Stupid Covid, Some Complaining, and a Book Review

My Last Chance by Weston Parker

My youngest has covid. Pffft. It isn’t a horrible case – the vaccine seems to be mitigating the illness. But we do follow the CDC recommendations and have her isolated. Hopefully, she won’t pass it on to everyone.

Since she is isolated, I have become her fetcher-toter. I have also had to pick up her slack and help my other daughter with the foster puppies. On top of all that, the CNA who assists with my elderly father-in-law had to be out today because her child’s school closed at half a day.

I haven’t had any time to quilt, but have managed to finish a book by Weston Parker called “My Last Chance”. I literally fell asleep.l while reading. So I grabbed some coffee and took a short nap (kinda keeping one eye open because my father-in-law kept trying to escape the house).

I woke up and started reading again and it still was just blah. It is a secret baby romance. I always pick these up with high hopes that the heroine didn’t intentionally hide the kid from the hero. But this one did, and again, I find myself being irrationally angry at a fictional character. 😡 I generally like this author but do wish that he would have just left this book unwritten.

The hero and the heroine were both stupid and did incredibly stupid things. Then we have the secondary story about the hero’s brother that I think was supposed to show growth in the hero by the way he dealt with his brother, but I found it added nothing and was just tedious to read.

Secret baby romances can only work if the heroine has dang good reason for keeping the kid from the hero – they had to go into witness protection, they were made to believe he was dead, they were threatened with death or serious bodily harm, it was a no names exchanged ONS. The heroine assuming the hero doesn’t want to be a father or that he doesn’t know how is patronizing and degrading to men.