A Baby on the Greek's Doorstep

3.25 stars. <br><br><br><i> <b>‘Someone’s abandoned a baby on the doorstep, sir,’ Mrs James informed him uncomfortably. <br><br>‘A little boy about nine months old.’<br><br><br>‘A...baby?’ Tor stressed in astonishment.</b> </i><br><br><br>A pretty good second chance, secret baby romance, mixed in with a tiny dollop of the convenient amnesiac H trope. <br><br><br>This story got off to a very dramatic start, when the heroine's ne'er do well brother, dropped off her son at the H's mansion. All that's enclosed, was a brief note: <br><br><br><i> <b>This is your child.<br>Look after it.</b> </i><br><br><br><br>This is baby Alfie:<br><br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1598976509i/30046782.jpg" width='600"height=600"alt="description"/' class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br><br>18 months before, the MC's had had a one night stand. The H had been drunk, since it was the 5th anniversary of his wife's and daughter's deaths. To complicate things further, he forgot all about the heroine and that night, after stumbling, head first, into a wall. <br><br><br>This is the H, Tor:<br><br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1598975713i/30046674._SY540_.jpg" width='600"height=600"alt="description"/' class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br><br><br>I had one huge issue with this story: the MC's first sex scene just didn't feel right. It was too abrupt and the insta-lust didn't quite work in this instance. It made the heroine seem kinda desperate, as well, because they went from exchanging a few confidences to jumping each other's bones. <br><br><br>This is the heroine, Pixie:<br><br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1598975713i/30046676._SY540_.jpg" width='600"height=600"alt="description"/' class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br><br><br>This is the sort of thing I'd expect from self published/Kindle Unlimited contemporary romances. Lynne Graham is supposed to have more finesse and style. It just seemed like a sleazy *hole in the corner* hook up, especially when the heroine dressed the sleeping H and left before he awoke. <br><br><br>Months later, when she turned up to tell him that she's 6 months pregnant, the amnesiac H think she's a crazy woman and orders his guards to escort her out of the building. Their lives converge again, only after her opportunistic brother abandoned little Alfie at the H's doorstep.<br><br><br><br>The DNA testing is followed by a marriage proposal and a fancy wedding in Greece. Much of the drama is caused by misunderstandings linked to the H's dead wife. This part was a bit tedious, because the dead wife was omnipresent and I grew slightly bored with this minor storyline. <br><br><br>She'd lied to him, claiming that their daughter Sofia had been fathered by the H's older half brother, Sev. The H spent most of the story brooding about this betrayal and swearing that he'd never love another woman again. I must be reading too many HP's, because this specific plot device has been overused so much, by every current author, it's almost morphed into a shtick.<br><br><br>The storyline had all the trademarks of an OTT angsty trainwreck, but the novel itself ended up being far too tame and predictable. My emotions weren't always engaged and I know that Lynne G has the potential for superior storytelling. The problem wasn't the storyline; the concept itself is awesome. It's the execution of the chosen tropes, that could've been better. <br><br><br>I'm still looking forward to the H's brother's novel and I hope that turns out to be more impressive. Lynne G writes a beautiful epilogue, though, with the MC's and their relatives celebrating Christmas together while they await the birth of the MC's twins.<br><br><br><b>Safety:</b> No OM, no OW and the heroine's celibate during their 18 month separation. The H's celibacy is unclear. In all fairness, he'd lost his memory and forgotten about the one night stand with the heroine, so technically I can't judge him for not being celibate in this specific instance.

My husband and I can be more illogical while arguing about who's going to vacuum the flat than the MCs arguing about his cheating ex-wife. ??‍♀️

Cute love story and totally safe. I was glad hero realized he was not in love with his first wife but I was sad about his daughter. So nice that he found happiness again with Pixie! She was a warm and kind heroine. Epilogue with their boy and pregnant with twins heroine was adorable. I can’t wait for Sev’s story. Pixie said he is a womanizer so that will be interesting! ❤️

