No doubt about it, Lucy Basso's hands are full. As if that's not enough, hottie Dominic Bianco is showing more than a little interest in her. Even her impending motherhood doesn't seem to faze him. In fact, he's acting as tender and protective as if she were carrying his baby.
But something seems to be keeping Dom from fully committing to her. If Lucy could only know what it is, she might understand. Or maybe she'd tell him it doesn't matter.
Because she knows he's a good man and he'd make an ideal father. What is going on in this story?????? By milla I fell in love with the cover and the summary! I was really enjoying the cute sweet vibe, but then it totally went off track. I loved the progress of lucia and dominic getting to know each other. Then they got into bed with each other and it just seemed like lucy didn't even like him that much!
I was so bored by the whole "situation" with them that I could no longer read I stopped with 3 chapters left and I don't plan to read them!
Lucy finds herself pregnant and Marcus her long term boyfriend of eight years and the father of the baby had abandoned her and moved onto greener pastures with his yoga instructor. With an unforeseeable future, Lucy is determined to do right by her baby. Her sister Rosie and her husband Andrew together with their mom Sophie tries to help Lucy along.
Lucy's own business which just barely started off which dealt with delivering fresh groceries to restaurants around the neighborhood brings her into contact everyday with Dom, the son of the owner of her wholesaler. Dom has always had an interest in Lucy but the timing had never seemed to be right for him to show his interest in her. Dom had just recently being divorced and was finally thinking about approaching Lucy when he finds out that she is pregnant.
Original Title. Lucy Basso , Dominic Bianco. Melbourne, Victoria Australia Australia. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about A Natural Father , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of A Natural Father. Jul 19, Jacob Proffitt rated it liked it Shelves: steamy , romance.
My least favorite from Sarah Mayberry to date, but that still makes it a fun read. Most of this story is forecast from the beginning; you can see the twists coming from miles ahead and none of them fail to turn up on time and in costume.
Still, I was never tempted to put it down or move on. Most of that is due to the lead characters. Dom is one of those hot sweeties you can't help falling for from the start and Lucy is as engaging in her way as well. I fell for both right from the start and Maybe My least favorite from Sarah Mayberry to date, but that still makes it a fun read.
I fell for both right from the start and Mayberry is good enough for that to be mostly enough. For me, anyway. I suppose my biggest disappointment is that my very least favorite "romance" trope pops up near the end scare quotes because I don't find it romantic at all and, indeed, find it a betrayal of love in a fundamental way. That's right, the "doing something hurtful for your own good" trope rears its ugly head. I hate this because it's the opposite of love.
Love means trust and companionship. It means working together because you acknowledge that you no longer function as individuals but as a team. You can't be a team if you aren't making decisions together. It doesn't work. Which is what makes it a betrayal of love. Worse, though, both characters were more mature than that and they should have known better. So yeah, a couple of chapters are kind of a loss, with lots of pain and heartache that was out of place. It would have been much better to have had them have the discussion and make it something they had to work out together.
Because really, the second half of that stupid trope was that the underlying issue got swept under the rug with them breezing by it without actually addressing it directly. It was something that could have been done on-screen and its lack was a real lost opportunity. And yes, I'm being coy about details because spoilers.
Anyway, it was fun spending time with Dom and Lucy up until the stupidity hit. Their courtship was interesting and I enjoyed myself, making this a solid three stars, but not any higher. A note about Steamy : On the low side. There's a single explicit scene and it gets a little vague, at that. Not short, exactly, just not terribly, er, involved When he suggests a sperm donor or adoption, his wife refuses and asks for a divorce. With his marriage destroyed and feeling totally rejected, Dom decides to take a break from the family wholesale produce market and travels to Italy for six months.
When Lucy's boyfriend of eight years dumps her for a young yoga instructor, she's heartbroken. A month after the break up she learns that she's pregnant, only her ex-boyfriend insists he's in love with his new woman and really isn't ready for a child in his life.
