The Rock Star’s Baby Bargain by Lili Valente

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Two days after my boyfriend dumps me, my business goes belly up, and the sperm bank declines my credit card, a gorgeous rock star offers to whisk me away for two weeks of hot, steamy, all-expenses paid…therapy. 

I should say no.
I’m not looking for a fling. 

I want a man who’ll be a father to the baby I’m desperate to conceive. Or, at the very least, a guy willing to knock me up before we go our separate ways. 

Zack isn’t that guy. He’s my best friend’s oldest pal, and in my social circle for the long haul. I could never ask him a favor like this. 

That would be crazy.
The problem? 

Turns out, I’m crazy. 
And so is Zack…

The Rock Star’s Baby Bargain

Nice romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏
Character development: 😊😘😟
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: DualNarration

The Hero: Zach – he has been in a top rock band for years and just decided to quit the band and try for a solo career. He grew up with his grandparents, whom he still lives with when he isn’t on tour. His mother was an addict, and he never knew his father. He is in a local bar in his hometown when he hears a voice he knows, it is the dodgy boyfriend of a woman he has known for a while through a mutual friend. A woman he has always been very attracted to. Zach hears the guy saying some demeaning things about her and he doesn’t like it.

The heroine: Colette – her ex-boyfriend Fernando just dumped her because they were at different places in their lives. She was desperate to have a baby, he wanted to get married, but she didn’t think getting married was necessary to have a baby. She had been telling him for a while that she was going to have a baby with or without him and he wasn’t listening, so after going to the sperm bank to get inseminated, he blew up and dumped her.

The Story: Zach goes to see Colette after leaving the bar. He tells himself he just wants to see if she is ok, not because she is finally single and so is he. Colette isn’t doing well, she is crying and eating ice cream. She is depressed from not only being dumped, but also because her trip to the sperm bank ended without positive results and she lost her job. So now she has no boyfriend, and no way to pay for more sperm or in vitro. Though Zach cheers her up when he invites her to his vacation retreat where he plans on writing songs for his solo album.

The attraction between these two flares up right away and they end up making the decision to have a baby together. I kind of like this premise, since it isn’t about a surprise pregnancy but a planned one even though they are technically not dating each other, though their chemistry is undeniable. I liked both Zack and Colette as characters and the romance was terrific.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Lili Valente (also the author), and Sebastian York. Sebastian is one of my favorites, he has a deep, gravelly voice and is great at voice acting (rather than just reading or narrating). I was surprised at how much I like Lili Valente’s voice. It is youthful and feminine and very pleasing, and she also is really good at voice acting.

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