Review: Disappointed in this one.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
I liked this book a lot better when it was called Daddy, Daddy and Me. I had to force myself to finish reading this because I kept comparing it with DD&M and found A Family of His Own lacking in comparison. Both books have gorgeous men that had recently lost a loved one and were left with kids to raise on their own while working jobs that force them to be very stressed and work a large number of hours, making a nanny a necessity, and both books have nannies that also happen to be gorgeous guys that love kids and also love to cook. Both nannies have to show these dads how to be fathers, since for whatever reason neither man is that sure of what he is supposed to be doing with his kids. It's not that it wasn't well written, because it's a Sean Michael book so of course it was, it's just that I couldn't connect to the characters. I found the scenes with the children very repetitive and annoying and I didn't really like Benji; he seemed entirely too judgmental about how Will was handling losing his partner of ten years and how Will had chosen to raise the three children left behind. Benji had never been in a long term relationship and had never had children of his own so I thought that his scolding of Will and how he was handling this loss was hypocritical.