Dr. Lucas Goode doesn’t want to become his father.
Sadie Green wants someone to see her and be proud of what she can accomplish.
In a weird convergencDr. Lucas Goode doesn’t want to become his father.
Sadie Green wants someone to see her and be proud of what she can accomplish.
In a weird convergence of events, Luke has a spare room he’d like to fill because he’s not used to living alone, and after accidentally becoming pregnant after a spontaneous fling Sadie feels that living with her parents and brother isn’t something that will work out for her anymore.
Why not? They’re not strangers: Sadie works with Sage (Luke’s sister-in-law), after all. The only true boundary they’re flirting with is that Sadie is Luke’s student. That’s fine, though, because Luke doesn’t want a relationship or kids and Sadie wants to see if she can get the baby daddy to be less flakier than dandruff. They’re just roommates. Just. Roommates.
I’ve never made a secret of the fact I’m normally not a fan of the pregnancy trope, especially when the FMC is pregnant for the majority of the book and the pregnancy itself is a large part of the plot. (Please don’t ask me why because I can’t figure it out). Leave it to the fabulous Sara Cate to take one of my icks and make it tasty, because I adored this book.
As I was thinking about why I adored this book so much I think it really just boiled down to how much I love how Sara writes her characters: the candor, vulnerability, flaws, strengths, eroticism, and intrinsic essence of them as a human being. Luke and Sadie don’t just have off-the-charts chemistry with one another on the page, but they both have amazing relationships and conversations with the various other cast members in the book that reveal other facets of who they are as people away from each other, and that’s an important part of writing characterizations in an interconnected series like The Goode Brothers that not every author reaches for, understands, or achieves. As Sara has grown as a writer the more her writing skills in areas such as interpersonal relationships have sharpened, giving her books a sense of heart that’s often missing from kinky contemporary romance.
I loved that even though neither Sadie or Luke were necessarily in a Dom/sub or Dom/brat dynamic Sara still managed to find that balance that a lot of couples ride where the lifestyle itself may not be for them but there are aspects of the lifestyle that they can and do use in their lives because it makes sense for and to them. As always, she’s done her due diligence in research and wrote with great sensitivity about this topic. It always shows.
So yeah, it has pregnancy. But it also has professor/student and Sara’s impeccable writing. That’s easily worth the entire read and five stars.
I was provided a copy of this title by the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.
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