When I finished this book, I really struggled with what rating to give it. In the beginning, the dialogue felt incredibly dated, and the set-up was laughable. ("I'm too SMART to have a baby with the BRILLIANT men I've dated because then our GENIUS BABY will be a FREAK, so I need to seduce a BIG DUMMY.") There were plenty of cringe-worthy lines (including a joke about a "cereal killer" and the hero being a "yeller") that almost made me abandon the book. However, Phillips actually did a nice job developing both her plot and her characters once Jane and Cal left Chicago for the South, so by the time I was done, I felt more affection than annoyance for them.