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3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing, July 6, 2011
This review is from: Quarterback Daddy (Harlequin Super Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm a huge fan of Linda Barrett and I'd buy just about anything she wrote but this book was a disappointment to me. It just fell flat for me. The characters were one dimensional and I never felt or understood the attraction/chemistry between the hero and heroine. A huge disappointment for me.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Linda Barrett pens pure pleasure., February 9, 2010
This review is from: Quarterback Daddy (Harlequin Super Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
Sherri had been nine months pregnant when she died in the back of an ambulance. Her sister, Alexis Brown, had been with Sherri at the time. With her last breath, Sherri revealed the identity of her baby's father. Little Michelle had been born shortly thereafter by emergency C-section in the ambulance.
To care for her niece, Alexis took time off from her job as a prosecutor for the District Attorney's Office. However, Ally still owed a lot for student loans and Sherri's funeral. Michelle is now three months old and Ally has only a couple of weeks to solve her cash flow problem and find suitable day care or she will lose Michelle to the legal system. So Ally wraps her courage around herself like a shield and goes to introduce Michelle to her unsuspecting biological father.
Dan Delito is the starting quarterback and captain for the New England Patriots. When he first sees Ally he thinks he is seeing the ghost of his deceased wife, Kim. Ally's resemblance is uncanny. As for Ally, she is immediately hit with the strong smell of alcohol. Seeing Dan totally drunk, Ally refuses to tell Dan about Michelle. Once Dan learns about the baby, he swears that not another drop of alcohol will enter his system. Dan and his family are thrilled about Michelle. Ally is happy to see the instant love bestowed upon her niece, but had hoped to share custody. So when Dan calls Ally and actually begs her to become Michelle's live-in nanny (the applicants were horrible), the decision to place her lawyer career on hold is easy. Then their uneasy friendship begins to bloom into a possible romance. Can Ally trust Dan to never touch alcohol? Does Dan really see Ally or a stand-in for Kim? Looks like the paparazzi will be the least of their problems.
**** FOUR STARS! Ally is a strong character and it fast became clear to me that she would go to any lengths necessary to ensure Michelle receives the best of care. Even if that meant not getting partial custody of her. Like Ally, I am not a football fan; yet this story tackled my heartstrings from the beginning. An "abso-pos-a-tutely" warm romance that will leave you with a big smile upon your face and a spring in your steps. Linda Barrett pens pure pleasure. ****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
sometimes these books should be longer..., June 11, 2010
Quarterback Daddy by Linda Barrett is about Alexis Brown, an attorney at the D.A.'s office and current guardian of Michelle Brown and Dan Delito, superstar football player and unknown daddy to Michelle Brown.
Alexis was the responsible sister since she was a child, while her dad was a mean drunk and her mother an enabler she was left to care for her younger sister Sherri, but as they grew up Alexis stayed the responsible one managing to get through college and law school to get a job at the D.A.'s office while Sherri had dead end jobs and partied. But when her sister showed up pregnant the two of them seemed to become close and were planning on raising the baby together. But when Sherri is murdered and Alexis needs help raising her niece, she has no choice but to go to the babies father. She just hopes it wont be a horrible mistake.
Dan Delito has been the star quarterback for years, but since he lost his wife two years ago his personal life has taken a turn for the worse. When he doesn't have a game he has to practice for he's usually drinking himself into oblivion. But when he meets Alexis and the cute baby she has in tow something changes. And when he learns the truth will he be able to have his kid and her auntie too?
Sometimes with these types of novels you get lucky and sometimes you don't. With Quarterback Daddy it's a draw between the good and bad, the story is good and interesting to read and even kinda cute, but the development in plot and characters just happens too fast and takes away from some of the good of the story. Overall it was a cute read nothing more.
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