One Moment Please
by Amy Daws
That awkward moment when an ER doctor has to inform you that you’re pregnant…with his baby.
Three things Lynsey Jones knows about the hot doctor: he’s grouchy, an arrogant jerk, and strangely obsessed with pie.
Three things Dr. Dick knows: he doesn’t talk about his past, he doesn’t do relationships, and the crazy girl in the hospital cafeteria who ate a fistful of French silk pie…is annoyingly irresistible.
After a chance meetup at a bar and a heated cab ride together, things come to a head and now instead of hating each other, they’re horizontal in a bed.
Three months later, the weird cafeteria stalker who crept out of Dr. Dick’s house like a thief in the night, winds up as his patient in the ER after her Tinder date from hell.
Dr. Dick is prepared to keep it cool and professional. That is until her bloodwork reveals that she’s pregnant.
What really throws him for a loop…is that the surprise baby…is his.
Spice Level: 3.5/6 | Story Score: 7/10 | Rating: 4.25/5 |
I chose this book because I needed an “O” and I love Amy Daws. I hadn’t read one of her books for my A-Z challenge and I knew she’d give me something I could enjoy. This is book 3 in the Wait With Me series and while I have read book 1, it was a long time ago, but I haven’t read book 2. This book was plenty enjoyable without anything else.
Amazon has the title as One Moment Please: A Surprise Pregnancy Standalone (Wait With Me Book 3) so I don’t feel like there were any surprises. On my trope list either because I put it under ‘Unexpected Pregnancy’. You could also use it for a grumpy/sunshine, medical hero, or even a trauma trope though, because poor Josh had plenty of trauma to grow from.
I enjoyed this book exactly as much as I thought I would. Amy Daws has a way of making me like things that I normally wouldn’t. Pregnancy in books is not something I look for - usually I avoid them at all costs. The story was well-written and had that air of mystery trauma that I knew was going to hurt. Nothing about it was instant and that always makes the connection sweeter to me.
The characters grew so much that even though I started out not liking either of them a whole lot, by then end, I was absolutely rooting for them. Josh just starts as an ass, lol. I mean, a hot ass that I’d absolutely let spank me as well, but geez. I hated when he talked. When we started getting to know him though, he won me over, despite his stern and dry demeanor. He was caring, gentle, thoughtful, and (more often than not) patient. He was a bit controlling, but it made sense in this story.
Poor Lynsey couldn’t even keep her brain together long enough to not say mortifying things the first several chapters. It made me laugh and cringe at the same time. I appreciated the fact that she tried to pace herself with things and that she tried to let Josh set his own pace as well. Of course we all get to a point that we have to put our own needs first, but she tried very hard, and I thought she was a very sympathetic and likable character as she grew. I loved how hopeful and willing she was to experience her pregnancy and try various things - like yoga, lol. I was not that kind of pregnant lady, so props to her.
I honestly think my biggest issue in this book was her friend and family. I remember liking Kate in the first book, but in this one, she frustrated the shit out of me. Her family was pretty much my nightmare - so religious that they wore their righteousness for everyone to bow to. Bleck. I don’t remember Dean from the first book a lot, but I somehow feel like that if I did, he’d probably have improved for this one though.
I don’t think this is a book that I’ll read again, but I have to give it credit because I’m pretty sure I existed in a state of anticipation-arousal for nearly the whole thing and I had so much trouble stopping until it was over. I devoured this in a matter of a couple hours.
-SPOILERS-
I was torn about putting this in the spoilers because it’s also kind of a trigger warning, but there is a lot of grief over a child dying in this story. It’s not on page, it’s the trauma that Josh has to work through, but it was still difficult for me. Children are a trigger of mine. I think it was done really well, but if you were someone trying to read to distract yourself from a sick child, this one could hurt. A lot.
I adored that Lynsey read her baby dirty novels, lol. It cracked me up. And that darn shower scene with him walking in on her using her vibrator had me all flustered even as short as it was. This is - by chance- the third spanking book I’ve read in a row and honestly it may have been my favorite even though it was brief.
Freaking bravo to Josh for handling the parent-dinner-bombardment as stoically as he did because I feel like in most books, the guy would’ve really showed his ass there. I also appreciated the shit out of Lynsey not going behind his back to read the letter or doing anything else to entirely break his trust. I was also glad for the fact that he knew she was pregnant from the moment she did and there wasn’t a giant fight over ‘whose baby is this’ like is so often the case in real life surprise pregnancies. This book was good for my anxiety in all these aspects.
Obviously I was grateful for a lot of the things done the way they were in this book and I’d recommend it to anyone not suffering through child-illness circumstances.
Book 3 in the Wait With Me series | 307 Pages | Trope Challenge: Unexpected Pregnancy |
“I’m all bite, sweetheart,” he says, and suddenly, a smack lands right on my thong-covered ass. The sound startles me, and my jaw drops.
“Did you…did you just spank me?” ...My voice is raw and breathy when I finally pull away, and croak, “Do it again.”
- Lynsey, One Moment Please by Amy Daws
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