The Lion's Surprise Baby

by Jade White

99c for a limited time only! Do not miss this great offer! This is a sex fueled paranormal romance featuring a curvy heroine and a hunky werelion. Please only read if these themes interest you. Only suitable for adults. It had been a long time since Tara Phillips had slept with a man but a passionate night full of adventurous sex was just what she needed. And it was just what she got when she met the smooth and handsome property developer Brenton Morgan whilst on vacation in California. It was supposed to be a holiday fling which was why Brenton never revealed his secret shape-shifting lion side to her. However, what was meant to be just one night would become much, much more 9 months later and life as they knew it would never be the same again... This is a sex fueled paranormal romance featuring a curvy heroine and a hunky werelion. Please only read if these themes interest you. Only suitable for adults.

Genres: Shapeshifters, Paranormal

368 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 29, 2018

About the author

Jade White is a bestselling author of Paranormal Romance. If you are new to her work you should check out "Mating Season" and "The Lion's Queen" firstly.

When Jade is not tapping away hard at her keyboard on her next big book then she can usually be found in the kitchen baking the best cookies in America for her family!

Reviews

[♡Naz♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

The spice was spicing👌🙈🤭

[Me-Me · Rating 2 out of 5]

Warning loads of ahead.

I found this story kind of annoying. First this authors take on sexy talk is kind of lame. Its a little obnoxious sometimes and seems a little redundant. These poorly scripted sex senses take up 2/3rd of the book and the author tried to squeeze in plot where they could. The story basically about a man and women who just thought it would be a great idea to have a week long sex fest with no protection after the heroin (Tara) follows the supernatural hero, Bryan to his home. They part ways and a month or so later Tara finder herself pregnant. She avoids all thought of telling Bryan that he is going to be a father out of some miss placed heroism that she is saving his future from the perils of fatherhood ( idk , i don't get it either) her best friend who tries to convince Tara to tell Bryan because (depending on situation) every parent should know present or otherwise. Tara's friend is a dramatization of stereotypical black women of the south, which is complete unnecessary but she was like one or the only people in this book that had any common scenes. Fast forwards and little baby Ryan is born and every one loves him. cutes baby alive, so strong, so smart, the most prefect baby etc,etc. Than suddenly Ryan turns in to a lion cub and Tara loses her proverbial shit (understandable, your seemly human baby sprouts a tail and fur). She FINALLY calls Bryan and than loses his shit. He jets her back to his home, they argue .Tara-You have a tail! Bryan- Why didn't you tell me I had a son, i missed everything! Tara - You gave my son a tail, you non-human you! She gets scared and turns out to be racist( speciest maybe idk) and them takes Ryan and runs even thought Bryan tells her that its not safe for her and the baby to live near human without pride especial when Ryan is unpredictable with his shift. Since Bryan isn't a abusive jerk he lets her leave with the promise that she will call him if they need him and he will be their to help. Basically she makes it as far as the airport before Ryan shifts and she has to call Bryan to come get them. He tells her how much he fell in love with her during her first week and never forgot about her. He wants to be with her and raise their baby together. Tara very abruptly and out of character confesses her love for him completely forgetting her speciest way and they ride off into the sunset. The romance in this book seems a little sudden in Bryans case and very forces in Tara's. This book is a bit of a mess but I cant be that horrible because I finished it.*shrug*

[Krys · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is giving me mixed feelings. The beginning was a little hot, though I think it would have been better if the book had started with the characters meeting so I would have had a little more context. I also can't decide if the author's aversion to using the proper terms for human genitalia is creative or annoying. Jumping over at least an hour (audiobook) of sex scenes and I arrived at the most ridiculous part of the book. Someone needs to tell the fem protag that when a person who is reproductively male has unprotected sex with a person who is reproductively female and the pair don't use back-up contraception procreation occurs. Idiot. When she started going into denial about her pregnancy I wanted to face palm so hard that the heel of my hand would go through my forehead. Then the fem protag had some seriously misguided ideas about sparing the baby daddy from the 'embarrassment' of having an illigitimate child (what about her?).

I didn't like that the fem protag spent so much time agonizing over what choice she would make in terms of her pregnancy (as a sexually active female I already know what my choice would be because there's always a chance, especially if you make reckless decisions like she does), but I did like that the author mentioned the options the fem protag had (no matter what her final choice was, the fem protag picked it).

I did not support the fem protag's decision to keep the baby from his father, and it definitely came back to bite her later.

My biggest problem with the fem protag so far is that after she found out what her baby daddy is, she tries to blame him for not telling her before they procreated. Hold up. If she had used contraception on the first place that would never have been a problem! She also choose to raise her child. For all she knew the male protag could have had a terrible genetic disease/disorder yet she did not consist that possibility when she made her choice, so the blame falls on her shoulders too.

The fem protag also dissolves into one of the worst literary mothers (who's not an outright villain) that I've ever encountered. She can't seem to reconcile the fact that the cub she encounters is. her. son. The human baby and cub are the same entity and in order to care for her son she needs to cooperate with the baby daddy who understands the more animalistic show off their son. Frankly, the fem protag's isms don't make any sense to me, but I would allow some freak out if she weren't so firgin blinded by her selfishness and misguided fear.

Update*
Finished it but still didn’t like the fem protag. I definitely cannot believe that after all the crap she gave the male protag she is suddenly confessing her love for him and ‘meant it’.

[Linda Levine · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story has a lot of heat. They meet when she is ending her year long travel after losing her husband. They spend a wild week together and then she goes home. She doesn't expect a pregnancy and for her child to shift into a lion.

I like that you get both of their points of view. He is used to being very sexually active and is honest with her about what he wants. He really offers her the fun and excitement she was missing. He also shows kindness later one when she shares their child with him.

There is a lot of sex between them. The only thing I did not like was the words used and phrases to describe their activity. I prefer authors who use more real terminology and don't try so hard to create their own analogies. It just makes it harder for me to stay with the scene and the characters.

I am voluntarily reviewing a copy I received.

[Samantha Mitchem · Rating 1 out of 5]

I never write reviews but this book made me a little mad. As soon as her baby boy changed she kind of distanced herself from her OWN baby and proceeded to call him a ‘thing’ or ‘it’. Um excuse me, no mother in her right mind would call her child either one of those things! She was extremely rude to the baby daddy and very not understanding of the whole shifter thing which was incredibly annoying. This book is unredeemable honestly so don’t waste your time.

[Christina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don't know and don't care

I didn't even make it half way thru the first chapter. Couldn't tell which pov i was reading at the time And lost what little interest i had considering the blurb. About out to kindle unlimited: trying new authors without having to buy their books.
And WHY are you censoring ? Either way fuck or don't, but f**k doesn't belong in an 18+ paranormal romance.

[Mary Martell · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn't even finish it.

I don't normally leave a review if I don't like a book but this one was just so bad... The sex scenes read like really bad porn from the 70s. And they had a LOT of sex. It seemed like that was all they did with no real storyline for the first several chapters.

[Melissa Davis · Rating 1 out of 5]

so unhappy

This is the first negative review I have ever written. And to be clear I read probably 20 books a month…
I don’t even know where to start, the worst sex scenes, followed by the most selfish (h) ever, I just couldn’t stop thinking at some point it would redeem itself. I was wrong.

[Abby G. Amos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Reads!

There were 2 books in this read and I Loved them both! I think everyone who reads both of these books will love them! Books I will recommend to others!

[Neysha Kurilenko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was a cute book. I would actually read more in the series if they have one.

[Mari Betancourt · Rating 1 out of 5]

Main character is such a dumb, so weak, selfish, egotistical woman.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a great book to read