Title: Easier Said Than Done
A Lindell Series Standalone
Author: Marie James
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Baby Pact
Best Friends to Lovers/Broken Hero
Release Date: March 28, 2024
If you can’t ask your best friend to get you pregnant then who can you ask?
Adalynn Tate made a promise to her childhood friend.
They vowed that they’d do everything together, including marrying their junior high crush and having all their babies at the same time.
Her friend has succeeded. She got the guy, and the first bun is in the oven.
Now it’s Adalynn’s turn to make her own dreams a reality.
When Adalynn’s best guy friend comes over, he sees the pamphlets for her to have a baby on her own.
Cash does what any best friend would do – offers his free, platonic services instead of extra medical bills.
He doesn’t know Adalynn has had a crush on him since junior high, something she’s done her best to lock down deep as not to threaten their friendship.
Adalynn knows in this world you don’t get to have it all: the baby, the man, the fairytale.
But Cash has other plans for her.
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4 Stars
This is book two in the Lindell series and though it could be read as standalone, I feel that book one will give some added understanding of the relationship between the characters.
Adalynn is loved by everyone in town, I mean who doesn't love the generous owner of the local bakery. Growing up in this small town there isn't many she doesn't know and have a relationship with. Watching her bestie Madison finally getting all the things they have dreamed about for decades, she thinks maybe she needs to find some of that for herself. But with no partner in sight she decided to take on single parenthood.
Cash has always felt a little bit like an outsider after everything went down with his family but the town and his friends have done everything possible to hold him close and give him the family he didn't have. This is his main reason for never crossing that line with his best friend Adalynn. He would sooner have her in the friend zone then not have her at all and he has never felt good enough for her. But when Ads decides she wants to get pregnant, his possessive side kicks in and he offers to help, save her money and all that.
Will this cross over the line in their friendship make or break them? Will they finally share the feelings they have both been hiding so deeply? Could this be the push they need to finally jump in with both feet and enjoy the love they have for each other?
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*** Advanced copy provided in exchange for an honest review. ***
Marie James is a full-time author, mother of two boys, and wife of 18+ years. Dog Mom to four great danes: Maximus, Sassy, Kiki, and Hagrid.
She has spent almost my entire lifetime living in central Texas, with only short stays in South Carolina, Alabama, and Florida. She is currently residing in a sleepy little town in East Tennessee.
Writing is her passion, and she absolutely loves being able to sit down and put all of her thoughts and emotions into her stories.
She loves dogs, coffee, making handmade cards, and reading steamy romance novels!
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