Review: Slightly Better Than The First
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
I wasn't a huge fan of the first book (Diary of an Expectant Father), but got both of these at the same time and decided to give the second a try.  It's a bit better in some ways and similar in others.  The book is billed as humor, but as with the first, the humor falls flat with me.  Many of the jokes are the same (such as diary entries being directed at future alien overlords) or are a bit juvenile in nature (such as focusing on the baby vomiting or having diaper issues) or are simply not funny (such as is the case when the grandparents and mother insist on giving the baby alcohol to get it to sleep).  That said, the story does improve a bit over the first.  There is less focus on the narrator's food service job, and there is more interesting entries in the book such as the narrator's struggle with whether to introduce the child to religion or not.  Overall, it's an improvement over the first book, but not a great read in general.