Dominic's Child by Catherine Spencer

Dominic's Child Reviews

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  boogenhagen

  Re Dominic's Child - Catherine Spencer makes her contribution to the
  From Here to Paternity series with a slightly pathetic h who CANNOT resist her Treacherous Body Syndrome and an H who is a regular donkey's hiney dropping.
  
  This one starts with our landscape/garden specialist h meeting the H as he shows up on her Caribbean Vacation Island in a very nasty mood. The H and h had met several months earlier when she was selected as the landscape designer for an upper class wealthy family who is rebuilding their estate and the H is the architect/residential developer rebuilding the family's manse.
  
  The H is also the fiance of the spoilt and capricious daughter of the house, but now the daughter is missing and presumed drowned. The H is angrily blaming the h because the spoilt daughter bought the h's friend's plane ticket when the h's BFF got chicken pox and couldn't go on holiday with the h.
  
  The h tries to be tactful, she understands that the H's grief is probably affecting him, but she also believes she is in love with the H. Why she believes that isn't made clear, as the H has repeatedly gone out of his way to make sure she knows that she is a low class grubby peasant to his shinning upper class status.
  
  (That the H has this attitude is totally a joke, his mother was a college student who had an affair with her married professor. She got preggers, the professor disavowed all knowledge and the woman proceeded to work menial jobs and get drunk until she died of liver failure.
  
  The H fiercely resents that he had to work his way up the ladder and he is mainly marrying the spoilt daughter because he wants the social status and connections. Needless to say, the h is reacting to her overwhelming TBS and she is probably mistaking her unbridled physical yearning for true love.)
  
  But now the H's scheme for upper class acceptance is all in ruins and it is all the h's fault. He has angrily berated and criticized her every chance he has gotten, because in spite of her middle class origins and non-couture clothing, he wants to pull out every gropey move he ever learned and do a whole lot more than roofie kiss her every time he sees her.
  
  After the H demands the h take him to the spot where the spoilt daughter's boat supposedly wrecked, making nasty blame filled comments about the h all the way, (and a day or two of more H haranguement about the h not controlling the spoilt woman who was running wild and partying it up entirely against the advice of the island authorities and the h,) the H and h wind up in bed.
  
  The h doesn't really expect much of the H, she realizes he was just using her body as a sub for the dead fiancee, but that doesn't change the fact that a stork will be paying a call in about 36 weeks or so.
  
  The H, who was all about making sure the h kept to her lowly peasant place when summoned to meet with the dead fiancee's parents, happens to find the pregnancy test and he immediately decides that he and the h will marry.
  
  The H threatens all sorts of custody battles he claims the h can't win because he is really rich and she only has a not very well insulated house, a new landscape business and a mortgage. The H is helped along when he and the h run into the h's mother over lunch and the H lets the engagement news out of the bag.
  
  Even the h's BFF is all about pimping the h out to the H, tho the h is overwhelmed, ill with preggerness and feeling steamrolled. The H then decides that he is going to tear down and rebuild her house and the h is just trying to hang on for the ride and walk around without passing out.
  
  Then the big kinda sorta surprise moment knocks on the door. It is the supposedly dead fiancee, who really only wandered off to find herself, with a guy from the island she picked up, and now claims to be preggers with the H's baby.
  
  The h is over being used as an incubator and having her life rearranged by the H whenever he feels like it, cause he claims his child will be HIS possession, so she packs herself up and goes to England. The H chases, he and the h fight and then the H goes back to Canada and files custody injunctions against the h and threatens to take her house.
  
  The h's family is all about pimping her out because she is pregnant and the h reluctantly goes back to Canada, only to collapse with a placenta previa rupture as soon as she arrives. The H finds her and gets her to the hospital, there is a big fuss as the H demands that they save the h and not the baby and soon the h has a little boy and everyone is okay.
  
  The H makes his true love declaration and explains that he was having doubts about the spoilt daughter even before the big disappearance fiasco. He also explains that the spoilt daughter's pregnancy wasn't his and that she terminated it.
  
  The h thinks everything will be great and she declares her love back. We get a baby as a wedding bouquet and a marriage ceremony epilogue for another HPlandia HEA.
  
  This one was really a 2.5 but I rounded up, cause at least the h tried to dump him and get over her Treacherous Body Syndrome. Otherwise this was an average day at the HP office with an who is just nasty because he can be.
  
  I wasn't feeling much empathy for him and I am still wondering how the h fell in love with him, but sometimes even the HP Voyager is required to drink the kool-aid to make it past the mediocre HEA and finish up an uninspiring HPlandia outing.
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  Fre06 Begum

  This is the 3rd book I read by this author and more than likely my last. I don't feel any true emotions from the male leads towards the female leads apart from lust. I also really hate it when it's the heroine that seems more into the guy from the start and the male lead seems not invested enough till the end. This book was slightly better than the two I read by this author but still not good enough for me. I prefer my besotted hero's who know heroine is their one and only!
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  iamGamz

  Dominic lost his fiancée in a boating accident in the Caribbean. He blames Sophie for her death.
  
  Sophie dislikes Dominic, but understands that he's in pain. While trying to console him they end up in bed together and she finds herself pregnant.
  
  This is a tumultuous story. Sophie is very insecure about her place in Dominic's life and at the first challenge, she ran. Dominic didn't help the situation by being a typical alpha male and trying to control everything.
  
  The book was better than I expected. Well worth the read.
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  Tia

  Short but very cute. I did enjoy reading it and I loved the heroine. Especially how moral and brave she was throughout the whole thing. She was also very independent or else she wouldn't of left the hero, expecting to raise her child alone. It all worked out quite well.
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  Corandra

  
  "Larga noche de amor"
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  Ellyn (Mrs. Darcy in my Dreams)

  This was great but the heroine was an idiot much of the time! I really didn't like her much.
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  More Books Than Time

  H kept being jerky even when he knew better and h kept loving and giving and running off. I’d have run off too if my fiancé’s ex showed up pg.
  
  Still I liked this a lot more than the plot or characters deserved, somehow the whole story worked for me.
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  Sara

  This book was better then I thought it would be when I started it. I like to get a description of the characters so that I can picture them I my head. The earlier in the book the better. This didn't happen, so for the first chapter I was despairing! But the author took pity on me and eventually gave a sloppy description. From then on it got better. The book was fast pace and I didn't skim parts of it, which I usually do.
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  RomLibrary

  Dominic's child was also Sophie's son...Sophie and Dominic shared one night of love...the result was Ryan. Sophie was determined to bring the baby up by herself. After all, Dominic had made it perfectly clear that Sophie was the person responsible for ruining his life. But, if that was the case, why did he pursue her and propose marriage to her? On the point of accepting, Sophie was devastated by the arrival of Dominic's fiancée. Who would Dominic choose now?
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  Debra

  This story was written in the 90's so lots about it seems out of place now a days. Its about Sophie and Dominic who share a night of passion after finds out his fiance has died. And the effects of that one night. Its about two people coming together who share common values also. Both worked hard to get where they are. Its about being open to each other and what happens when the "dead" fiance comes back. I have read other books by Catherine Spence and will look for more.
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  Yvonne Gom

  Set in 1990's without handphonea