Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.
I knew I was going to love Griff. When reading Mama’s Boy and Dixon was the star, I still kept being drawn to Griff. Don’t get me wrong – I love Dixon, he’s amazing, but I was just waiting for the day I could read Griff’s story. And let me tell you, IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT! Reading chapters from Griff’s POV was just icing on the cake of the delicious story that is this bet for Grandma Betty’s last present.
This story follows Griff & Kinsey, and these two are the ultimate examples of not judging a book by their cover. The brilliance these two have – if I could have a 10th of their brains I would be set for the rest of all of my graduate school work. While sometimes it feels unrealistic when you read about incredibly intelligent people, Avery does an amazing job making them not only believable, but loveable. I mean, who doesn’t love a brick wall of a man who adores Lego sets? Sometimes when books change the POV between the two main characters I want it to flip back to the other character because I prefer one over the other. Not this book! I couldn’t decide who I wanted to read more of, because both of them were such great characters! Avery, if you wanted to release more books about Griff and Kinsey I would gladly read them.
This is book 2 in the Last Man Standing series, and the final(?) book is about Nash. If book one and book two are anything to go by (as well as the little teaser we got at the end of this book), I am 1) excited for more Griff/Kinsey interactions when dealing with Nash, but 2) I cannot wait to see what Avery has in store for that Mansplainer! Get it? Because that is the name of the next book. I’ll see myself out.