Review: 2.5 stars on the brink of 3 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2012
Why?  I didn't buy the reasons behind this heroine's thoughts for keeping their child away from the father.  In fact, she was cruel in every sense of the word.  SHE left him because she wanted to live in the lap of luxury. Lo & behold it doesn't pan out that way and just because of a short lived marriage that her very young self based every cliched reason on that said husband didn't want children.  BS!  It was an excuse because she didn't want to admit that she was wrong after losing everything and struggling on her own as a single parent that she placed herself in.NOPE I can't finish this.  First off, I skimmed most of it, a lot of the words were pretty much the same.  Do they have amazing chemistry.  Yes when she isn't denying it.  He isn't as bad though he was denying it only because he had been hurt and, come on!  He's a guy his ego was bruised, his heart crushed because he was banking on dreams while his young wife was banking on luxury.  UGH this book pissed me off.  Sure Barbara Bretton swapped their roles out by giving him the turnaround billionaire status and her the rags.  I think the attempt was to have his ex-wife step into his shoes while he stepped into hers.  Except he handles it better and with class.  He doesn't flaunt it.So I may not have finished this...I just couldn't.  This heroine pissed me off.  I'm a single mother and even my jerk of an ex knows about his child...and is a part of her life.  UGH!!  I've read that Jenny doesn't take to Jake as quickly...I think that in itself was cruel way to go. IT shouldn't have been Jake who had to work hard, it should have been Megan!!!! Jenny should have been highly curious at her age AND wondering why she never met him or saw him.  My own daughter was constantly questioning things at 5/6.  Jenny should NOT have been indifferent to him, she should have been intrigued and well a kid who adapts just as she mentions during a daddy talk with her mother!  This was just not believable.  I may grit my teeth and try to bare through it...but as a single parent this pissed me off.  I've read books like this about secret kids BUT I've read better reasons for not telling the father about it.  This one just wasn't plausible at all.  It was vague and based primarily on a young girls superficial luxurious upbringing that made her assume Jake wouldn't want kids.  HE WAS ENJOYING MARRIED LIFE!  UGH I hated HATED this heroine.  Jake...Jake was better written.  BUT he was still written in a way that at times contradicted to what we found out about him.  And Bad Boy?  Really?  He was just sex on legs who fell for Megan hook line and sinker.  Left him crushed and he felt things were not settled between them.  And not to mention, she too felt this way?  God CONSTANT back and forth.  Gave me a headache...I'm truly sorry.  I just couldn't ease the tension I felt for the plot and the reasons behind a lot of this story.Honestly, I'd rework it finding a better reason so that it flows better.  Decent effort...just wasn't for me.  Though I wished it was because I love stories like these.