of carefree and handsome rugby player, Nic.
She forgets to take her birth control pill a couple of timeswhoops!and fast forward to the present, Nic sees her and their six year old son Zack, puts two and two together, and decides to step in and do the right thing as dad.
Mostly, it is a very domestic story about childcare and cozy dinners and decorating kids' rooms first on a shoestring budget and then with a credit card.
Emma is a capitalM mom and her life revolves around Zack, Yes, in real life that is to be expected of mothers with young children, but in fiction, I find it kind of dull, Every once in a while, a fictional child can be engaging, but Zack is no Scout Finch, I'll just say that,
There were other things that also made Just for Fun just not for me, such as how Emma is such a huge girlygirl and Nic is a professional athlete, two other things I find rather boring.
So I ended up skimming all the parts that had to do with rugby and Emma's chatting with the rugby wives about babies and knitting,
So what did I like As I said, the writing was fine, and I liked how Nic was presented as such a thoroughly decent character from start to finish, a nice change after some of the stalkerish alpha idiots I've run across in contemporary romances this year.
Emma was nice too. Honestly, don't take my lukewarm praises to heart, I suspect it's all just a case of "not for me," and if you like stories were children and parenting take center stage, you will probably enjoy it more than I did.
Read for Unapologetic Romance Readerschallenge: Secret Baby Category, .