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Gray Quinn's Baby
Magenta knows having a new employer might be tricky. But she isn't expecting the old-fashioned ruthlessness of Gray Quinn! However, plucky Magenta is up for the challenge, and tries to beat the distractingly gorgeous Quinn at his own game….
Quinn is no New Man—he wants temptingly innocent Magenta in his bedroom, not the boardroom. But he can make her no promises. He'll give her the night of her life, but he might not be there when she wakes up…. And he definitely doesn't want her taking maternity leave!
Quinn is no New Man—he wants temptingly innocent Magenta in his bedroom, not the boardroom. But he can make her no promises. He'll give her the night of her life, but he might not be there when she wakes up…. And he definitely doesn't want her taking maternity leave!
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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Susan Stephens
742 books133 followersUSA TODAY best-selling author Susan Stephens' books have captivated readers worldwide with over 11 million copies sold. Her work crosses cultures and continents, having been translated into 26 languages and reaching readers in 109 countries. This year marks a milestone as Susan's 100th book is slated for publication.
NEW SERIES!
ACOSTAS RAW Ranchers, rodeo and passion
1. BEAU
2. COLT
3. BLAKE
4. CHRISTMAS WITH ANGEL
BLOOD AND THUNDER
1. ALEXEI
2. DANTE
3. DIEGO
4. CESAR
5. CONNOR .
- BOX SET books. 1-4
6. ELIJAH Coming soon
NEW SERIES!
ACOSTAS RAW Ranchers, rodeo and passion
1. BEAU
2. COLT
3. BLAKE
4. CHRISTMAS WITH ANGEL
BLOOD AND THUNDER
1. ALEXEI
2. DANTE
3. DIEGO
4. CESAR
5. CONNOR .
- BOX SET books. 1-4
6. ELIJAH Coming soon
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March 1, 2012
This is one of those rare times I wish that Goodreads allowed half ratings. I barely want to give this book a half star, let alone 1. It starts out well enough with the heroine, Magenta Steele working for her father’s advertising company that now has a new owner who she has never met. Magenta’s father wants her out of the office, so that the new owner, our hero, Gray Quinn can acclimate himself with the company and employees. On her way home, she encounters a sexy biker who she feels attracted to, but is shy and awkward around him.
Magenta decides to go back to work at night and work on their current project based on the 1960 theme and she decides to dress herself in the same time period. Magenta falls asleep at her desk only to wake up in the 1960s where she is not an accounting executive, but the secretary to her boss, Gray Quinn who looks like the biker she met. She realizes it’s a dream and tries to go along with it until she wakes up. As in the 60s, the women are not taken seriously and Magenta works hard to have the women’s opinion taken seriously. All the while, Gray and Magenta embark on an affair, which comes to the obvious conclusion that she is pregnant with Quinn’s baby only to wake up in the present in her office. It turns out that Gray Quinn and the biker are indeed the same person and they start dating and pretty much ends the same as the dream with Magenta pregnant and getting married.
There are so many things wrong with this book, I really don’t know how I finished. My biggest problem with the book was that more than 90% of the book was in Magenta’s dream, while only very little of the book was set in reality. The dream-like state is something I haven’t seen in a harlequin presents, but instead of being a novel idea it really crashed and burned. I think it would have been better if only the small amount of the book was about a dream like maybe a chapter, because I kept waiting for when she will wake up and the “real” romance with the hero could begin. Secondly, I did not like hints that were kept giving in the book about they did the same thing in real life as in the dream was more than just coincidence, but something more. I wasn’t fond of the way the 60s were portrayed either and so many other small things that I surprised myself by finishing. I know harlequins are usually a little over the top and only some of them are really good, but most of them are pretty decent. But this by far felt like an attempt to incorporate many issues/ideas into 180 some pages that fell far short of the goal. I guess there is something to be said of the tried and true plots found in harlequin presents.
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April 25, 2012This weird mix of "Life on Mars" and "Mad Men" -- with a few pathetic shout-outs to Fifty Shades of Grey thrown in -- could have been very interesting; in fact, I'd love to see a creative writer tackle a time-travel romance in which a modern heroine goes back to the world of a 1970's Harlequin Presents and has to deal with one of those crazy-making, sexist heroes. But there was no real inspiration here, and none of the fascinating tensions those television shows create by immersing us into such a similar yet bizarrely different time; it was just painfully derivative and boring as hell.
January 11, 2012
The heroine Magenta is busy preparing for a meeting with the new owner of the advertising agency she works for. After working all night she falls asleep on her desk, but when she wakes up everything around her is different. It seems that she has woken up in the 60's and her job is no longer there, instead she is the office secretary and the new boss Gray, the hero, is every but as domineering as expected. However, they both feel as connection and spend a lot of time together, eventually leading to pregnancy. Magenta is blissfully happy, but worries that the happiness she has found will soon be all over when/if she wakes up.
I almost didn't want to write this review, I hate being negative, and this is not going to be pretty. Simply put, I couldn't stand this book. First things first, the blurb does not give any indication of the actual events in this book, I would not have chosen it if so, and this is annoyingly misleading. Secondly, the most of what happens in this book is in a dream. It would have been fine if the dream had been only a small part of the book, but it wasn't, I found it very unappealing. Thirdly, the whole sixties setting would have been fun had it not felt like a complete rip-off of Mad Men. Ignoring all of the that, I still didn't like the book. I could go on for while, but I am going to stop now.
