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After winning the James Beard Award, chef Miller Montgomery is at a crossroads in her career. Her father, Monty who is coach of a Chicago MLB team suggests that she take some time away from her job and become nanny to pitcher Kai Rhodes's son, Max. Miller doesn't know anything about kids but still finds herself enjoying her time with Max and her growing attraction to Kai, but the more time she spends time with them, the more she begins to question the direction of her life and career. Kai is struggling with becoming a single father, while managing a professional baseball career, but as he becomes closer to Miller, things in his life start to become more clear.

Caught Up is well written with realistic dialogue and likable characters in a story that is easy to read and fast paced. There are many things about this book that make it enjoyable including the appearance of several characters from previous books in the Windy City series. The narrative does include angst and emotion, but the stakes when the characters make decisions are not life or death. Overall, Caught Up is a fun book with a light romance but does not incorporate anything earth-shattering. ( )

I forgot how long the books in this series are.

Enjoyable but long. ( )

Caught Up is the third installment in the "Windy City" series and this is Kai and Miller's book. This was a book that I had the most excitement for this year. The premise of this story had me so excited and I loved the first two books, they were some of the most perfect romances I have ever had the pleasure to read. And after seeing all the positive ratings, I had high expectations that this would be such a hit for me.

I am very sad to say that this is one of the worst books that I have read this year. And honestly, if it hadn't been Liz Tomforde writing this book, I would have DNF'd this book. I really tried to stay open minded with this one here but this one was very hard to enjoy. My struggle came with the heroine here. She was so challenging and I couldn't get to the point where I could remotely enjoy this one. I practically forced myself to read this book, hoping that it would improve and I would see some fraction of character growth but I never really saw it. I did not like Miller at all. She was difficult and quite frankly a bit of a harpy at times. She was continually pushing Kai away and almost putting him down emotionally because he wasn't as carefree as she thought he should be. She was always trying to change him. The personality of the heroine was so aggravating. She just had a very annoying personality and seemed to be mocking Kai over everything he seemed to say. Kai was an okay hero but the overpowering character of Miller overpowered any kind of personality we could have seen from Kai. The only redeeming qualities in this story were the moments when Max was involved.This story has completely lost any excitement I could have on future books from this author and I will be waiting on reviews for future books before picking them up.

Caught up had a beautiful premise but the execution wasn't done very well. Unfortunately this book didn't work for me and am a bit baffled by all the five star ratings if I am being honest. But hopefully the next book will be more like the first two books will strong character growth, likeable characters and a better execution. ( )