Her Two Dads

I have listened to dozens of gay male themed books on Audible. Many of them are supernatural fantasy or unrealistic romantic tales. This book had been in my “Wish List” for over a year. I was somewhat skeptical about listening to a book about gay men read by a female narrator. To my surprise, this was a fantastic book that explored so many issues that I could one day face. The narrator was superb and the way she read the story made me regret that I even considered her gender as a factor. This truly is a great story that I can realistically seeing happening to myself or one of my friends. Give it a chance.

Very good book if you take it for what it is.

The part where all three of them are on the daybed. That was very sweet.

I have never listened to this Narrator before and to be honest, I didn't even read the name to realize it was a girl. I wouldn't have bought it if I knew it was a female voice but actually, she did a great job so I am glad I didn't deprive myself from this great book based on that.

I think the title suits it well.

I liked her two dads, and even the intimate scenes which I thought were actually pretty sweet. The story is very simplistic. I felt a lot for the characters. At first, I was annoyed with all the baby buying details. But as the story progressed, I started to really like the characters. One critique I have though, the characters talked like a writer. They didn't really talk like realistic people sometimes. But after overlooking that, I could enjoy it none the less. I didn't really want an all drama all the time book and I didn't get that. It could have been a lot more complex but as an easy read that will leave you saying 'awwww', then this is the story for you. As for the intimacy, hahahaha, no complaints here. It was multicultural and I appreciate that. Well done. This picked me up. Thanks.

I loved this Audiobook. The romance was beautifully written and the topic of gay parenting was handled expertly.

The reader was wonderful as well. I would only comment that a woman is reading the story when most of the characters being voiced are male. It didn't really bother me, but it's something to consider.

The book doesn't have much in the way of characters, but at first, I found it kind of sweet--I know several two-dads families, and thought of them while reading it. I didn't even mind the "Brand-G is the best kind of carseat" parts--maybe it would be useful to prospective dads. But there really isn't much plot beyond the first third of the book, there's no characterization or level of prose to keep one's interest, and there are two or three pretty explicit sex scenes that seemed completely out of place--they didn't advance the plot or characters, just seemed thrown in to have sex in the book. The happy ending didn't read as real, either. Disappointing.

This book reads like a fictionalized version of one of those glossy pastel brochures called "Guide To The Two Dad Family" or in an edgier style "What it's like to be a co-Daddy". There really is no story, in the sense that a real story has characters with personalities, tastes, histories and interests and this is just a bare, simplistic account in which nothing is really going on except the very quotidian life of two dads and their baby. And there's a visit from a social services rep to get the intrusive, more conservative point of view from city/county bureaucracy Or maybe it's the neighbors that object to the two-dad lifestyle, I'm not sure, I didn't get that far.

It's unfortunate because this "story" has a lot of potential for a much more interesting take on the adventures of this family, and could have been a lot more fun to read. They could be out to dinner in an Ethiopian restaurant for example, or they could have family members to do things with, or they could have work situations - The explicit sex was completely unnecessary.