Call Her Mine by Melissa Foster

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Title: Call Her Mine
Author: Melissa Foster
Series: Harmony Pointe #1
Published by: Montlake Romance
Release Date: August 13, 2019
Format: eARC
Pages: 260
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Source: NetGalley
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Netgalley and Edelweiss Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 New Release Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Summer Hunt
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My rating:

Blurb:

Two besties and a baby make for an instafamily and a surprising romance in a delightful series by Melissa Foster, the New York Times bestselling author of the Sugar Lake novels.

Ben Dalton has always been honest, except where his heart is concerned. He’s been in love with his best friend—saucy, smart-mouthed Aurelia Stark—forever. But Ben’s a planner, and timing has never been on his side. When he finally decides to make his move, Aurelia beats him to the punch with a move of her own—to a different town.

Aurelia loves her new life in the charming town of Harmony Pointe. She has a great apartment and her very own bookstore, and best of all, the sinfully hot, commitment-phobic friend she’s crushed on for years is no longer just around the corner. Maybe she’ll finally be able to leave her unrequited love behind and move on.

But when a baby is left on Ben’s front porch—a baby that is presumably his—Aurelia is there for him. Neither one knows the first thing about babies, but how hard can it be? Ben and Aurelia are catapulted into a world of love, laughter, and tracking down the baby mama, and it might even add up to a very happily ever after… just not one either of them expects.

My Review:

I received a free copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.

3.5 stars — This book was a mix of ups and downs for me!  I was initially skeptical of the hero, but then quickly got sucked in by our MCs and their chemistry and all that good stuff.  But somewhere along the way I started to get a bit bored, and my attention wandered.

Ben starts the book not looking very good.  He came across really cocky, and a bit of a dick.  Which is weird, b/c that’s not at ALL who he is for most of the rest of the book…which makes me happy, b/c he was a sweetheart eventually.  But I can’t mash the two of them together, it’s like two different characters.  I eventually found him to be kinda sassy and funny, but with a wonderfully thoughtful romantic side to him.  But can I be weird for a sec?  He got a bit too good to be true by the end…like, almost boring.  Like, oh look, he did another thing spectacularly swoonily right…it didn’t feel authentic.

Aurelia was…not very memorable.  I definitely didn’t dislike her, I thought she was sassy and fun!  But she didn’t really stand out in the grand scheme of things.  She was just…a cookie cutter heroine in some ways.

That’s actually a pretty good way of describing a lot of the book — it felt a bit cookie cutter.  Which isn’t always a bad thing.  Yesterday I was loving that predictability, but today when I finished the book I was just over it.  I’m not sure what I was looking for that this book was missing, but there was definitely something.

As with everything else, I both LOVED the chemistry between Ben & Aurelia, but I also got bored of it after awhile.  Their initial kiss scene, and subsequent steamy scenes were smoking!  But then it became repetitive.  *sigh*  Maybe it’s me.

The story with Bea was pretty adorable, if without as much conflict as I’d expected.  They fell in love and became attached like *that*.  But the author did try to show the stress/harsh reality of a newborn as well.

The secondary characters brought quite a bit of fun, Ben’s family in particular was hilarious.  And I adored Aurelia’s Grandma Flossie, she had so many great pieces of wisdom to pass along.

So yeah.  A solid romance, but in the grand scheme of things not one I’m going to remember.

COYER Summer Hunt: Read a book that takes place exclusively in a small town — 1 point.