She's on her own and she needs to make her new produce distribution business succeed and the way to do that is to expand. When Dominic returns to the family business he's happy to see that Lucy is still a loyal customer. He learns that she's looking for capital to expand and offers to become her partner. And with every moment he spends with her he realizes just how special Lucy is. Only she wants to be able to give her baby brothers and sisters some day, so he backs away. This is a story of two souls who have been rejected by the one they've loved.
I adored Dom from the first pages. Whenever Lucy needed him he never let her down, he was always there. I admired Lucy's resolve and her strength to carry on even though her world is falling apart. Their reconciliation is wonderfully written and brought tears to my eyes. Mayberry's first SuperRomance is a lovestory that warmed my heart View 2 comments. Aug 11, Margo rated it did not like it Shelves: quick-hre.
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. He has sex with her and implies he cares for her even though she is pregnant with another man's baby. Then he pushes her away because he is sterile, without talking to her.
Bonus points for doing it during her already stressful pregnancy. Then he insists on dissolving their business partnership unilaterally at 34 weeks, in an insulting, cold way, giving her his half of the business as a way to assuage his guilty conscience.
She rejects it angrily, immediately going into premature labor, of cou He has sex with her and implies he cares for her even though she is pregnant with another man's baby.
She rejects it angrily, immediately going into premature labor, of course. This book doesn't deserve a full recap that typically comes with a healing revisionist epilogue, but since I hate H's who are cruel to pregnant women, here's a quick resolution: She takes his money after all and leaves, but not before telling him that he has restored her faith in a just God who made sure the H's line would end with him.
She also tells him calmly that he is not a nice guy, so any woman who is involved with him will end up hating him. Her words haunt him and he never has another relationship with a woman, so he never learns that his diagnosis of sterility was actually incorrect.
View 1 comment. Sep 03, Joan rated it did not like it. Contrived sappy story. Get this Enter the pumped and dumped, pregnant Lucy. She's saved by a knight in shining armor and he has an insta family! These two sad-sack characters glom onto each other as lifelines but not a soul-deep passionate love. This is why I detest contemporary stories. A Natural Father was a pretty nice read. Lucy Basso's life is a mess, she has been dumped by her boyfriend of 8 years, is pregnant and has to break the news to her Italian mother, who single-handedly raised both her kids and wanted better for them.
On top of the Lucy's self-business can't seem to get a loan from the bank and she is staying with her elder sister Rosie and her husband Andrew. Dominic Bianco has just returned home after a 6 month stay in Italy. Dom left after his marriage broke-down A Natural Father was a pretty nice read. Dom left after his marriage broke-down over his inability to have kids.
Dom has always had a thing for Lucy, they grew up in the same neighborhood but circumstances get in the way but now he thinks things can finally fall into place. Lucy visits his father's store often and Dom is shocked to find that she is pregnant and thinks she is married but his father soon disabuses him of that. Dom decides to stay away from her not because she is pregnant but because she is in a very fragile place right now but somehow Dom's frustration with his father unwilling to have a say in their business ends up in Dom becoming Lucy's business partner and coming in frequent contact.
I totally loved Dom, he is so careful with Lucy and so loving and caring. He cooks for her, sweet. Lucy had a lot to work through, handling single motherhood, accepting the fact that her ex didn't even want to be a part of her baby's life.
There are a lot of things in way of Dom and Lucy and most of the reluctance is from Lucy's side, for one she is pregnant. I liked the way everything was handled in the book. There is a story-line about the other sister and how afraid she is of becoming a mother. I liked how Lucy gave it to Dom in the end for just presuming what she wanted instead of just asking.
The book was pretty good. Feb 14, Sassafrass rated it really liked it Shelves: romance , z-src-wi , z-challenge-books , z Another sweet CR from Sarah Mayberry! This was so sweet. I fell in love with both Lucy and Dominic.
Ever since she learned to read and write she has wanted to be an author. She studied professional writing and literature before embarking on various writing-related jobs, working as a magazine editor and in various story-related roles on Australia's longest running serial drama, Neighbours. Sarah Mayberry can write a romance, and A Natural Father fits the bill. After my not-so-hot experience with Below the Belt, maybe the author shouldn't be trying so hard to mesh her free flowing style into category romance.
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