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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Category: Contemporary August 28, Be With Me by Maya Banks. It left the door wide open for whoever Her torn jacket was back on, and she was Category: Paranormal August 26, Or maybe she just needed to take more. This was a huge step in this trust thing she was working so hard at. The rest Sort order.
Aug 31, Dee rated it really liked it Shelves: harlequin , arc-netgalley , author-maya-banks , harlequin-desire , arc-reviewed-netgalley. One night they decide to give into their desire for each other and have a one night stand.
Unfortunately one of the condoms failed which resulted in life long consequences. At first Cam was very upset and resistant and we learnt that he had been married before and both his wife and son had died and he was determined not to have any other long term relationships and certainly not have any further children. Once the pregnancy was confirmed Cam asked Pippa to move in with him and even offered marriage but Pippa wanted more than a cold marriage so refused.
I liked both Cam and Pippa but both were two very strong characters who wanted different things from life. I had a lot of sympathy for Cam and his past but at times I did get a bit cross over his actions towards Pippa for example the morning after the first night together and the at the pregnancy scan but predictably he came around at the end……a good finish to a fab series.
ARC provided by Harlequin via Netgalley View all 14 comments. Apr 06, willaful rated it liked it Shelves: arc-gift-or-netgalley. This is the last in Banks' "pregnancy and passion" series about four friends and business partners who each accidentally knock someone up.
You have to wonder what brand of condoms they're using. The last man standing is Cam, aka Mr. Cam has been eyeing Pippa a friend of his friend's wife for some time, and when he makes his move, he's brutally honest about the rules: "I don't do commitment. I need you to understand that if we go to bed together, this is a one-night stand.
I won't c This is the last in Banks' "pregnancy and passion" series about four friends and business partners who each accidentally knock someone up.
I won't call you in a few days. I won't call you, period. I'll expect you to leave in the morning. I'll provide a car for your transport back into the city. However, Pippa goes for it and they have a wild night. But when Cam discovers a broken condom and is somehow shocked. Hasn't he been paying attention to his friend's lives? Move in with me. If you won't marry me so my child has my name, then at least move in with me so you're both provided for. As vehement as he was that he could never give her what she wanted or needed from a relationship, he seemed just as determined to tie her to him.
I didn't like this quite as much as the others in the series. It's fairy-tale-ish in a way that doesn't entirely work for me: for example, Cam provides Pippa with everything she needs to start her own business, down to the decorated storefront. I find it hard to believe she wouldn't miss the fun of choosing things herself. I also thought that Pippa is rather callous about Cam's irrational but understandable feelings, attacking him instead of giving him time to work through them.
Still, Banks again does a great job of mixing the classic elements of category romance with more realistic characters and situations, so you have all the emotional punch without that little voice in your head that says "these people are idiots, nobody really acts this way!
View all 5 comments. Jan 21, Cheesecake rated it it was amazing Shelves: favourites , hero-twit , hero-stubborn-widower , genre-harlequin , hero-deliciously-remorseful , yeah-hero-grovels-just-fine , love-one-night-stand , sheesh-you-call-that-an-excuse , epilogue-is-great , sexy-ceo-wealthy-boss.
Cam and Pippa. Some reviewers say that Pippa crossed a line telling Cam what was what. But I thought she was great and Cam needed a kick in the pants to move on. Cam lost his family years ago. The story never says how and you really never got to know much about them. He doesn't want to ever feel like that again, yadda yadda yadda.
So even though he can't resist Pippa, he is determined to keep her at arms length. Basically have his cake and eat it too. Pippa is no doormat though. I think that even Cam and Pippa. I think that even though I liked Cam the least of the friends, Pippa's strength of character made me keep it at 5 stars. They have a ONS night of hot sex and she's knocked up. There's a lot of push and pull but, like I said, Pippa calls a spade a spade.
