Amateur Amalgam

After the sadness that I was left with in completing Pelican Girls, I decided that I wanted something light (in length if not tone) and easy to get through. Lo and behold, the next book on my TBR was part of a trilogy of spicy books – Perfect!

The books in question are part of the A Baby for Them series by Chloe King, and each is about 300 pages following the same basic premise: Three guys wanna have a baby with our main character.

You may be asking yourself at this point ‘Is this a love triangle situation?’ and the answer is no, it’s a reverse harem situation.

A Baby for the Lumberjacks 🌟🌟🌟

A Baby for the Mountain Men 🌟🌟

A Baby for the Bratva 🌟

Spoilers Ahead!

Each book is basically copy paste in terms of plot, so reading one is reading them all, with only minor details changed.

Our main character is one who does not think herself beautiful (she is) and finds herself being ‘sold’ off to our 3 guys. The selling happens by way of a deal that she does not make, but she is responsible for – ala ‘my parents sold me to One Direction to bay the bills’ type deal – shout out to my fanfiction homies.

She is, of course, not very happy about this and attempts to sabotage the deal by making them hate her. The love interests have some sort of reason for needing a (biological) baby like yesterday, hence the urgency in the choice and the absolutely no take-backs attitude they have about the whole thing.

We always start the story in her POV, as she describes to us the predicament that she is in. The boys give her a day to acclimate to her new reality of having to live with them for the next 9 or so months and then (one of them is always a doctor) she gets a very invasive medical checkup.

I don’t have a medical kink, but apparently our girl (and guys) very much does (it’s the enema that does it for them, in case you wanted to know). This leads to them doing, the do – at first on a schedule, then for fun – and getting to know each other. Two of the guys (who call each other brothers even though they are only really related in the last book) are usually some version of nice to her, while the third always has some sort of trauma that makes him mean to her.

We get the POV of the guys somewhere near the middle and here is where we found out that, surprise! she’s actually their dream girl and they are all finding it difficult not to fall in love. Once everyone has caught feelings, something happens to create some sort of schism between them (usually a misunderstanding of some kind) then everything is very tense while they work through it.

Eventually the issue is cleared up, there are declarations of love, they get married and, would you look at that – she’s pregnant!

I liked the first book the most out of the three, it’s not the best mind you, and the sex scenes were ok, but since the story was just rinse and repeat, the next two sort of devolved into being more nonsensical. I could not suspend my disbelief as required, you know?

The second one was much less…. consensual in terms of the vibes. And the third was definitely not. The third book involves the (Russian) Mafia, so it’s more dark romance, but the abuse at the beginning is too close to being actually bad that the payoff at the end is not worth it for me.