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Appearances certainly can deceive!, April 4, 2000
This review is from: Daddy's Home (Mass Market Paperback)
Dr. Jasmine Enderlin once loved Christopher Jordan wholeheartedly. But he betrayed her by marrying her sister, then abandoning his pregnant bride. Nevertheless, Jasmine forgives her sister's role in the betrayal, and when her sister dies, Jasmine embraces the opportunity to act as her nephew's guardian. However, Christopher's actions, past as well as present, force Jasmine to question her faith and emotions when the prodigal daddy returns to claim his three-month-old son. Christopher wants to explain his actions, but Jasmine's grief-fueled anger erects a wall that only love can destroy. As discoveries about Christopher's and his late wife's pasts chip away at Jasmine's emotional prison, she learns that the truth can, indeed, set one free. As with most romances, the characters and their relationships prove the long suit of Daddy's Home. Jasmine, the virginal but tough heroine, struggles to balance the escalating demands of career and motherhood against her crises of grief, faith, and the startling revelation that her love for Christopher never died. Christopher plays the gallant but misunderstood hero who does the wrong things for the right reasons. And, like most romances, this novel is all but devoid of plot. Yet Daddy's Home doesn't require a world-saving plot to be engaging, thought provoking and entertaining. Sometimes the world needs a gentle reminder that it can indeed be saved one infant--and one family--at a time.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
No kissing allowed!, October 25, 2011
This review is from: Daddy's Home (Mass Market Paperback)
I do not even know where to start... First of all, this book is about two people who were in love for a long time. But something went wrong. They promised to marry each other, then they had a fight and apparently broke up (though I'm still unclear about that). In fact, it sounds like Jasmine was even dating someone else when the bombshell was dropped... The love of her life was getting married, and to make matters worse, he was marrying her sister!!! Wait, it gets worse: Her sister was apparently pregnant with HIS baby!!! I tried to like this book...With everything inside me, I wanted to read it. I didn't like Jasmine. I didn't like Christopher. I didn't like what Christopher did to Jasmine or to anybody else. The reason for doing what he did was very weak and very immoral in my opinion. His reason for marrying Jenny and his reason for leaving her and their unborn son...I'm sorry, but I didn't like any of it!!! And then the kissing. Jasmine hated Christopher for what he did to her,, yet she allowed him to kiss her the instant he showed up on her doorstep, and many times thereafter. Their kisses were mutual efforts. I don'tn think there should have been any kissing at all going on. The whole story was pretty drab - it was sort of a back and forth sort of thing, and I'm still not sure what was going on. He wanted to tell her/he didn't want to tell her...She wanted to know yet she wouldn't let him tell her...She trusted him, she didn't trust him...They were always touching, always fighting, and always running from each other... Then there's the incident where he grabbed her hips and turned her around...uh, O...kay... Then there's the horses and her jumping on top of him and crying that he'd been hurt. I rolled my eyes at this point, like COME ON, GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!! And then there's their career indecision. First he was an EMT then suddenly out of the blue he decided to do something else? Then she was a doctor of the blue she wanted to do something else? Anyways, I gave it a two because i was able to get through it...
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Second Chance at Love, September 10, 2008
This review is from: Daddy's Home (Mass Market Paperback)
'Dr. Jasmine Enderlin had once loved Christopher Jordan with her whole heart. And he'd betrayed that love by marrying her sister and then abandoning his pregnant bride. Christopher's actions had made her question her faith. But now her sister was dead, Jasmine was the mother of their child and the prodical daddy had returned to claim his son...
Christopher wanted to explain what he had done, but Jasmine's hurt and nager prevented her from listening. Until she found her sister's well-worn Bible and learned that apperances could be deceiving.
Was God trying to tell her that Christopher deserved a second chance?'
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