Review: waste of time
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2012
Wish I could give zero stars.The story is unbelievable. It seems like the beginnining of a story you'd see on Dateline. I wonder if this all took place in the male character's mind and the untold story is that he used the baby to lure our heroine in and then murdered her.Spoiler Alert- this guy sits his sleeping baby niece under a Christmas tree while he shops and when the store owner mistakes her for an abandoned orphan, he doesn't correct her because he is lonely on Christmas Eve and wants to go home with the woman rather than go home by himself. He later realizes the only way this fantasy can end happily is if he gets the woman (a widow who lost her husband and young son in a car accident) to fall in love with him, so he works his magic and ends up seducing her so that he can intentionally get her PREGNANT to replace not only the baby she lost, but also the baby he wanted but his ex terminated. Super unselfish plan. Later, the woman discovers his 'lie of omission' and abruptly leaves. Yay! Good for her! Soon, however, the baby's real mother (Romeo's sister in law) brings the baby by the store and tells the woman that her walking away hurt Romeo so badly that he won't see the baby anymore.. and she should feel awful that she is depriving the baby of time with her uncle. So what does our heroine do? She hunts him down at his office to confess her undying love for him and beg him to father their child.1) who finds an abandoned child and and decides to take it home instead of immediately calling the police?2) what mother goes on a ski trip with her husband and leaves her 9 month old with her husband's unmarried brother for the baby's first Christmas?3) what sane woman invites a stranger to come home with her to help care for the orphan baby, even allowing him into her bed and a key to her apt to come and go as he pleases over the next week?I have other questions but I'll just say, I was more than disappointed in these characters, unable to believe they could ever really exist or that any part of this story could ever be true. This is easily the worst story I have ever read and I am sorry I wasted my time. I wonder why the author wasted hers.