be a joke.
now, a van would drive up and Ashton Kutcher would slide the door open,
laughing hysterically at my melodramatic performance on the front porch.
happened.
on the page jumbled into a toxic mess my brain refused to comprehend, much less
accept.
to arrange a paternity test (DNA).
remembered Chelsea Airy.
true—we’d gone out once, and we’d been friends for a while after. But I hadn’t
heard so much as a peep from her since I’d gotten married. I’d reached out a
handful of times, but she’d quit responding and fell off the face of the earth.
There hadn’t been a text, an email, a phone call, not even a Facebook message,
much less a stork in the last five years.
could forgive a lot, but she’d never wanted children—much less another woman’s.
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Unexpected Arrivals was an amazing non-traditional love triangle book. The myriad of connections that Stephie Walls created amongst these characters was spectacular.
The way Walls described James and Cora’s relationship from the moment they met through all of their ups and downs, their split and their reconciliation really made me root for them as a couple. And yet, I still appreciated James’ friendship with Chelsea during the years that he and Cora were apart.
I wasn’t sure how I was going to like the three POVs, but it worked so much better than I ever could have anticipated. I wasn’t sure how Cora was going to react when James learned that he’d fathered a child, but the way these two handled Legend’s sudden appearance in their life was true teamwork. And how that little boy allowed Cora to heal her own fractured past relationships left me in tears.
And I loved, loved, loved the wink to Jade and Aria from another recently-released book, The Roommate ‘dis’Agreement by Walls’ sometime-writing partner, Leddy Harper. I hope that means that we’ll see a romance between Legend and Aria some day!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Stephie Walls is a literary whore – she loves words in all forms and will read anything put in front of her. She has an affinity for British Literature and Romance novels and an overall love of writing. She currently has six novels out, four short stories, and two collections; all provocatively written to elicit your imagination and spice up your world.
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