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Brendan Millar wants to spend a quiet summer in the woods of northern Minnesota.
He has a difficult decision to make whether or not to become a priest and he needs time alone.
But that isn't going to happen, Not when Dani Taylor, a beautiful woman with questions of her own, arrives,
It's impossible to ignore Dani and soon Brendan isn't sure he wants to, Then, as if Dani isn't enough of a complication, his teenage niece shows up, She's a runaway a pregnant runaway, And the baby's due any day,
Things aren't turning out the way Brendan planned, But he still has to come up with an answer, Does he choose the path he's spent most of his life following or take a chance on Dani And what about the baby ed for sitelinkTHC s
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stars" Babe in the Woods is a sweet story about the importance of family and the sometimes difficult and/or painful choices that must be made in life.
From this perspective the plot worked quite well, I enjoyed the interactions between Brendan and his teenage niece, Jodi, who is struggling with the consequences of her unplanned pregnancy.
I also liked Dani wanting to learn more about her birth family, and figuring out how best to honor her grandfather's memory while bringing the resort he left her into thest century.
However, the romance itself was a bit weak in my opinion, being told in a somewhat more passive way than the rest of the story.
Most of the time, I felt like their attraction and feelings for one another were being told to me rather than shown.
At least I could sense more of a connection during their love scenes, but those moments were rather brief and didn't have quite enough sexual tension building up to them for my taste.
I was also somewhat disappointed by the ending, To me, it seemed like the several months separation that Brendan and Dani experienced could have been avoided by better communication, and there just wasn't enough excitement and spark to their reunion.
Also, the outcome for Jodi's baby was not what I was expecting and rather abrupt, One minute she's with them and the next she's not, leaving me having to backtrack several pages and reread an earlier passage to figure out what happened to her.
Danielle was a very nice heroine, She proved many times over that she was not the spoiled rich heiress that Brendan had initially thought her to be when she first arrived at the resort.
While I don't think I would be too keen on spending the summer in a cabin with no electricity or running water, I admired Dani for her willingness to do so, even though she wasn't really used to such inconveniences.
I also liked that she was great with kids of all ages, eagerly befriending Jodi as well as helping to care for her baby when she was born.
Dani was just an easygoing, laidback, and coolheaded woman who wasn't overly bothered by much of anything, not even leeches in the lake or the lack of indoor plumbing.
Brendan was a much more complicated character, While I did like him, he didn't quite capture my heart like many romance heroes do, I think this might be owing to all his complexities not being explored in enough depth for me to fully understand where he was coming from.
His background and upbringing would have lent itself to him being a very tortured hero, yet he didn't really seem like one to me.
He was just a man who was struggling with a very tough decision, namely whether to continue his training to become a priest.
It was my understanding that he was essentially on a sabbatical for the summer until he made up his mind, therefore his choice to give up his longheld celibacy to make love to Dani came about a little too quickly and without enough contemplation to suit me.
I was also disappointed by Brendan keeping himself so closed off from Dani and basically refusing to talk to her about his past or about his decisions regarding the priesthood until the very end of the story.
Brendan being so reticent is the main thing that fueled the communication issues between them, I did like how supportive and caring he was of his niece, I also liked how he had been a really good friend to Dani's grandfather and wanted to keep the resort as natural and pristine as possible to honor his wishes.
One of the main things I enjoyed about Babe in the Woods was the setting.
The author did a good job with describing the resort and how peaceful it was there, The tiny nearby town with it's few colorful residents was fun to read about too, The book could sometimes be a little dialog heavy, but at least, it had a nice natural flow to it.
If Brendan had been a better communicator and the actual romance between him and Dani, as well as the ending, had been a bit stronger, this book would have gotten a higher rating from me.
As is, I still mostly liked it and thought it was a worthwhile read, It was my first book by Pamela Bauer, and I generally liked her writing style enough that I'm open to possibly trying some of her other stories.
Pamela Muelhbauer was born and raised in Minnesota, one of six children, She and her husband Gerr, live in a small community just northwest of Minneapolis, They have two children, Amy and Aaron, and a bichon poo that thinks hes human, The marriage spend much of their recreational time in the lakes region of northern Minnesota, They enjoy roasting marshmallows over an open fire and listening to the call of the loons in the summer, and in the winter they trek through the woods on snowshoes and fish through a hole in the ice.
Is it romantic Ask a Minnesotan and youll likely get the answer, You betcha! says Pamela, who treasures those moments up north.
Since selling her first romance in, Pamela Bauer has gained fans around the world Pamela Muelhbauer was born and raised in Minnesota, one of six children.
She and her husband Gerr, live in a small community just northwest of Minneapolis, They have two children, Amy and Aaron, and a bichon poo that thinks hes human, The marriage spend much of their recreational time in the lakes region of northern Minnesota, They enjoy roasting marshmallows over an open fire and listening to the call of the loons in the summer, and in the winter they trek through the woods on snowshoes and fish through a hole in the ice.
Is it romantic Ask a Minnesotan and youll likely get the answer, "You betcha!" says Pamela, who treasures those moments "up north.
"Since selling her first romance in, Pamela Bauer has gained fans around the world for her heartwarming stories about love and
family relationships.
She plans to continue to write stories about people falling in love and living happily ever after, She hopes that when you read one of her books youll smile and maybe even laugh out loud, but important, when youve finished the story youll feel good about families, about life, and about love.
She often uses the Midwest as a setting for her books, because she believes theres something special about the region that makes it the perfect setting for stories about love and family.
Its also the place where she fell in love with her real life hero, her husband, sitelink.