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A Baby for Christmas

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I love McAllister, but this one . . . not so much.

Basically, the hero is too unlikeable. For the first half of the book, all he does is rage and sulk and complain. That is ALL he brings to the table. And where does all this anger and unhappiness come from? His parents' divorce, and father's subsequent marriage to the heroine's mother. All of this happened a decade ago. His father has been dead for something like seven years. He hasn't even seen the heroine in nine. And he doesn't have the excuse that he was a kid when it all went down; he was in his twenties. Come ON!

In the second half of the book, he decides that possibly he had been a jerk. Still thinks her mom wasn't good enough to marry into the family, but maybe he shouldn't have punished his dad for marrying her? So, he's trying to be nice to our heroine all of a sudden. But his first response in two later situations (neither involving her) is the same rush to judgment and instant fury. So, this isn't situational, this is his personality. She even recognizes this, mentally ruminates that if they married, he wouldn't cheat on her because he IS so judgemental. If she was my girlfriend, I'd be suggesting she RUN, far and fast.

One note: the hero was a writer, but the books were non-fiction and he was more the expert consultant. His brother - then, the heroine - did the actual writing, turned the information into a book that would sell. I thought that was a little different, and I liked it. But that is pretty much all I liked.

Buy almost anything else by McAllister instead.