Happy Wednesday Friends :)
I hope you're all enjoying this beautiful day that the Lord has blessed us with, and I thank you for taking time to join me today here on The Preppy Book Princess for another book review.
In the last few weeks, I've shared a couple of reviews from Kaci Lane's Schooled on Love series:
Today I'm excited to share my review of the next book in the series with you all.
Buggy List by Kaci Lane:
Source: Complimentary Copy Provided by the Author in Exchange for an Honest Review
Publisher: Kaci Lane Creations
Publication Date: May 1st, 2021
Genre: Adult Fiction/Contemporary/Clean Romance
Series: Schooled on Love
Synopsis:
With a marriage this strong, nothing could come between them . . . except maybe a baby.
Raven has big goals for herself, and having a baby falls far down on her to-do list. It plunged even further in her priorities after watching her sister give birth.
Unfortunately, her husband, Doug, is more than ready to start a family. They’re well-traveled with steady careers and a new home. The single thing he thinks is missing from their perfect life is an offspring.
When Doug shares his opinion, Raven panics and thinks of everything she wants to accomplish before she is tied down to a baby. Doug is quick to call her out for wasting time and laughs at some of her so-called life goals. That’s when Raven comes up with a plan.
Her Buggy List.
What better way to spend the summer break from teaching than to knock out all the things she’s always wanted to do? And maybe it will buy her some time to warm up to the idea of becoming a mom.
But showing her Buggy List more love than Doug causes problems . . .
Add to that Raven realizing her incompetence with babies—thanks to her newborn nephew. Plus, the stress of her best friend’s upcoming wedding.
And she’d give anything to just have her life go back to normal.
(synopsis from goodreads)
My Review:
Buggy List is a hysterically funny romantic comedy that showcases the problem that emerges when one spouse is ready for kids, but the other is having serious doubts. When this becomes the situation for Raven and Doug, she decides that she needs to complete a "buggy list" of things she needs to accomplish before she's ready to take that step with her hubby.
I have to say that I truly loved the plot of this one, and I applaud the author for choosing to write a romance that features a married couple who has been together for eight years, as this is something I don't see featured in romances too often. It definitely made for a unique story, and I loved the fact that even though this is definitely a comedic story overall, it still paved the way to show the true struggles that emerge for couples having trouble getting on the same page about the timeline for having kids.
I only ended up having a couple of issues overall, and thankfully both were pretty minor. I found this one to be a tad more crass than the previous two books had been, which I personally could have done without, but I know that probably wouldn't bother most readers. I also felt that Raven and Doug both behaved pretty juvenile for a large portion of the story, and I just wanted them to start working together to get through all their issues. That being said, the whole scenario speaks to the talent of Kaci Lane as an author, as even though they were both getting on my nerves, I was still rooting for them as I'd truly come to care about them both throughout the story, and wanted to see them be able to move past all their doubts and insecurities. The author definitely had me feeling sympathy for these two, and I appreciated that.
I definitely recommend this one, and this entire series for anyone looking for a fun and pretty clean romance to dive into.
Final Rating: 4/5.
Thanks so much to Kaci Lane for allowing me to read and review this!
I voluntarily read and reviewed a complimentary copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review. I was not required to give a positive review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of you day :)
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