Her Secret Baby Confession🩵

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The word I would use to describe this book is wholesome. The connection and chemistry between the two main characters was immaculate throughout this book even though there were many bumps in the road.

There was miscommunication throughout this book which I feel could have been avoided but it all ended up working out in the end and brought the main characters closer.

I thoroughly enjoyed the second chance aspect as well as the forced proximity the main characters had to go through, this introduced tension and entertainment as I couldn’t stop reading!

I absolutely loved the male main character in this book. I loved the way he didn’t hesitate to step up and provide for the female main character and their baby, it was really lovely to read the way he treated them both when she thought he wouldn’t be there for them at all.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone who loves a second chance romance!

Having read the description I really looked forward to reading this book but was disappointed as the characters lacked any sort of chemistry. The idea was great, and the peppering of case material good, but the characters did not ‘come alive’ as I read.

Her Secret Baby Confession by Juliette Hyland is a Mills & Boon Medical romance and the second novel in the Hope Hospital series.
Jackson Peters, a nurse anaesthetist and Dr Ryann Oliver, a trauma surgeon had baby Alya after a one night stand in Hawaii. Jackson never thought he would be a father and has lots of emotional baggage dating back to being abandoned as a very young child. but Ryann has spent the past year trying to firstly tell him sw was pregnant and then that she had had a baby girl. She finally tracks him down to Hope hospital Arizona where she obtains a job as surgeon so she can finally tell him. The story unfolds from there.

I enjoyed this book because for once the heroine is the surgeon and both main characters are 40ish with interesting backstories. As someone who lives in the UK I was interested to read this medical romance which very slightly touched on the issues that shape the US - more black women die in child birth for example which I don’t think has ever been addressed in any othe medical novel I have read.

I disliked the lack of tension and chemistry between the couple. There was a lack of a build up between the pair. was focused on building the perfect family life, whilst one of Ryann’s dominant storylines was that she was obsessively focused on her elimination diet so she could breast feed.

A bland book that lacks something to make the characters likeable. A shame as the premise is great.

An excellent mix of romance, friendship and work. The medical life is interesting, peppered with realistic cases that add to the plot rather than just being shoehorned in, this gives a lovely flavour. The couple are both balancing painful pasts that are impacting on their current lives. The medical problems, anxiety, panic attacks and parenthood are all sympathetically covered adding to the romance and moving the book forward.

Her secret baby confession by Juliette Hyland

Thank you NetGalley, the publisher and author for sending this digital book for review consideration. All opinions expressed are my own.

I read this book in a couple of hours, sitting in the sun with a cafe con (vegan) leche.

I liked:
that she was the surgeon and he was the nurse anaesthesiologist
that they were late thirties / early forties
that they both came with (some considerable) baggage
that elimination diets are sometimes needed by breastfeeding mothers until the right food group is eliminated (ok this one resonated with me).

He was a bit too unrealistically ’perfect’. He had childhood trauma around abandonment, was dumped by ex-fiancé and yet he remained calm and didn’t have a flipout but she did about her control / being a good mum.

Overall a good book to read with a HEA.

I received an ARC from Mills and Boon and NetGalley.

I’m afraid I found this a disappointing read. I mean, it’s okay, Fine for reading by the pool on holiday- but it lacked both tension and emotional depth for me. We seemed to spend more time on the nitty gritty of an exclusion diet for the baby than we did on the main characters or their relationship.
I never felt that the obstacles to them being together and staying together were real or substantial enough for me to believe in them. Neither of these characters were adolescents, they were both almost 40 and yet Ryann still thought like a twelve year old at times in terms of emotional growth. (I thought her name was weird by the way, where did that come from? )

I liked the premise and was looking forward to reading this book,
I am sorry, I know this author has written lots of books and is popular - but this just did not work for me. I am sure others will enjoy it.