I could have gone without some of Zeb’s uber patronizing “you’re a kid” thoughts at Jesse, but that was addressed in the book itself so I wasn’t too mad about it.Īnother point of angst between them was Patrick, who I wouldn’t mind if he tripped and fell off a cliff to his death. It was a slow build sort of thing, though the attraction had always been there, and I really liked how the fake boyfriend element developed. The romance between them was so sweet, if a little bit angsty at times.

The fast pace also worked perfectly well with Jesse and Zeb’s POVs and inner monologues and the shift between their perspectives was really well done. But can he bring himself to break the hard-won lessons he’s learnt in life? And even if he can, how could Jesse be attracted to him anyway? He’s so much older than Jesse, not to mention being his boss.įrom the bestselling author of the Mixed Messages and Finding Home series comes a warm and funny romance about one man’s fight for control and another man’s determination to circumvent it.īest Man was pretty fun! The prologue was one of the best and funniest openings I’ve seen in romance and it really set the tone of the novel and of the relationship between Jesse and Zeb. Zeb doesn’t do impulsive, but as the time away progresses, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the merry and irreverent Jesse. Which is why it comes as a complete surprise to Zeb to find himself asking Jesse to pose as his boyfriend for a few days in the country at a wedding. He’s also charming and funny and a very unwanted distraction. Everything in his life lives in neat, alphabetized boxes. Life runs along strict lines and he never mixes business with pleasure. The product of a disorganised and chaotic childhood, Zeb likes order and control, and as the boss of his own employment agency he can give that to himself.

Best Man by Lily Morton