Eventually Cam pulls his head out of his arse. I do wish there had been a wee bit more grovelling, but it was pretty satisfying as it was! Jun 08, Jac K rated it liked it Shelves: widow , soapy-smut , scribd , drama-llama.
Re-read Nov. We finally learn why he is so emotionally closed off. Unfortunately, there's a faulty condom which results in a baby. I thought Cam was a pretty flat flip-flopper. IMO, it was always about her, and she was never nice about it… which made me feel like she was kicking a sad, abused puppy…. Instead, we get this I get that. No one could ever do that. I understand you lost people you loved. I get it.
You have a child, a son, who needs you. Am I supposed to be all sympathetic and pet your poor damaged heart just because something horrible happened to you in the past? Life sucks. They get up, dust themselves off and keep on living. Maybe you never got that memo. It's not like he walked around being a total bastard to everyone I was disappointed with the epilogue and wanted a little more since this was the last book.
I definitely like her Anetakis Tycoons series better. View 1 comment. Mar 20, Saly rated it liked it Shelves: harlequin-silhouette , silhouette-desire-slt-romance , category-romance , read-in This series has been pretty good and I have been waiting for Cam's story since we know the least about him and in the last book he helped screw Devon's head straight when it came to Ashley, sadly this book has to be my least favorite book in the series. The theme is failed birth-control.
Pippa is Ashley's friend and she is in the process of establishing her own store-front cafe and catering business when she gives in to her attraction with Cam and spends one passion filled night with him, agreein This series has been pretty good and I have been waiting for Cam's story since we know the least about him and in the last book he helped screw Devon's head straight when it came to Ashley, sadly this book has to be my least favorite book in the series.
Pippa is Ashley's friend and she is in the process of establishing her own store-front cafe and catering business when she gives in to her attraction with Cam and spends one passion filled night with him, agreeing that it is a one time thing but fate has different plans and their fears come true and she is pregnant. Despite it not being an ideal time, she wants the baby.
Meanwhile Cam who wished with all his heart she won't fall pregnant is terrified, he has already lost a wife and son once sadly I didn't feel we were given much information about this, how he met his wife, how did they die etc and doesn't want to go through the pain again and is over-protective, wanting Pippa to move in with him and even suggesting marriage but she refuses and they manage to build a friendship. However when they go for an ultrasound and find out they are having a son, Cam freaks which angers Pippa and she questions him and out comes his past.
Now, I got Pippa's point of view of letting the past go but I had real problems with her seeming disregard for his pain, she didn't even ask him questions and instead just expected him to get over it. I respected her in the way she wanted her son to have a different identity but I had a hard time being sympathetic to her when she raked Cam over coals. He had been there for her and she put him through the wringer and when she does confess her love for him and he doesn't respond in kind she walks out and doesn't give him the chance to apologize.
I do enjoy a good grovel but I do wish the Pippa too had apologized for her behaviour. All in all I loved seeing all four friends and their families together in the end but romance wise this story has to be the weakest for me though I would recommend giving this series a try. Finally, we have reached the final book of this quartet.
To Cameron Hollingsworth's story, the reclusive, brooding, cynical one. Pippa Laingley was always caught in awkward situations by Cameron Hollingsworth. Another one presented itself while she is catering for her best friend Ashley and his best friend Devon's housewarming party. As if partnering with him at their wedding wasn't enough she's attracted to him, and what she doesn't know is that Cam is also interested, very much, so much that h Finally, we have reached the final book of this quartet.
As if partnering with him at their wedding wasn't enough she's attracted to him, and what she doesn't know is that Cam is also interested, very much, so much that he has erotic fantasies. This is the same Pippa from the previous book on whom Ashley went all mopey and who taught her cooking, at least tried. Cam and Pippa both agree on a one night stand. And what an interesting one it is, oh my And pregnant she turns out to be, in a few weeks. To which, Cam suggests a mutually beneficial partnership, which Pippa's pride doesn't agree to, whereas he's adamant on keeping them safe.
