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Avery Flynn is a true master at her craft. She had a way with plotting together a charmingly delightful rom-com that will have you chuckling, cheering and caring about her characters and their journey to love. Flynn's writing is easily accessible and swiftly draws the reader into the story, her pacing clips along as we watch the hero and heroine's love story unfold and her tone is casual and carefree that lends a wonderful allure to this lighthearted novel.
This is the second novel in the Last Man Standing series about the male Bennett cousins, a sill]y bet around 6 dates and not falling in love and their journeys to finding true happiness. This story is about Griff and Kinsey. Griff runs the research and development side of Bennett Cosmetics, he is a strong and silent type with a hidden heart of gold and he finds calm and peace of mind by building collectable lego sets. Kinsey is a young scientist, new to town and embarking on her dream job (which happens to be working in the lab of a competing cosmetics company). Kinsey is a country girl who is a force of nature and knows swiftly how to handle and settle many situations and this is what Griff sees the moment he first lays ears on her and he knows in his heart that she is the woman he is going to marry.
I found this novel to be such a wonderfully sweet story, about two people that have some past traumas around the different types of loss of their mothers and how two souls can find each other and learn how to balance the other out. Griff yearns for Kinsey and he grows his connection to her through watching her in different situations. Griff feels a calmness in her presence that he does not always feel with others and he feels comfortable opening up to Kinsey. Watching Kinsey and Griff fall in love was just really lovely. I loved watching Kinsey stand up for herself with Griff and show him that she is a strong and independent woman that can make her own decisions. I loved watching Griff learn and realize how to stand up for himself as well and fight for love and learn how to more clearly speak his mind. The steam level is nice and spicy and these two sure know how to express their desires and feelings in a physical way. I also found that throughout the story these two also learned how to best communicate with each other which comes full circle in the end.
I would highly recommend this novel if you love a good lighthearted love story, you love watching a hero who falls in love first pine away and work to win over the woman he loves, and love a strong heroine who learns to stand up for herself in a work field that tends to be dominated by men. I can not wait for the last installment in this series, Avery Flynn is currently hitting it out of the park!
***Thank you Entangled Publishing and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.***
OUT OCTOBER 25, 2021