A Baby of Her Own (Mills & Boon Romance) [Hardcover]

Kate Hardy (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Mills & Boon (September 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263175782
• ISBN-13: 978-0263175783
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Much ado over little, but still good, February 16, 2004

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Anza Carrillo "heavenlyanza" (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Baby of Her Own (Medical Romance) (Paperback)

Jodie Price, a pediatrician who absolutely adores children, is always friendly and upbeat. She loves playing with the kids in her care, and even comes in on her off time to spend time playing with the children. Even she's surprised, however, when she invites her boss Sam Taylor, called "Mr. Frosty" because of his glacial demeanor, to an after-hours hangout. She's even more surprised when he accepts - and his frosty exterior starts to warm up a little.

Sam Taylor keeps himself closed off from everyone - his staff, his family, even the children under his care at the pediatric unit. So he's more than a little surprised when Jodie - fun-loving, adorable, interesting Jodie - tries to engage him in conversation. He finds Jodie irrisistable, but he knows that the only thing he can offer her is a short-term affair. Sam knows that he is infertile, and the bittersweet torture of spending all of his professional time around children doesn't compare to the tortue of knowing that he can't give Jodie what she'll eventually want - a baby. His first marriage broke up over his infertility, and he's convinced that he's completely unsuitable for marriage - especially to someone as wonderful as Jodie. So after a short affair, Sam is determined to cut himself out of Jodie's life - but Jodie isn't so ready to give up on him!

I really liked the premise of this story, but something just fell flat in this book. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, and I really did enjoy it. I loved both Jodie and Sam, they were a perfect match for one another, and the fact that the romance was set in a pediatric ward was a definite plus to this nursing student :) I loved the cast of secondary characters, who were all sufficiently fleshed out, but not to the point of taking over the entire story, and even the foreign lingo didn't slow me down, although English is not my native language. I was never quite sure if this story was set in Australia or England, though.

Anyway, the part that somewhat annoyed me was the repetitive arguments between Sam and Jodie once they know they like each other. I mean, there is only so many ways to say, "Hey, you want a baby, I can't have a baby, let's not get together." The fact that Sam and Jodie didn't even seriously consider the alternatives to having a biological child - adoption, for a very big example - kind of rankled me. I just wanted to yank them each out of the story, give them a good shake, and say, "It's not the end of the world, you know! You can always adopt!"

That was really the only thing that bothered me, however. In short, this was a very interesting book, and a reversal on the "woman is infertile, man wants children" theme that I have read in several books. Pick this one up, even if you don't usually like medical romances, I'm sure that you'll like this one :)