Reviews for The Diamond Dad

The average rating for The Diamond Dad based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-06 00:00:00 Lewis Wood Lucy Gordon�s stories always start out simplistic and then take interesting turns as she layers on the nuances. This story opens with the H/h estranged for two years. Heroine walked out on her builder hero - with their two kids - after 8 years of marriage. She is now engaged to manipulative veterinarian and wants a divorce. Hero is a workaholic because they were young, poor and pregnant when they married and hero wanted to give the heroine every material comfort. Heroine only wanted his time and attention. During the two years the heroine has been gone, the hero has had her watched (like a good alpha) and has seen his children on occasion. However, he is an unreliable father and the OM has been working the kids to get to the mother. Spoilers below. Hero shows up at the heroine�s small house and announces he�s going to move in. The daughter is thrilled and the son not so much. Hero starts going to their events, etc. Then he promises the daughter a dog. They go to the rescue shelter and the daughter immediately falls in love with a ten year-old St. Bernard called Barker. The rescue lady warns them that the dog is old and won�t live every long and will need a lot of space. The hero overrides the concerns since his daughter is so happy. They end up moving to the hero�s large house because the dog needs more room. Everyone is happier � except the OM and the hero�s personal assistant (wanna be OW). The hero is pushing for completion of a housing estate his company is building before the diamond anniversary of the company (and the H/h�s diamond anniversary). He wants heroine and kids to be part of the publicity push. Heroine isn�t happy about this and points out that ten years is tin � not diamonds. Hero bulldozes his way to a happy family until Barker has a heart attack. Their vet tells them to let the dog die. Heroine is distraught trying to contact the hero who is on a business trip. His PA won�t let her talk to him. Even when the daughter calls, the cold-hearted woman won�t put her call through. Heroine then hijacks the H�s private plane and flies up to the hotel. Hero can�t believe the PA didn�t tell him what was going on and fires her on the spot. The H/h fly back where Barker is holding on. Hero tries to strong arm a Famous Vet to do open heart surgery. Famous Vet is giving a paper and can�t be bothered. Hero then goes to the OM who is friends with Famous Vet to ask him to cash in a favor and get the guy there for surgery. OM is shagging his secretary, but he must have been done, since he�s in a good enough mood to call his Famous Vet friend. By that time Famous Vet has given his paper and is willing to fly over on the H�s private plane. Long story short � Barker recovers. H/h have sex again. Heroine realizes she has to cut it off with the OM. Hero regrets ruining the heroine�s life, but doesn�t tell her that. He finds a one year old St. Bernard named Peaches to marry Barker. That way if Barker dies, then they�ll have puppies. He gives a nice speech at the ten year anniversary and then diamonds to the heroine. Then he drops the heroine off at the house and gives her a note with the tin plates they used to eat off of when they were poor. The note explains he�s giving heroine her freedom. Heroine is horrified and cajoles the hero�s pilot (they had become good friends by then) to delay the flight. Heroine drives to the airport and declares her love for an HEA. The romance/second chance part of this was fine, although I don�t understand the heroine getting engaged to anyone while she is still married. That�s just weird and wrong. The heroine never slept with the OM (he had his secretary) and seemed she just wanted him around to fill a void with the kids. Hero truly was clueless about children and emotions and life, but he figured it out. He was a workaholic and just didn�t know how to stop once he was successful. The whole Barker storyline bothered me because the surgery was such a long shot and it seemed cruel to put that animal through all of that just so the daughter would think he daddy could do anything. I�m glad the author didn�t kill off an animal in middle of the story � but it didn�t seem realistic in the least. On the whole, this was a solid second chance story with the hero learning his lesson and the heroine finally understanding the man she married at 18.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-07-28 00:00:00 Frank Cruz Loved the sentimental ending. A story of H and h who were separated coming back together. The H really comes off as the worst dad in the history of parents but really redeems himself.