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Narrated by:
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Michael Ferraiuolo
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By:
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L.A. Witt
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Holden Russell let his job consume his life for too long, and it took his wife leaving for him to realize it’s time for a change. His marriage is over, but he’s determined to do right by his kids, starting with fewer hours at work and more with them. Except it’s no longer the kids competing with his job for his attention. It’s Holden competing for their attention…with their new live-in nanny. Their very hot male live-in nanny.
Porter Blake never saw himself becoming a nanny, but okay. After burnout and PTSD drove him from his job as a paramedic, he’s desperate for something new, and it turns out the nanny gig isn’t so bad. The pay is decent, the stress is manageable, the kids are great, and their mom is cool. It’s the ex-husband he’s not so sure about.
The situation is awkward enough when Porter and Holden are butting heads. When they find some common ground and their mutual attraction becomes too much to ignore, things are bound to get complicated.
And unless they want Porter to lose his job, they’re going to have to fly under the ex-wife’s radar. Except secrets like this have a way of coming out….
©2019, 2020 L.A. Witt (P)2020 L.A. WittI loved this!
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Sweet divorcee-falls-for-manny romance!
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Firstly, Tiffany is awful and irrational, and while there is nothing wrong with that (characters, and real people, are like that sometimes) what made it unbearable to read was that in the story she is treated as though she is perfectly rational/reasonable. All the characters agree with her on everything, even in their own heads, even when she's being completely irrational. This made the MCs feel shallow (or maybe just spineless and stupid) unable to think for themselves. In reality, people would at the very least question the logic of some of the things she was demanding of them.
As an extension of that, the idea of someone who already knows their own kids, who gets along with them, and is known to be trustworthy, being asked to shadow the nanny purely so he can get to know their kids' routines is taking things a little far. But I could accept it. I could be considered annoying to the person, but reasonable. But that the dad was expected to do this indefinitely, before even being left alone with the kids he already knows and gets along with, is stupid. I mean, he has met the kids before, they get along, he's proven he's good with kids and has even raised one before, so he wouldn't need to do more than ask the nanny a few questions, maybe get a print out of bedtimes and basic routines, then he could wing the rest. That the dad was criticized for being upset about being asked to shadow the nanny indefinitely, before he's allowed alone with his own kids, just because he doesn't know their routines, is stupid. And it has nothing to do with male pride being hurt. That even other male characters put this down to fragile male ego, was even more ridiculous. I know the premise needed the MCs to spend time together, but this could've been done in a more logical way, or at the very least they could've acknowledged in their own heads, how stupid Tiffany was being in asking this.
Anyway, maybe the real problem was that I just couldn't connect to any of the characters, or understand anything they thought or did. They didn't feel real, and too much of what they thought felt like plot conveniences, so I just couldn't enjoy the story.
This was a bit of a harsh review, but I still love Witt's style and Michael's narration. This book was just a pass for me.
Great performance, but DNF
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