Reviewed by Annika
SERIES: Single Dads #1
AUTHOR: RJ Scott
NARRATOR: Sean Crisden
PUBLISHER: Love Lane Books
RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019
LENGTH: 4 hours, 35 minutes
BLURB:
Reeling from the painful rejection of a man he thought he loved, Asher is left holding the baby.
Ash wants a family, and is determined to continue with a surrogacy he’d begun with his ex. Bringing baby Mia home, he vows that he will be the best father he can be. Nothing in this world matters more to him than caring for his daughter, not even accidentally falling in lust with the doctor next door. Challenged by his growing attraction to Sean, and confronted by painful memories of his family, Ash has to learn that love is all that matters.
When ER doctor Sean moves in with his friends next door to sexy, single-father Ash, he falls so quickly it takes his breath away. The sex they have is hot, but Ash is adamant his heart is too full with love for his daughter to let anyone else in. Why is Sean the only one who sees how scared Ash is, and how can he prove to his new lover that he desperately wants the three of them to become a family?
REVIEW:
Single was a short and mostly uncomplicated love story between a single dad and the ER doctor next door.
In a way this story was a bit of a fail for me because I can’t say that I was all that invested in our main characters I just didn’t feel any connection between them or for them. It was very shallow and picture perfect. Nothing really happened with this book; we have Ash, the single dad to his infant daughter Mia. And being a new dad he is, of course, preoccupied with all things Mia – learning how to be a dad, learning to change a diaper, when to feed her. So his mind is solely focused on surviving one day – or hour to the next.
Sean, the ER doctor that just moved into the house next door kind of disappeared in all things Ash and Mia. I can’t for the life of me remember much about him other than him constantly helping Ash out with Mia in one way or another. He was a bit too perfect in some ways, but kind of also a wallpaper, disappearing into the background – which is never good for a main character to do.
Their romance felt off, it wasn’t there for me and came out of nowhere. Not to mention that their relationship felt very unbalanced with Sean doing all the work and Ash just being there – and not really being there for Sean or doing something in return for him.
I think that Sean Crisden’s narration elevated this story. I mean the story in itself was mostly mediocre, but his performance made it feel less so. He handled the different characters expertly and gave them distinct voices, and added feelings to them as well. We could feel how overwhelmed Ash was at times with Mia, the weight of the responsibility of an infant child. Crisden made you feel what he felt and made these past couple of hours pleasant ones.
While the main character and story failed to grip me, I did become very curious about Brady, one of the minor side characters, and I’m kind of hoping his story is up next in this series.
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