Last Minute Fiancé (First Time #2)
Carrie Ann Ryan
Blurb:
One
positive test later, and I’m not only pregnant with my best friend’s baby, but
I’m falling for him too.
Except
when my ex finds out at work, I do the worst thing I could at that moment: I
lie.
I
make up a fake fiancé and my boss overhears.
Now
I need my best friend to play the part. He’s good at it, too, since we can’t
keep our hands off each other.
When
we’re both forced to lean on each other, we’ll have to face facts.
There’s
nothing fake about this relationship.
Even
if I’ll break my heart in the process.
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 4.25 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
Well,
if you have ever wondered what happened when two people who are hiding their
feelings for one another find themselves a little bit too drunk together, now
you know. Carrie Ann Ryan takes us on a fun and interesting, but emotionally
tragic and painfully traumatic story as two people slowly find their way out of
the trouble them get themselves into and into the future of love and a new
family within a family. Luca Cassidy and
Addison Lily haven’t been friends for a long time, but their immediate
connection made their friendship deeper than either of them could ever explain
to anyone else. The chemistry between them however is something that neither of
them would ever acknowledge if they were sober, but one night of their
inhibitions being down leave them with a lifelong consequence when Addison
turns up pregnant. At the same time,
Addison is up for a prestigious promotion at work and needs to show she is a
serious relationship so Luca steps in to fool her coworkers and support her
like a good friend should. But spending
time together as a couple, even a fake one, means that Luca and Addison are
finding it harder to hide their true feelings for one another and continuously
fall to their passion. But can they
really get past their fears and past tragedies in order to give their future a
real chance and find their happiness, or will all the obstacles in their way
keep them from being a true family?
I
will preface this part of my review by saying I am not a baby person, so
whenever a pregnancy comes up in a story I tend to begin to lose interest,
especially when they start to fast-forward and I know the baby will actually
make an appearance. But thankfully Ryan
is skilled enough that I didn’t mind the little guy’s appearance in Luca and Addison’s
lives too much and he added to their story instead of detracting as so often is
the case. Addison has been trapped for
so long, slamming her head against the glass ceiling as she tries to make a
name for herself in her chosen career, that she has lost site of the truth of
happiness. We don’t work to be happy; we
work in order to find happiness outside of work; in order to live a truly
balanced life, you must have more than just work in your life, and she just was
not able to reach that until her epiphany and finally learning her lesson far
too late in the story. I loved seeing
her eyes slowly being opened with the help of Luca and her friends and once she
learned the lesson finding an all-new way to be happy in her career with a new
and more fulfilling path. The love she denies having for Luca for so long is
certainly obvious to the rest of us, but he offers him so deep a friendship and
partnership that it’s still enjoyable to watch.
Luca is a sweet, lovable, affable, and giving individual that has had so
much crap thrown at him in his life that I am thrilled he finally, if totally
by an accident of fate, found a way to get his HEA with a woman worthy of his
heart. His past heartbreak and family
drama makes him wary of his feelings in the beginning, but he quickly comes to
understand and admit his love for Addison, if only to himself. I also loved seeing how determined he was to
show he was all in on being a dad and partner to Addison for every step and
everything she needed as they finally made a future together. This family is one that I am thrilled we are
getting to learn more about, another spin-off of those crazy Montgomerys, but
they are almost more heartbreaking to learn about at times than even the
originals. Carrie Ann never lets me down and her skill with a plot and
characters terrifies and amazes me more with each story she sends my way.
*eARC provided by author for the
purpose of an honest and unbiased review.
No compensation was provided.
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