The camaraderie between Pippa and Ashley is fun. As is the one between Devon and Cameron, infact all four friends, it is just superb. I loved it in the previous book and I loved it here again. It makes me wonder, after Ashley and Pippa, do Sylvia, Carly, and Tabitha have their own stories too? There's a time jump of a few months, necessary for the storyline, I think. Cam continues to blow hot and cold, he just can't make up his mind whether he wants to be with Pippa or not. He couldn't move on from his painful past, a past where he had loved and lost both his wife, Elise and his son, Colton.
He has nightmares due to it, this time imagining Pippa in place of his dead wife. It's so intense, the way he feels, and he doesn't share his fears with her. It seems he should have got himself a psychologist! That much pain and remembrance couldn't have been good And then comes Devon and Ashley's daughter into the world, Katelynn.
This book had some cute friendship between Devon and Pippa. There is some funny grovelling, and much needed too, especially after all the nasty things he's said to her. It has a beautiful ending with the birth of their baby boy Maverick. After which his cave in Greenwich is transformed into a proper house. Gloria Copeland Ashley's mother , oh how I loved her in the previous book, and in this one too. She is the mother everyone dreams of. The main thing I liked about this book was that till everything was sorted out, Pippa maintains her independence, staying in her own apartment, and not falling all over Cam.
You go, girl! Wow - just wow. I had a feeling Cam's story was going to be pretty incredible and I was right. When this one started out with him lusting after Pippa I had a feeling it was going to be intense. When he started out their night with the statement that it would be one night only, no contact after, etc, I could see he was setting himself up for the fall. Pippa started out saying he should get over himself, that's all she wanted Wow - just wow.
Pippa started out saying he should get over himself, that's all she wanted too, but she knew she could easily fall in love with him. When she ended up pregnant, it terrified Cam - he'd already lost a wife and child and couldn't face it again. Cam spent the book fighting his feelings. One day he'd be kind and friendly and the next he'd backed off and was cold and forbidding. Pippa knew pretty quickly that she'd fallen in love with Cam.
She couldn't understand why he acted the way he did. Once she found out, she understood, but made it clear that he had a decision to make. There were several places that brought me to tears, but the final confrontation and follow-on had the tears flowing so bad I could hardly read. This was absolutely the best of Maya Banks' books I have read so far.
Jan 18, Dalia rated it really liked it. The story of Cameron and Pippa is a very intense and emotional read. Cameron has known the worst possible pain. He had lost his wife and son. He swore never to put himself through this pain again. Now he is Mr. I- dont-do-commitment, I-dont- do- love sort of guy. But when a one- night stand with gorgeous Pippa results in a pregnancy, Cam is living the nightmare all over again. Pippa refuses his offer of marriage. She wants a husband who loves her and she won't settle for less than that.
It's not easy to fall in love with a man who swore he had no love to give. Pippa is a strong heroine with take-no-prisoners attitude to life. She has courage, she knows her own worth and isn't afraid to confront Cam with her love to know, once and for all, where she and her son stand.
Cam needs to look past his horrific past to realize he is being given a second chance to happiness. Will he grape it with both hands or will he let it slip from his fingers? Nov 06, Chryssa rated it really liked it Shelves: read , vivliomania , audiobooks , favourite-heroine , second-chances , pregnancy-in-plot , hero-or-heroine-with-serious-issues , listened , misunderstandings-aplenty , most-favourite-authors. By far the best in this series!
A heroine that knows what she wants and is not afraid to claim her wants and, if need be, cut the father of her unborn child out of her life! And yes A man's grovelling has always been a woman's favourite sin All in all, it was as fun reading this as the mood required!
S: How can you not love me daddy? Nov 15, Booklover rated it liked it Shelves: dead-wife-exwife-exfiance-ow , divorce-separated-reunion-2nd-chanc , emotional-tear-jerker , love , secrets-past-tragedy-abusive-childh , office-romance , pregnancy-surrogacy , sibblings-best-friends , parents , part-of-a-series.
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