Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have loved so many of Bybee's other books and even liked the first book in this series "Not Quite Dating", so was excited about purchasing the second, "Not Quite Mine". Unfortunately I purchased the book prior to reading the reviews. I started reading it, then wondered what I'd gotten myself into, so stopped and started reading reviews. I wasn't half way into the book, but already wasn't too happy with either the heroine or the hero and their attitudes and behavior. Yes, he may be hot and good looking but he's shallow and self-centered beyond that. My feeling was, if he was so in love with Katie as he claimed and broken up when she left him, he should have fought for her, but he didn't even try, This hero was all words and no follow thru, and in my opinion not a character I could believe in or truly invest in. I found myself actually disliking him and I thought of him as one of the bad guys. Truthfully, I didn't feel Dean's love for Katie and don't think he was as much in love with either women as he was in lust, or maybe he just liked sex and knowing it was readily available to him when he declared his love, so that's what made him say those 3 magic words; because how was it he was able to turn from Katie, right around, fall in love with Maggie, get engaged, and have a wedding to her in less than 2 months? Worse than that ** SPOILER ALERT ** get Maggie pregnant, after just going thru such an emotionally devastating miscarriage with the girl he just claimed to have loved with all his heart? I cannot ever respect or begin to like a man who would do that. He goes from hero status to "I can't stand you" status pretty fast in my book. The other problem I have with this guy - has he never heard of condoms? I mean, getting 2 girls he supposedly loves pregnant a few months apart - come on Dean, get with the program! Just one more piece of evidence stacked against him that shows his total lack of respect for women, and just how self-centered he is, as he obviously just assumes the woman will or should take care of birth control. . Furthermore, as soon as I read about Maggie, I figured out who the baby's mother was almost immediately and it made me so angry with Dean I couldn't finish the book and I absolutely couldn't stand the hero. Maybe its my age, (I'm 54) or the way I was raised, or my career (military officer and federal agent) but women can do better than that, think more of themselves. I was raised that way and we raised our 4 daughters the same way - to set higher moral standards for themselves and accept nothing less from those they date, and eventually marry, so there's no way Katie should take this guy back. She might be able to love the baby, as a baby is an innocent victim, but she better think long and hard and do some serious soul searching first because that baby will always be a constant reminder that Dean had said he loved her, then went and got engaged and created a baby with another woman right after Katie lost their baby, and at the same time Katie just learned she couldn't have children. He never really considered her emotional well being or the fact that maybe her rejection of him at that time might not have been a rational decision, but more one made due to the pain and hormones of losing a baby, aif if he'd been any kind of a man or hero at all, he would have stayed with her no matter what. He definitely wouldn't have run off and appeased his sexual appetite, declared love for another and gotten her pregnant as well. That's the biggest slap in Katie's face ever. I think Dean is total scum and I'd bet money he'd have an affair before the end of the first year of married life.