Baumgartners Boxed Set 2

By: Selena Kitt

Narrated by: Holly Hackett

Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

What do you get in the Baumgartners Box Set 2?

• The Baumgartners Plus One
• Letters to the Baumgartners
• Baumgarter Generations: Janie

The Baumgartners Plus One When Danielle Stuart meets the Baumgartners, her life doesn't need to get any more complicated. Studying Italian on scholarship at the University of Michigan, Dani is haunted by a horrible tragedy that her husband, Mason, simply can't come to terms with. But when she meets Carrie Baumgartner and then her handsome husband, Doc, she finds her attraction to the couple irresistible, no matter how complicated things might get. While the two women bond over being childless and yet surrounded by children in the university's married housing complex, it's Doc Baumgartner who really brings them together with a game-changing idea that serves to reshape all of their lives.

Letters to the Baumgartners Danielle Stuart is spending a year abroad studying in Venice, the most romantic place on earth. But while Danielle loves the language, she's not interested in love itself. Not until she meets a handsome Italian gondolier named Nico. He's got his eye on her, and Danielle simply can't resist his flirtatious charms. But when her ex-husband, Mason, shows up on her doorstep looking to reconcile, she finds herself with a dizzying dilemma. Finding herself torn between the two men, desperate Dani writes to her former lovers in hopes they might help her clarify her muddled emotions. Will the Baumgartners and their polyamorous insight give her the courage she needs to choose?

Baumgartner Generations: Janie Janie Baumgartner has big dreams of trying to make it as a writer in New York, and between that and her job as a nanny, working for family friends Ronnie and TJ, her life is incredibly full. That's when she meets him. In spite of the compromising situation, Josh, who just happens to be an agent, sees great potential in her - and not just as an author. Josh finds Janie utterly irresistible, and he's the kind of man who aggressively pursues what he wants. But - plot twist - Janie is already in a complicated polyamorous relationship with her benefactors. What happens when she finally reveals this to Josh? Will she lose him? Will she be forced to make an impossible choice? Or will she find that the capacity for the human heart to love is indeed endless?

©2015 Selena Kitt (P)2015 Selena Kitt

Missed the mark, needed to kill off Mason

This set wasn’t as good as the first boxed set, but it wasn’t bad. I think the thing that soured me the most for the entire thing is Mason and her giving him more chances. He physically beat her!! Why on earth would we be going back to him? Find another man or stick with the saucy second one.

Love doesn’t need to evolve to monogamy for perfection

I totally enjoyed the openness and honesty for which this story began, but I was disappointed to see the turn to both a lesbian and heterosexual monogamous union establish for there to be everlasting commitment. Why was it necessary for Janie to not share with Josh of her poly union with Ronnie and TJ. Why was it necessary for Janie not to to share with her mother, maybe not in detail but Janie knew of her mother and fathers open relationship with Ronnie. Josh knew of Janie and Catherine relationship, but had no interest that maybe Janie would love continuing to have women in her life especially Ronnie. The turn which Selena decided to take I can see for ease and simplicity, but it would have been even more enjoyable if honesty and plural magic was maintained.

Main characters dumber than rocks

The 1st set wasn't perfect, but at least it wasn't garbage. These will have you wishing you were listening to Henry's dumb story again.