Cassandra Hallman

J.L. Beck 

Rule #1: Always wear a condom.Rule #2: Always leave them wanting more.Rule #3: Always man up. Erica Roberts was the maid of honor in my brother's wedding and my next conquest. She was tone, tan, and sweet as pie. I should've known I'd end up breaking her heart. Still, against my better judgement I took her giving us both the best night of our lives. When I woke up the next morning she was gone, not a trace of what had happened between us, and I realized then I broke my number one rule: Always use a condom. Two months later I get a text telling me I'm going to be a father. I feel a number of emotions, elation, fear, excitement, anger, but then she drops the biggest bomb on me. She says she doesn't need me or want me. Now I've got to do whatever I can to keep us from falling apart. She doesn't think I want the baby or can be a good father, while she's about to find out just the kind of man I am.

A Secret Baby Romance

Babies & Promises

Linda Träff Karlsson

DNF 37% 

I've never written a review on Goodreads before, but I just can't keep myself from writing one for this book. I’ve also never DNF:ed a book before because I have extreme book FOMO and want to find out what happens.

(some things below this might count as spoilers even though I've only read a bit of the book and much of it is implied by the title of the book and the blurb. Read at your own risk.)

First and foremost, I can't understand how so many writers who writes about pregnancies always acts like keeping the child is the only valid option but that's not how it works in the real world. When getting pregnant by a ONS after not using protection when you don’t want a child, why are you not getting a plan B pill? Or even CONSIDER getting an abortion? It is not that terrible and your right as a woman. You are not a baby making machine whose only purpose in the world is to produce babies to please others when you’re not ready. Many women don’t even want children and it is not unreasonable to consider an abortion. 

That whole premise in this book bothers me, and the way the doctor in the book assumes that the reason for freaking out about her pregnancy when finding out is that she’s not “ready”. Maybe she doesn’t WANT a child at that moment and that’s MORE important than being “ready”. It is such a pro-life/pro-birth and conservative thing to write in and I can’t wrap my head around it.

The worst thing is how the 'hero' is behaving as a petulant child and like god’s gift to women for the majority of the book and when he finds out about the pregnancy, he can’t even begin to fathom a POSSIBILITY where the MC doesn’t want to keep the baby. He behaves like he has as much (or even more) right to make the choices because he’s the father. HE HAS NO RIGHTS WHEN THE BABY IS IN HER BODY (and honestly, shouldn’t have that many rights after birth either because the baby should always be more the womans). I will fight to the end of the world for this sentence. He can NEVER make choices or force her to birth a child that will put her life, career and entire world in jeopardy because he put his sperm in her body. And his way to approach this with her and prove himself trustworthy and want to be involved in the baby’s life is by sending recommendations and reviews on baby products like he’s implying that she’s unable to make those decisions by herself. And please don’t mistake this paragraph as me thinking that men can’t or shouldn’t take responsibility and help out with the baby as much as women when it’s born, they just have no right to assume or force a woman to keep a baby. Men should most certainly take out as much paternity leave as women take out maternity and take responsibility for everything else as feeding and changing diapers etc.


I apologize to all my friends who has taken the brunt of my frustration by listening to me SCREAMING in voice messages because I can’t take this book any longer.

Babies & Promises A Secret Baby Romance

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