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3.0 out of 5 stars
Stranded in a blinding snowstorm, pregnant and alone, June 23, 2004
This review is from: Detective... Daddy (Silhouette Special Edition No. 1602) (Mass Market Paperback)
Dan Sorenson was alone in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, healing from being shot in the leg in the line of duty. When a blinding snowstorm comes, he leaves the light on - and discovers a very pregnant, nearly frozen woman standing on his doorstep. His immediate reaction is to warm her up, but he then discovers she's in labor. Dan delivers her baby and manages to take care of mother and daughter while Fay recovers. He's immediately drawn to the little baby, and the baby's mother as well.
Fay Merriweather was immensely glad that she had found Dan Sorenson's cabin. Without him, surely she and her baby would have died out in the wilderness. She fights her attraction for him, blaming it on close proximity and her gratitude towards him. Her baby's father had died of leukemia, and she's determined to never marry or have any more children. So when it's time to go back to her hometown, will she be able to put Dan out of her life for good?
This book was okay. I really liked the character of Dan, because he seemed so real. He was also patient, kind, and just about everything you'd want in a romantic hero. Fay, on the other hand, was not so likeable. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't bring myself to like her. She was very childish. She held grudges against people for an unhealthy length of time. She refuses to get involved with anyone who she doesn't view as ambitious enough, because she likes the power and money that comes with it. She looks down on anyone who she doesn't think is ambitious enough when it comes to their jobs, regardless how happy they are with their jobs. She was also completely irrational. She was complaining that Dan didn't call her for a week, but never did it even enter her mind that she could call him. In fact, through the entire book, I don't think she ever called him, she always relied on him to call her, and then she'd complain when he didn't call her when she wanted! She was very emotionally insecure and insanely jealous for no reason. She also refused to tell Dan that she had named her baby after him, for no good reason at all. It was really tiring to read about Fay.
Other than Fay, the book's characters were pretty good. I liked Fay's father, who Fay seemed to dislike for most of the book because he had tried to talk her into getting an abortion (he was only doing it because he was afraid of all the stress that would come with being a single parent). I also liked Nell, Fay's father's companion, although Fay seemed to dislike her because her father was showing interest in anyone. I really wanted to shake some sense into Fay. She was supposed to be a grown woman, not some petulant child who sulked because everything didn't go her way. Altogether, the book was a three-star story. It would have rated higher if Fay would have acted like an adult, but sadly enough, that never happened.
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