Babymoon or Bust by Ava Hunter
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Tessie Truelove has spent her entire life avoiding . . . well, true love. And why wouldn’t she? Her dog ran off, her father left to go get cigarettes and never came back, and her mother passed away years ago. Instead, Tessie, a celebrity interior designer, clings to her to-do lists and her Pantone colors and her toxic job to avoid more heartbreak. But after too much whiskey and a wild night with a rugged stranger has her seeing two little pink lines, she vows to do motherhood all by herself. After all, it might be her one shot at true love.
Nothing will interrupt her plans. Not even Solomon Wilder—her muscled, bearded, brooding baby daddy—who stomps his way into her perfectly planned babymoon after learning about her pregnancy. Stuck together in paradise, the two strike a deal: spend three days together to figure out how to raise their son. Complete opposites, they have nothing in common except the bump between them. Tessie has her glamorous career in LA, and Solomon has his wild life in Alaska. Yet as the babymoon takes a turn for the steamy and Solomon breaks through the emotional walls Tessie’s spent years guarding, she starts to wonder if she and this gruff, flannel-wearing mountain man might be meant to do more than just share a baby—they might be meant to share a heart.
Babymoon or Bust
I do love going on a tropical vacation in a story!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 🤓😀😘☺️
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
The heroine: Tessie Truelove – she is a workaholic. An interior designer for the stars, she loves everything about interior design, though she isn’t too fond of her boss and isn’t happy with the fact that the cost of living in Los Angeles is so high that working as much as she does, doesn’t offer her a better life. After a big job in Nashville, she decides to take a night off and get drunk.
The Hero: Solomon Hunter – he lost his wife seven years ago and basically became a hermit in his cabin in the mountains outside Chinook Alaska. He used to be a chef in the bar he and his friend own, but after his wife died, he didn’t feel like being anywhere in public. Now that the bar has gotten some publicity and is doing well, he and his business partner, Howler need to renovate the place and update it, so they go to Nashville to get some ideas by doing a tour of country bars.
The Story: Solomon and Tess hook up at a dive bar in Nashville, but don’t even exchange names. Months later, Tess finds out she is pregnant and has no way to contact Solomon. So, when he sees her showing off her latest project on an entertainment television show, and sees that she is pregnant, he goes to California to find her. He finds her cousin who tells him about the babymoon Tess was taking in Mexico and suggests he take her place as Tess’s guest.
I love the secret baby/unexpectedly pregnant trope, I also love the romance on vacation trope. I don’t take many vacations myself, so the next best thing is to read about people out enjoying fun in the sun. I didn’t know how this one was going to go, since Tess lives in Los Angeles and Solomon lives in Alaska, but I liked how this went. It was a bit too long for the type of story it was, I got a bit bored at times while listening to it and I did hate the name of the heroine, Tessie Truelove is a bit tacky for a romantic heroine.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Aiden Snow and C.J. Bloom. I am not all that fond of C.J. Bloom’s voice, she sounds quite a bit older than Tess. Aiden Snow is one of my all-time favorite male narrators. He has a deep, sexy voice which is perfect for Rowan and is great at doing different voices for different characters.
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