haletostilinski's Reviews > To the Moon and Back

This was stinkin' adorable.

Gideon is 34 and a newly single father after his asshole ex up and left him 6 weeks ago. Six weeks have passed since then, and Gideon is now with a 3 month old newborn and is drowning doing it all on his own. He needs help.

So his two best friends recommend Toby as a nanny, as he's just come back from being a nanny in London. He liked the kids, but the parents turned out to be homophobic, so it didn't work out.

So he's back home in Australia, looking for a job. And boy does Gideon need all the help he can get.

Toby is an expert at childcare. He has a degree in early childhood education, even. With Gideon taking Toby on, he can also go back to work and make much needed money.

And Toby absolutely falls in love with Benson, Gideon's son. More than just as a nanny.

And as Gideon and Toby spend more and more time together - because as his nanny, Toby lives in Gideon's house - they start to fall in love with each other.

The romance was, as you expect from a Walker book, wonderfully done. Of course I felt the absolutely love between these two, and the love and adoration they had for cute baby Benson.

And Benson features prominently in this, so if babies/kids aren't your thing in romance books, then this isn't the book for you.

Benson is absolutely adorable, and Toby's adorable nicknames make it even more adorable - "chicky nuggy" just gets to me. So adorable.

Not much happens, plot wise, aside from these two living their day to day lives and falling in love - and maybe catching some food poisoning *ahem* - so it did make this a tad slow at times. A big reason for my start off. It wasn't 100% engaging all the time.

But Toby and Gideon were so sweet together that they made up for a lot of the slowness.

My only two other niggles that contributed to my one star off is, I wish when Gideon's asshole ex shows up in this near the end - just once in the whole book - that we'd gotten to see Gideon's conversation with him.

Maybe the author thought it wasn't important, but then why bring the asshole ex in the first place? Just to have Toby worry for a few pages? Nah, I wish we gotten more of him, because it just felt too quick and easy and glossed over, in my opinion.

Also I do wish the sex had been a little steamier. Which tends to happen with N.R. Walker books, but I'll never stop tooting this horn because no use skimping on the sex scenes. Which were good, they just weren't great. They could have been a lot steamier.

But, other than those niggles, and this being slow at times, I adored this.

It was just so wonderfully fluffy, sweet and adorable, and you'll fall in love with these two and little baby Benson as you read.

Of course they have a wonderful HEA too, and we got to see a cameo by Henry and Reed from "The Weight of it All" which was a nice surprise.

So, definitely two thumbs up from me. Not perfect, but still a very good, very solid installment by Ms. Walker. Can't wait for what's next from her!❤️