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Review

3 stars

I loved the set up for this book – a woman thinks she’s pregnant from a one night stand so she goes to get checked out only to discover that the guy she hooked up with is her ob/gyn. Awkward!

Bren is a conservationist who works at the zoo and who is happily and contentedly consumed by her career. After watching her mother fall apart after the death of her father, she wants no part of love, and avidly avoids anything remotely resembling a relationship, instead focussing all of her attention on her job.

What I did technically couldn’t be called dating. Unless, of course, he counted my long-term, committed relationship with my friendly bedside vibrator. If that were the case, I’d bet at this point I could petition for common law marriage.

Mason Bentley is at the other end of the scale. Of course he loves his job and is dedicated to his career, but he wants love. He wants a relationship, and he wants the happy family life that he himself had.

It’s going to sound cheesy, but the fact is, I want a soul mate. Someone who not only loves me, but understands me on my deepest level.

Bren and Mason met in a bar and had the hottest sex of their lives before Bren ran out on Mason in the morning. He knew that she was the one for him and searched for her without any luck, she had no intention of ever seeing him again…. and we all know how that one works out.

Like I said, this book has a really cute set up, and with Mason determined to not only get to know his possible baby-mama, but to make her his, the stage is set for fireworks with him pushing for time together and an emotional connection and Bren trying to keep her distance. I loved that we have a hero who a genuinely nice guy, and he is the one pushing for something meaningful. He’s got a battle on his hands for sure, but there’s a nice mix of sweet, fun and sexy as Mason works to make his case.

“All you need to do is say yes, Bren. Say yes to taking a chance with me.”

Having said that though, the love story moves really fast and as a result I really didn’t get into it as much as I was hoping. Mason’s insistence that Bren was his one and only based on one night of steaming hot sex was really farfetched, and the ‘relationship’ didn’t feel real (even for a romance book). And I never warmed up to Bren – I feel like she needed a slap through most of the book so she could wake up and just get over herself!

I like that the story wasn’t predictable, but the ‘drama’ was eye rolling, and while the epilogue was cute, again it was completely unrealistic (having been in a similar situation myself).

So, yeah. Not what I was hoping for, but there were some cute moments and it was a quick read.

3 stars.

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