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Review

3.5 stars

The third and final book in the Montgomery Brothers series, this is the story of youngest brother, Jack, in a best-friend’s-sister, fake-relationship romance that is fun and sweet with a gorgeous romance.

Jack is a playful, happy-go-lucky kind of guy with a reputation as being a bit of a player, but he’s an absolute softie, a golden retriever hero with a heart of gold. He keeps his life simple and doesn’t make connections beyond his family, and then Monroe comes back into his life.

Monroe is the younger sister of Jack’s best friend. She’s an ambitious journalist who has just started working at Montgomery media, and though she used to crush badly on Jack, she’s determined now to keep her distance from him. Until circumstances lead them into a mutually beneficial pretend relationship, which gets them up close and personal.

I love these tropes, and loved watching Jack and Monroe get all touch-feely, feeling all sorts of things they know they shouldn’t be, but unable to stop their growing attraction. In a fun twist on the trope, it’s not until they publicly break-up that they reach the point where they decide to give a relationship a go for real, but Jack’s never been in a relationship, Monroe is determined to protect herself from being hurt, and her brother is wildly overprotective and will be furious to learn that they’re together.

They have issues to deal with, for sure, but I loved watching these two get to know each other as adults while tentatively exploring their connection. It’s sweet, fun, emotional and seriously steamy. There’s so much feeling between them, and they’re both so new to all they are feeling and the strength of their attraction to each other. I loved watching them fall so hard and so completely for each other.

It’s a mostly angst-free read, and though there is a bit of drama thrown in towards the end of the book, it’s external to the relationship and doesn’t really impact the story in any way, and I enjoyed this romance, and watching these two get their HEA.

Being the family-oriented guy that he is, there’s a lot of time spent with Jack’s brothers and their girls, and I loved catching up with the couples from the previous books. There is an epilogue which gives us a glimpse into the future for all of the characters, and I finished this one with a big smile on my face.

Such a sweet read – 3.5 stars.

 

The Montgomery Brothers

 

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