Review of Oh, Baby! by Jill Blake, plus a Day in the Life of the Author

Welcome to the book tour for Oh, Baby! by Jill Blake. To kick off today's stop, we're starting with a peek into a day in the author's busy life. Then I have an excerpt and a few thoughts of my own to share with you. Please leave Jill any questions or comments you might have. And then follow the tour for more fun and chances to enter the giveaway!

A day in the life of ... Jill Blake

A day in the life of a physician/mom of 3

6 am – wake up, shower, get ready for work.

6:30 – prep breakfast + lunches

7 – out the door. Catch up on news on NPR. Drop oldest kid at school.

7:30 – Open the office. Check email, review lab results that came in overnight, respond to medication refill requests, look through the day’s schedule of patients, pull up and review results/consult notes for some of the more complex patients.

7:30-9 - Once or twice a week, attend committee meetings at the hospital or CME morning report.

8 (or 9 on days when I have morning meetings) – start seeing patients. In between patients and during “lunch” hour, continue working on my inbox (return patient calls, answer emails, review incoming test results, refill medications, field questions from colleagues and staff).

5:30-7 pm – finish charting and other paperwork for the day. Once or twice a week, rush home to drive/pick up kid(s). They are involved in a slew of extracurricular activities (taekwondo, basketball, orchestra rehearsal, etc.). Use time between drop-off and pickup to run errands (food shopping, pharmacy, gas up the car, etc.)

5-9 pm - Twice per month, work Urgent Care shift, then take call for our 24-physician group. Call ends at 8 a.m. the following day.

6-8:30 pm -Twice a month, attend administrative meetings (operations, marketing, etc.)

7-9:30 pm (on days when not attending meetings or working Urgent Care) – dinner with family, help kids with homework. Adjudicate arguments between kids. Collect and plug in electronic devices from kids (“Aw, Mom, I’m in the middle of a game here! Five more minutes, ok? Please??”)

9:30-?? – pay bills, read, catch up with DH

When do I fit in exercise, writing, and quality time with family? Mostly on weekends, and during my one “administrative” day per week, which is when I also catch up on charting and clearing out my EPIC inbox, as well as doing the more time- and labor-intensive non-clinical tasks for my medical group (for example, I’m in charge of maintaining our website and FB pages).

I am lucky to have a very supportive husband and a terrific nanny, who manage the household and much of the day-to-day care and chauffeuring of the kids.

Oh, Baby!

Lena Shapiro. Successful surgeon. Dutiful daughter. She sacrificed her personal life to build her career and take care of her mother and sister. Now thirty-nine and single, she watches her peers pairing off and having kids, and wonders if she missed out on her own chance at happiness.

Assigned to mentor a visiting colleague, Lena finds herself falling for the man instead. But Adam Sterling is all wrong for her: he’s too young, too arrogant, and too willing to push personal and professional boundaries. And he’s leaving L.A. for a job on the opposite coast.

With the date of Adam’s departure looming ever nearer, will Lena retreat to the safety of her familiar solitary life, or will she take a chance on an uncertain future with the man who might make her dreams come true?

(Please note: This is a steamy contemporary romance that contains mature themes and explicit content, meant for adults 18 and over. It is a stand-alone novel, with no cliff-hangers, and a guaranteed HEA.)

Read an excerpt:

Copyright © 2019 by Jill Blake

Adam knocked on her office door. “Can I interest you in a lunch break?”

Lena glanced up from the computer. “I usually work through lunch.”

“How about I grab us something from the cafeteria and bring it here?”

“I’m not hungry.” She turned back to the screen. “Thanks.”

Adam studied her. So much for making progress. Good thing he wasn’t easily discouraged. A quick scan of the room, and bingo!—there it was. Inspiration.

“Is that the latest JACM?” He moved closer and reached for the journal topping a pile of paperwork on the corner of her credenza. “You don’t mind, do you? I’ll just sit and read quietly.”

“Help yourself,” she said drily. “But don’t you have an office or something you can use?”

“Sure.” He shed his white coat and draped it over one of the visitor’s chairs, then sauntered across the room, where he toed off his shoes and proceeded to make himself comfortable. Or as comfortable as he could get, considering the love seat fell far short of his six foot three inches, and Lena was still staring at him, her expression now more irritated than bemused. “But it’s the size of a supply closet, and there are three other fellows sharing the space. So…”

“Do you always get this chummy with your attendings?”

Ooh, now she was pulling rank. He hid a grin. “I wouldn’t call breathing the same air on opposite sides of the room chummy.”

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**My thoughts**

Lena is a character I can relate to in some ways. We're about the same age and she can hear her biological clock pretty much screaming at her. She tends to stay quite busy at work, focusing on it more than other important things in life. She's also the one who ends up doing the most to take care of her family, namely her mother. Love is the last thing on her mind.

Then the beautiful young doctor comes into her life and turns it upside-down. I don't blame her for keeping a barrier around her heart. She has her plans already set in stone, and getting involved could mess those up. Plus she just doesn't want to get hurt.

But at the same time, she has a strong physical attraction to Adam and finds him hard to resist. And her life really does get turned inside-out. And to share much about those changes could give away too much of the later story.

The book is a quick and easy read. It had enough steam to keep it interesting, without overdoing it. I liked the added bits of medical drama. I did find myself wondering what I would do if I were in her shoes. I did enjoy passing the time with it. I wanted the story to be fleshed out a bit more. I wanted to get to know Adam a bit more. The story would skip ahead some periods of time, which did help to avoid monotony. And events at the end of the story could have made for a great sequel!

I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

About Jill Blake

A native of Philadelphia, Jill Blake now lives in southern California with her husband and three children. During the day, she works as a physician in a busy medical practice. At night, once the charts are all done and the kids are asleep, Jill writes steamy romances with smart heroines, sexy heroes, and guaranteed happy endings.

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