It was okay.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this arc in exchange for an honest review!

“The Baby Plan” by Emma Bennet is a cute book with a heartwarming plot and a sweet romance. I did find myself rooting for Sophie and Samson characters as their story unfolded. 

However, I do think some character development could have strengthened the emotional impact. Giving the characters greater depth and complexity would've drawn the reader in deeper and made the story even more engaging.

Despite that, the plot itself is enjoyable and easy to follow. The book's length is perfect for a quick and simple read, making it ideal for curling up with when you want something light and heartwarming. 

Overall, with more character development and a deeper exploration into the world within the pages, this could have been a 5⭐️ read. But even as it is, it's a charming and sweet read that leaves you feeling good.

📚eARC review:- I was kindly given this ebook advance review by Joffe Books via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review📚

Natasha dies in a car accident, leaving her 8-month-old daughter in the care of her sister, Sophie, with whom she has distanced herself over time. Caught off guard, Sophie must reorganize her life and options to provide Alana with the family and home the baby needs. However, she did not expect the biological father of the girl to appear on the scene, who wants to be involved in raising his daughter. As things unfold between Sophie and Samson, and whether they manage to reach a common ground, remains to be seen.

It’s a short, light, and charming story, sometimes touching, that brings together two completely unknown people, connected by a baby. When Forced proximity and Under one roof collide, you can kind of get an idea of what’s coming 🙈.

I would have liked the story to be more developed, to have a bit of back story of the characters, and for events not to happen in such a rushed manner, the characters’ feelings to be deeper, they seemed somewhat superficially treated, and I think that’s why I couldn’t connect with Sophie or Samson. Also, the ending felt very abrupt to me, I would have preferred it to be more drawn out, so that things could “settle” properly.

Thank you, @netgalley and @joffebooks for the opportunity to read an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. ❤️

The Baby Plan - 2.5⭐️

The Baby Plan was straight into the plotline from the beginning, which I love from a book and immediately got me invested. I really enjoyed the storyline of the book, and is something I have read in the past and absolutely loved. Overall, I liked the pace of the book, despite the odd couple of chapters that felt slightly out of place, specifically the penultimate chapter. I did, however, feel that the characters did lack a bit of depth to them, and didn’t feel any real attachment to them like I usually like to, but this may have just been due to the book being fairly short.
Thank you to Joffe Books and NetGalley for allowing me to read an ARC of this book!

This was a book full of emotion. Starts off sad and ends in happiness with lots of funny things in the muddle. I loved this book straight away and was sorry to finish it. My thanks to netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review,.

As much as I wanted to love this, I found it was perfectly fine. It was cute and I enjoyed reading it, but I don't think I'd race to read it again.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC for my review.
I did not enjoy this title & struggled to complete it unfortunately.

The Baby Plan was such a cute read! Sophie's sister Natasha ends up passing away and Sophie now has to take care of her niece Alana. Samson (Alana's father) and Sophie are trying to work out their schedules and times to take care of Alana. This book was so cute and heartfelt as it pulled at my heartstrings. The relationship you start to see between Samson and Sophie is one that they start to connect and enjoy each other's company. You start to see their love for each other grow more and more. Will Samson and Sophie end up together? Does one take custody of Alana over the other? You will definitely want to find out in this cute read!

This book had such a great premise but the writing just never lived up to it.. A bit of backstory would have been good at the start. Sophie seems to have only been an accountant with no life or friends of her own. We are never told why Sophie's sister never told Samson she was pregnant. Samson is literally too perfect - he doesn't seem to have a single fault and everyone seems to find the entire situation very straightforward, nothing ever goes wrong.
I also didn't like how twice we suddenly switched to Samson's viewpoint - the change was quite jarring. Either write the book from both perspectives, or just one.
I think this book had to much potential but the style was just not there for me.

