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Hometown Reunion #8
Fancy's Baby
Some lucky baby is about to be discovered by talent scout Kika Mancini, and hopeful parents in Tyler are all stirred up!
The only baby she wants, though, belongs to Nick Miller. And he's not even tempted by what Kika is offering his daughter.
What she's offering him, however, is another matter entirely.
249 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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About the author
Pamela Bauer
42 books7 followersPamela Muelhbauer was born and raised in Minnesota, one of six children. She and her husband Gerr, live in a small community just northwest of Minneapolis. They have two children, Amy and Aaron, and a bichon-poo that thinks he’s human. The marriage spend much of their recreational time in the lakes region of northern Minnesota. They enjoy roasting marshmallows over an open fire and listening to the call of the loons in the summer, and in the winter they trek through the woods on snowshoes and fish through a hole in the ice. Is it romantic? Ask a Minnesotan and you’ll likely get the answer, "You betcha!" says Pamela, who treasures those moments "up north."
Since selling her first romance in 1986, Pamela Bauer has gained fans around the world for her heartwarming stories about love and family relationships. She plans to continue to write stories about people falling in love and living happily ever after. She hopes that when you read one of her books you’ll smile and maybe even laugh out loud, but more important, when you’ve finished the story you’ll feel good — about families, about life, and about love. She often uses the Midwest as a setting for her books, because she believes there’s something special about the region that makes it the perfect setting for stories about love and family. It’s also the place where she fell in love with her real-life hero, her husband.
Since selling her first romance in 1986, Pamela Bauer has gained fans around the world for her heartwarming stories about love and family relationships. She plans to continue to write stories about people falling in love and living happily ever after. She hopes that when you read one of her books you’ll smile and maybe even laugh out loud, but more important, when you’ve finished the story you’ll feel good — about families, about life, and about love. She often uses the Midwest as a setting for her books, because she believes there’s something special about the region that makes it the perfect setting for stories about love and family. It’s also the place where she fell in love with her real-life hero, her husband.
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March 3, 2015
Kika Mancini is a talent scout looking for a baby to star Fancy's Furniture commericals and she has her eyes set one in particular, a cute little redheaded two-year-old in Tyler. There is just one big problem in her way, the girl's father, Nick Miller, isn't interested in the proposal for his daughter, but her is interested in Kika herself.
I found that this was the one in the series that I would not enjoy, there is always at least one in every long series I read and this was the one.
Kika was one of those characters that just seems to be in the right place at the right time a lot and I found her very annoying most of the time. She screams "I'm tough" and then crumbles into nothingness at other times. She's very wishy-washy and I didn't enjoy reading her.
Nick is similar. He wants nothing to do with Kika but can't keep away from her. He continuously goes against his own advice regarding her and it becomes like a broken record with him. He doesn't seem like a strong character either.
The romance between the seems very forced and Nick doesn't seem at all guilty that he is interested in another woman after his wife of 13 years died the 2 years prior. It just doesn't seem realistic to me. I know that he moved on and was ready to start again, but even I'm like this feels like he is just forcing himself to believe that he is in love Kika just so he can justify why he feels attracted to her. Kika is similar only hers has to do with her loving Nick's kids and she is justifying that by loving their father as well. The whole relationship feels very forced and not natural like the other books in this series felt.
Nick has 3 kids, Zachary and Patrick and the baby, Melody. Patrick and Zachary are the older brothers of Melody and are almost interchangeable. There are times when you aren't sure which one is the older brother and which one is the younger brother between them. Neither one of them is distinguishable as a character at all.
Melody is the best character in the whole book in my opinion because I feel like she is the only one with any character development. She seems to actually grow and learn new things. At the beginning of the book she doesn't talk at all, despite her age, and then she starts talking and doing other things she hadn't before. Her interactions with Nick and Kika were very realistic and I felt like they made sense.
Overall, it was an okay book that picked up closer to the end, but I'm not sure I would give it another read unless I read this series through again in the future.
I found that this was the one in the series that I would not enjoy, there is always at least one in every long series I read and this was the one.
Kika was one of those characters that just seems to be in the right place at the right time a lot and I found her very annoying most of the time. She screams "I'm tough" and then crumbles into nothingness at other times. She's very wishy-washy and I didn't enjoy reading her.
Nick is similar. He wants nothing to do with Kika but can't keep away from her. He continuously goes against his own advice regarding her and it becomes like a broken record with him. He doesn't seem like a strong character either.
The romance between the seems very forced and Nick doesn't seem at all guilty that he is interested in another woman after his wife of 13 years died the 2 years prior. It just doesn't seem realistic to me. I know that he moved on and was ready to start again, but even I'm like this feels like he is just forcing himself to believe that he is in love Kika just so he can justify why he feels attracted to her. Kika is similar only hers has to do with her loving Nick's kids and she is justifying that by loving their father as well. The whole relationship feels very forced and not natural like the other books in this series felt.
Nick has 3 kids, Zachary and Patrick and the baby, Melody. Patrick and Zachary are the older brothers of Melody and are almost interchangeable. There are times when you aren't sure which one is the older brother and which one is the younger brother between them. Neither one of them is distinguishable as a character at all.
Melody is the best character in the whole book in my opinion because I feel like she is the only one with any character development. She seems to actually grow and learn new things. At the beginning of the book she doesn't talk at all, despite her age, and then she starts talking and doing other things she hadn't before. Her interactions with Nick and Kika were very realistic and I felt like they made sense.
Overall, it was an okay book that picked up closer to the end, but I'm not sure I would give it another read unless I read this series through again in the future.
January 25, 2009
This was a quick little read, but I felt the main characters weren't very flushed out. Without revealing spoilers, both Nick & Kika have things in their past and I would have liked to have seen those explored a bit more. I just felt upon closing the book I really didn't know them any better than I did when I opened it.
Not disappointing exactly, just could have been better.
Not disappointing exactly, just could have been better.
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