GRR Reviews The Billionaire's Arranged Baby: An Africa by Rochelle Williams

The Billionaire's Arranged Baby really made no sense as both MMC and FMC had personality flips. The author's writing style of missing commas (Ex: "what is the problem Andrew?") is hard to adjust to. And the plot is "weird will" trope cliche. All in all, I had to rate this well below average.

Eva had lusted after Andrew all her life, after growing up next to Andrew's rich family. But Andrew never noticed her, always have some blonde bimbo on his arm. When Andrew's father passed away, the will was read... Andrew cannot inherit the company as CEO unless he can get Eva pregnant. Eva, then employed as librarian, refused, but soon she melted under Andrew's wooing, and they fell in love... and had some fights, they reconciled, and a son was born... The end.

WTF?! This is supposed to be a novel? Sure, there's a bit of back and forth, like Eva getting cold feet and Andrew used his seduction to get her to comply, or Eva after getting pregnant sudden decided Andrew's a cheating bastard and Andrew suddenly realized how bad he had been treating Eva and went off to sulk, then Eva was counseled into taking Andrew back (why?). The way they each had a personality flip was sudden and unexplained. It's not as if they were prodded into an epiphany. There were also some terminology problems. Since when do OB/GYN doctors say "we have to take the baby out"? They say "we need to do a C-section"! And this author also has a problem of skipping commas as explained before.

Compared to the 4- or 5-star rated stuff, the prose is stiff, grammar is iffy, the plot is cliche, and the will itself is REALLY forced plotting to squeeze some emotions out of the two flat characters. The struggle barely made sense. All in all, a disappointing novel.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Man must impregnate a woman he doesn't love to inherit his father's company; she liked him from afar but will that be enough?

Tropes: weird will, pregnancy, unrequited love, forced proximity, enemies to lovers

Overall Rating:  2/5 (rounded up)