This is a really sweet romance - at first you have no idea where it's going, but it all pans out nicely. It's nothing groundbreaking, but a fairly well written story about coming together to create something quite beautiful. I liked the characters, and the Brighton setting!

Actually 3.25⭐️

Overall I enjoyed this book, but it felt a little rushed to me. I felt like the story was good, but could have been a little more developed.

This book is not on goodreads which is the platform I share my reviews on. Once this is available to be reviewed on goodreads I will read it and review it there.

The Baby Plan By Emma Bennet follows Sophie who has just found out that her sister has died in a car accident and now needs to look after her sister's baby, Alana, whom she has never met before when Samson, Alana's father, turns up. They agree to have Sophie and Alana move in with Samson and they slowly but surely settle into a routine together.

I enjoyed this story and had a good time reading it, it was short, sweet and full of emotions. I enjoyed reading from Sophie's perspective and understanding how she felt throughout the story as well as seeing her feelings towards Alana and Samson develop and how much they most meant to her by the end of the story.

During the story, I would say the only characters that we see frequently throughout are Sophie, Samson and Alana, but we do see some of the friendships that are developed and Samson's family members which I really liked. I really liked it as we saw both Sophie and Samson develop as characters throughout the story, both as we learned more about them and as they grew and changed due to the situation they were in. The characters felt built up in the book, with flaws and made mistakes, they were not perfect people which makes them feel accurate to real life and that they could be actual people. They realise when they've done something wrong and try to fix it as best they can. I liked both characters and occasionally got annoyed at them but overall they were both people that I wanted to read more about.

I also liked seeing the support that they had around them, including the friend Sophie found in Julia and the couple of scenes we got with Samson's family who were just so wonderfully supportive. You can also see why many of their relationships are no longer as strong as they were due to having a baby in their lives now and how this is both a positive and negative thing but nobody is at fault.

As I have previously mentioned I really enjoyed this story and had a fun time reading it. I read it in one day was hooked and wanted to know how it was going to end. I liked seeing the relationship build, how Sophie and Samson interacted and Alana as a character on her own. It is an engaging story that packs an emotional punch no matter how short it is, and being 12 chapters and under 200 pages does not take anything away from the story in any way whatsoever.

On the other hand, it did take me a while to get hooked and comfortable in Sophie's head, at the start I wasn't her biggest fan but that quickly changed as I have shown already in my review.

This felt like a fun 3 star read that I enjoyed and would probably recommend but it definitely wasn't a new favourite book and I don't know if I will read any more Emma Bennet, but enjoyed this story overall.

This was a quick book to read and i really wanted to like it but for me I just couldn't get into it, i didn't find Sophie to be very likeable, I did like Samson though and found him to be a lovely character. The story just fell flat for me unfortunately

This was a light fast paced read. I wish it was a little bit longer so there could be more character development but overall I enjoyed this one as a shorter read than others I had been reading previously.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of this ebook.

This book was such an easy read! It was heartwarming, emotional and romantic! I loved it all and am so grateful to be given an advanced copy of it by the publisher and author!! I thoroughly enjoyed it!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me!!

Unfortunately, this story just did not work with me. The plot had a lot of promise but the dialogue did not deliver.
Thank you for allowing me to read this ARC.

This was a very fast read. Unfortunately, this book just wasn’t my cup of tea. There wasn’t really any substance to the plot. I was also not a fan of the writing. When the characters conversed, it didnt really feel as though there was any emotions behind what they were saying. Overall, I would rate this a 3/5 stars.

I really just couldn’t get into this story. I liked the synopsis but actually reading the story didn’t capture my attention.

Thank you for the eARC for my honest review

Rating: ⭐⭐.5


I've spent a good hour figuring out how I wanted to rate this book! A quick and easy read. It had a good plot line but fell short with the character development I liked Sophie and Samson but didn't love them some of their interactions felt a bit robotic but there were some wholesome moments.


Thank you Joffe Books for the eARC copy of The baby plan via netgalley