For me, this is an awful book. Of course YMMV.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
I almost didn't want to write this review, I hate being negative, and this is not going to be pretty. Simply put, I couldn't stand this book. First things first, the blurb does not give any indication of the actual events in this book, I would not have chosen it if so, and this is annoyingly misleading. Secondly, the most of what happens in this book is in a dream. It would have been fine if the dream had been only a small part of the book, but it wasn't, I found it very unappealing. Thirdly, the whole sixties setting would have been fun had it not felt like a complete rip-off of Mad Men. Ignoring all of the that, I still didn't like the book. I could go on for while, but I am going to stop now.
For me, this is an awful book. Of course YMMV.
Originally posted at http://everyday-is-the-same.blogspot....
March 18, 2014
I don't even know why I purchased this book in the first place. Maybe it's because the blurb is so promising but eventually I couldn't even finished. Confusing and didn't make any sense. I'm so sorry. :/
July 9, 2015
Hero was not my liking kinda a jerk thought the story Of the dream was good
December 13, 2023
Before I write a review, I usually check other reviews to give a sanity check to my own thoughts. Maybe I mis-understood something, or missed a great point. (The only professional certification I hold is for software testing, and a sanity test is type of software test - a quick informal process to check main functions. The notion of sanity testing is applicable beyond software). Usually my opinions are consistent with many others, but in this case I don't get the hate for this book. I suspect a misleading blurb and annoying title are largely to blame, and that's on the publisher.
Putting baby in the title suggests pregnancy or an infant play a key role in the story, but that's not the case here. Instead, it's a spoiler for something near the end. And the blurb completely misses a critical aspect of the story - this is a time travel romance.
The majority of the story is Magenta, a personal and professional fan of the 1960s, believing she is in a dream where she is living in the 1960s. In her dream, she is happily engaging in the sort of boss-secretary power-imbalanced romance that was supposedly tolerated then and supposedly frowned upon now. There are some nods to feminism and her perspective as a modern woman, but for the most part she is indulging herself in her dream - and why not? One could, of course, argue that it's demeaning to present a woman enjoying her fantasy of living in a sexist society and enjoying a power-imbalanced relationship, but the character has chosen to do this.
When she wakes up (or returns to the present), there is some hinting that it was not a dream, or perhaps it was a shared dream, but the potential of this (and her life in the 1960s) is not fully explored. Similarly, the implications of being in a relationship and pregnant in a dream (or in time travel) and not in real life (or the present) is something that could be explored further, but there's only so much you can do in 250 large print pages of a monthly romance imprint.
I didn't care much for the story itself, or the characters, but I appreciated the novelty of the plot and little notes like the heroine's discovery of less wonderful aspects of the 1960s. The boss-employee relationship trope continues to be popular despites all its inherent problems, and this book takes an unusual approach to both exploiting and avoiding those problems.
Putting baby in the title suggests pregnancy or an infant play a key role in the story, but that's not the case here. Instead, it's a spoiler for something near the end. And the blurb completely misses a critical aspect of the story - this is a time travel romance.
The majority of the story is Magenta, a personal and professional fan of the 1960s, believing she is in a dream where she is living in the 1960s. In her dream, she is happily engaging in the sort of boss-secretary power-imbalanced romance that was supposedly tolerated then and supposedly frowned upon now. There are some nods to feminism and her perspective as a modern woman, but for the most part she is indulging herself in her dream - and why not? One could, of course, argue that it's demeaning to present a woman enjoying her fantasy of living in a sexist society and enjoying a power-imbalanced relationship, but the character has chosen to do this.
When she wakes up (or returns to the present), there is some hinting that it was not a dream, or perhaps it was a shared dream, but the potential of this (and her life in the 1960s) is not fully explored. Similarly, the implications of being in a relationship and pregnant in a dream (or in time travel) and not in real life (or the present) is something that could be explored further, but there's only so much you can do in 250 large print pages of a monthly romance imprint.
I didn't care much for the story itself, or the characters, but I appreciated the novelty of the plot and little notes like the heroine's discovery of less wonderful aspects of the 1960s. The boss-employee relationship trope continues to be popular despites all its inherent problems, and this book takes an unusual approach to both exploiting and avoiding those problems.
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June 10, 2025DNF - 45 pages in. I thought I was going crazy and spoiled myself by looking at a few reviews.
Might come back later when I’m not irritated.
Might come back later when I’m not irritated.
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December 24, 2014Miniseries: The Untamed
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December 24, 2014Miniseries: The Untamed
March 28, 2011
I had such a hard time to finishing this book and nearly did stop reading a couple of times.
November 3, 2011
worst book ever, I had to stop reading for while before I stopped completely.
April 3, 2012
It had promise, but boy was this book disjointed. Not a good read at all.
February 17, 2015
I couldn't believe how awful this book was. I forced myself to finish it hoping that it would improve....nope! The sucky just got suckier. Avoid this one at all costs.
March 17, 2013
wow, this is really bad.
July 20, 2014
I don't like it. Large part of the book is aout her dream.
December 22, 2014
La verdad... totalmente decepcionada... o no estoy de genio o no hubo ese algo... :(
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September 29, 2015*zero*
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