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Loading... Our Options Have Changedby Julia Kent, Elisa Reed
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Having it all is a fantasy, right? Chloe Browne knows all about fantasy. Fantasy is her job. And she's very, very good at what she does. As director of design for the O Spa chain, a sophisticated women's club that is trending its way into being the Next Big Thing, Chloe's ready to take on the world. One baby at a time. Her home study's done, and she's about to adopt, a thirty-something single mother by choice. Who needs to put her life on hold for the right guy when the right baby is waiting for her? Besides, talk about fantasy. The right guy? Pfft. Right. And then in walks Nick Grafton, with those commanding sapphire eyes and wavy blonde hair and a sophisticated mouth that only smiles for her. He's perfect. But the last thing Nick wants is to start fresh with a new baby as his college-age kids fly the coop. A single father for more than fifteen years after his wife walked out on her family, Nick finally tastes freedom. But he likes the taste of Chloe more. * * * Our Options Have Changed is a full-length standalone contemporary romance, the first in the On Hold series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent and journalist-turned-fiction-writer Elisa Reed. It is a loose spinoff from Julia Kent's Shopping for a Billionaire series, with cameo appearances from favorite characters. No library descriptions found. |
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Also, it's about a woman adopting a newborn, meeting a man who is recently an empty nester (and also the older brother of her high school boyfriend)....I didn't realize what I was in for. I think a couple things were well done, if forgettable, about this book and it was breezy and sweet. Some of the plotlines were utterly unnecessary (like Nick's brother)
However, it was also a pretty decent depiction of parenting a newborn, which is decidedly unsexy even though I am a stupid sucker for men holding newborns. Basically, all I wanted when I had my first baby was a side piece. And by side piece, I mean a live-in nanny or other woman I could 100% guilt free dump my baby on. Or, better yet, could make my dinner. I felt utterly and 100% used up and touched out in those days. And I love the first year. But it's in no way glamorous-and this book did show that, I suppose. But I also didn't want anyone else demanding anything else of my body often times in the first year. It's a physically demanding, emotionally draining haze.
So I think Nick's fucking crazy. Cause I'm in the midst of my child-rearing, and I only have to blink to think back to the times we'd get together w/ good friends just so one of us could make the others dinner, shower, or empty a dishwasher. Just be of service (5 young kids in total between the 4 of us). We didn't get to spend that time with our friends, we just did it to get stuff done.
So, it works for us in this household; it is sexy to see someone care for a little person. I just didn't really want to read a book about it. It's a cute story. It just doesn't do it for me. And I like storylines with kids in them! (Side note, I did enjoy Nick's kids. They were quite funny) (