I always enjoy reading love stories of couples with different personalities. "His Pretend Baby" attempted to show how. We're all wired when we get down to basics, sometimes differently but it's perfect & unique all the same. Overall, the story is good, the premise is awesome. I wished there was less of that, I might have rated higher. Instead of letting them be them, they were their descriptors. *squints* Sometimes the main characters read like caricatures, Nyla always emphasizing her piercings and tatts, Go being like a robot. A lot happens afterward and I'm sort of sold on how it all went down, sort of not. I liked the interactions between Nyla and Go up until the honeymoon. *smh* The villain and their antics with added concentrated drama (past off page incest), the way the ending sort of baits the reader into thinking the worst possible happened, I wasn't a fan of. The have chemistry, the internal filters work differently but whoo boy.they were on even ground in their relationship. That first sex scene.just that illusion of breath play. The two start with a fake relationship, or that's what Nyla thinks as she agrees to Go's plans and marries. She meets his family and though they mean well with a teasing nickname (Berger for Asperger's), tries to show them in a few words that the nickname isn't nice.
Nyla, with a master's in psychology sees him, understands him and instead of trying to change him to fit her norms, she makes him comfortable in his skin. Go (I can't believe I'm referring to a human man as Go) is an alpha male all the way. But her ex's brother steps in with a crazy plan to marry and pretend it's his baby. Sadly, her ex is killed soon after sharing her positive pregnancy test. One drunken mistake lands Nyla pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby. She also works in a domestic abuse shelter, doesn't trust from years of rejection from people she tried to trust but loves her job to help others. Nyla, his heroine, is a former foster kid, punk alternative "freak" with tattoos and multiple piercings that she uses as an armor.
He thinks differently, loves plans (don't deviate from his plans), has sensory issues and is a success story. He founded a company that he had tailored to his needs. "Go" or Rodrigo (the nickname Go threw me off a lot) is a billionaire tech geek, a product of Mexican immigrants who thinks different. The premise is a little soap opera-y and towards the end it got to be too soap opera-y that I can't round up. This story is a solid 3.5 stars because I couldn't put it down.
This isn't the first book I've seen that featured a hero on the spectrum (yay!) and there should be more romances featuring main characters on the spectrum. The fact that the hero in "His Pretend Baby" is on the autism spectrum was a big draw for me.
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