"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened
and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you
and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse,
and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."
Ernest Hemingway

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

A Dad for Billie

23843292
HQN Books
A Dad for Billie
Susan Mallery
1993

The Summary
"From the moment a baseball smashes through his window, banker Adam Barrington's life is never quite the same.  The guilty party, an eight-year-old tomboy, soon turns his household upside down.  But that shock is nothing compared to when Adam discovers who Billie's mother is...

"Jane Southwick knows that coming back home won't be easy, and that living next door to Adam again will be sweet torture.  But it's pure joy to see the delightful bond growing between him and her daughter, despite the guilty secret that clutches at Jane's heart."

The Good
I love Susan Mallery.  She's one of my favorite contemporary romance novelists, and I can't say I've really been disappointed by any of her books.  While A Dad for Billie isn't my absolute favorite by Mallery, it's a fun, sweet story with an adorable kid (she's so accident prone and messy; she's wonderful) and a lovely, complex romance that will warm your heart.

 The Bad
It has many of the tropes familiar to romance novels.  It's predictable; however, I found the predictability reassuring.

 The Ugly
Nothing, truthfully.  It's a sweet, mild little romance that invariably made me smile and feel all the warm fuzzies.
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