1-1/2 stars
Very uneven read. There were parts that were good in the repartee between the hero and heroine especially at the beginning, but those couldn't overcome the book's short comings. The heroine's reactions to things were just bizarre. When the hero tells her that he is the child's father and says he just wants to be a part of the boy's life, she reacts as if he threatened to take the child away. It seemed like
I was reading a synopsis of secret baby books as she spouted every weird 'you can't have him, I'll take him and run away, you're a spoiled play boy who won't be able to make time for your son' line ever written in any book. All this not 10 minutes after saying that if the boy's unknown father ever showed up she would come to some accommodation with him over the boy.

I'm not even sure what happened at the end. Go to Ireland to visit the in laws to be but first the hero saves a man's life on the ferry. That's great but what point did that scene serve? Then he stops on the drive in because they happen across the hero's old fiance. He kisses her and tells the heroine whom he supposedly loves that he's going riding with her, the old fiance, in the morning and what's wrong with that? And why is the heroine jealous? See the characters just do weird stuff for no reason.

And the whole her sister got herself knocked up by tricking the guy was pretty lame. I just asked the hubby. He said if you were so drunk you wouldn't remember in the morning, you wouldn't be able to get it up. I suppose it might happen but it doesn't seem real likely. ( )