Review: Cute Premise
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2012
An Unexpected Baby is the sequel to An Unexpected Bride and part of The Bride Series.This is a short and quick contemporary read with a simple plot. Basically Emma is worried her new husband isn't paying attention to her. He's working a lot of late nights and she's worried he's having second thoughts about their quickie wedding. Then Emma learns she's pregnant and Evan's entire attitude changes. He seems excited about the baby. Unfortunately, Emma learns she's misread the pregnancy test. Telling her husband and everyone else proves difficult, and soon Emma's innocent mistake makes her feel as if she's on a runaway train.The premise of this book sounded cute, which was why I chose to review it, and it is cute. There's a bit of humor, which I enjoyed, but I found myself distracted by the dialogue and the profusion of exclamation marks. In some cases the dialogue plain didn't work for me while many of the exclamation marks would be better replaced with full stops.The main character Emma got on my nerves, especially at the start. She comes across as immature and self-centered. Toward the end of the story she redeemed herself a little, and I softened toward her.Where the author got this story very right was the way she upped the stakes again and again for poor Emma. I started feeling sorry for Emma, her predicament and her worsening circumstances. I didn't think she could come out of this with her marriage intact and breathed a sigh of relief at the end. Well done in this respect, Ms. Richards.While this story didn't work for me as well as I'd hoped, the end did leave me with a smile.