Showing posts with label sibling's ex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sibling's ex. Show all posts

GRR Reviews The Marine's Baby, Maybe by Rogenna Brewer


Caitlin just wanted to have her late Marine husband's baby, but a mix-up at the sperm bank means her baby's father is actually her husband's half-brother. "Lucky" Luke had never been lucky in love or family, so the sperm sample he stored was out of formality. But now that he has a child, he can't leave his unborn child or the mother of the child behind...

Quite a bit of angst, obligation, and love comes much, much later. 3.5/5

GRR Reviews The Billionaire's Alternate Marriage by Tami Dearen

Rylie had been crushing on Jarrett, even though Jarrett dated her twin sister Carlie. But Carlie dumped Jarrett for a singing career in Nashville. Years later, Carlie is hiding out from a scandal and living with Rylie... when Rylie found that Jarrett has moved in next door, and is now a billionaire. But Jarrett wants to adopt Gabe and despite his riches, he can't seem to get adoption approved... unless he got married. The logical choice would be Carlie, who can use a boost for her career, being associated with a billionaire. But when timing did not work out, Jarrett ended up marrying Rylie instead, as a marriage of convenience. It's just to adopt Gabe, they said to themselves... Each was convinced that the other wanted someone else... Can they ever admit their real feelings?

Good setup and no logic holes or plot holes I can see, just a lot of inconvenient timing (like Carlie fell sick just before the marriage timing) but if rom-coms can do it, so can regular romances. 4/5

GRR Reviews The Ex Effect by Karla Sorensen

Ava was always the 'second daughter' of the family... Her older sister went into her father's profession... She went into PR, specifically, sports PR, and no one in the family cared... It's always "why can't you be more like your sister"?  Now working for the Washington Wolves as their social media manager, she's in her element... Until she got the latest news... Matthew Hawkins is coming out of retirement to play for the Wolves... She had a crush on Matt for ten years... It should be a dream come true... Except Matt was once engaged to her sister.  And this Matt is grown up, bigger, stronger... and now that she's all grown up too... There's nothing stopping them from coming together... Except PR person is not supposed to sleep with players... and just imagine what her family would say about them together, esp. when her sister wants to do a 9th-anniversary "vow renewal" celebration... (and she showed up with him...)

The family is a bit too... one-sided to the point of being caricatures.

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Overall Rating: 4/5

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