I had a foreboding that this book would just not live up to LG’s standards. What gave it away: the fact that when the h and H have reconciled and spoken of marriage, the book is still only half way done! And not anywhere close to the ending. Silly as it sounds but I was reminding myself of quite a few of LG’s books and their hot alpha H’s or feisty h’s while this book droned on in the background of my head. <br /><br />Pixie (repugnant name, sorry) is staying somewhere briefly and looking after a friend’s cat. I couldn’t quite get her setting of using a fancy layover kind apartment that various people share coming and going. Maybe an air bnb of a kind. <br /><br />One of the nights she meets the H, Tor, who was quite frankly a torment to the hedonistic standard of an alpha billionaire. Tor was barely in his late twenties but forced to be brooding and boring. He is yet another newer version of LG’s beta heroes: mild, predictable, compromising, approachable and the snooze list goes on. <br /><br />And follows mediocre sex after which Pixie takes off to work and leaves Tor passed out on her bed. Soon after there’s a baby who is then left on Tor’s doorstep and he has a meeting with Pixie to discuss the incredulity of the situation since Tor has no recollection at all of their ONS. <br /><br />Unfortunately the deathly monotony of the plot and characters couldn’t save the book. Pixie is a young woman and works as a nurse. She’s easy and talks too much. She takes herself as a nurturer and that’s how her relationship/ interactions were with Tor. She was forever advising him or patting his back for whatever tough situation he had faced in life. She’d have been more suited to play the role of his nonna. <br /><br />There was no chemistry between the mcs. How could there be when the mc’s were forever having discussions and giving kindly suggestions to each other. The H is still stuck in his past and the h is needy and clingy. <br /><br />I feel betrayed by LG. I came to invest some of my feelings in her book but got put off rudely. I also dislike that in her newer books, the h is extremely basic and can’t stop ogling the H every chance she gets and is nothing short of worshipping his perfect body and features and other things. These desperate measures in a woman will forever stay on my trigger list!

4.5 stars ⭐️.<br />A cute love story that had all the usual LG ingredients. <br />Loved the hero-heroine. <br />Recommended.

3.5 Stars<br /><br />Altho, both MCs, Pixie &amp; Tor, were nice, their son, Alfie, adorable, &amp; the book had my fav tropes –secret baby, MOC, good/bad relatives--it was an average read for a LG book. <br /><br />I won’t get into the details of the story since my GR friend, Carmen (Ivy-H) has already summarized it beautifully. Do read her review. It echoes my exact feelings about the book especially when she says, “The storyline had all the trademarks of an OTT angsty trainwreck, but the novel itself ended up being far too tame and predictable.”<br /><br />It wasn’t a bad book. It had some lovely moments. Just that for a LG book expectations are high. It could have been much, much better.<br /><br />Although, Sev, Tor's half-brother, appeared for a blink-and-gone moment, he left me highly intrigued about his story. Looking forward to reading his book.<br />

*graded on a curve for Lynne Graham*<br /><br />The title explains the third meeting of the H/h. Their first meeting was a drunken (on the hero's part) ONS on the anniversary of the death of his wife and child. Their second meeting? Pregnant heroine confronts him in his office and he doesn't remember her.<br /><br />The heroine's half brother was the one who left the baby on his doorstep. Heroine was not planning on telling him. <br /><br />So tackiness all around.<br /><br />It all works out, but this hero wasn't the bewildered alpha LG specializes in. Nor did this h have the sunny straight-forwardness of her other heroines. They both seemed more stressed out than in love.<br /><br />Ivy has all the details in her excellent review.

I love classic Lynne Graham. She was my favorite HP author at one time. Now, I have to drag myself through her books. And this one is no different. <br /><br />An unexpected ONS leads to an unexpected pregnancy. Fast forward a bit and a nine month old baby is left ON THE DOORSTEP of the H’s house with a note claiming the child is his. <br /><br />The H is all “not my bebeh” until the h shows up and claims that the baby is his after a ONS. She was a virgin so no other potential baby daddies in the picture. <br /><br />As I said earlier, I had to draaag myself through this book. It just went on and on. I had very little love for the characters in the book. And the h’s piece of shit brother needed to go to jail for leaving his nephew on some rando’s doorstep. WTF?! Plus he stole his sister’s inheritance and gambled it away, got his butt kicked by the mob types that he owed gambling money to. A real winner, this one. But his sister loves him and wanted to help him. <br /><br />Ummmmm .... he left your beloved baby on someone doorstep. Nope. We are done. <br /><br />Yeah, this one wasn’t a winner.

A safe and good read ! Nothing special! <br />Excited about the brother's book (Sev)

It had all the makings of a serious angst-fest but LG toned down the crazy ... which made it kinda sweet ... so enjoyable but not what LG can deliver when she is in the mood ...