Review Pair: Last On The List & Honeymoon Phase By Amy Daws

As the weather starts to cool down, there is nothing we’d rather be doing than curling up with a cute and cozy read. Bonus points if they’re adult romances like Last on the List and Honeymoon Phase by Amy Daws that bring the heat!

We’ve started our foray into Amy Daws’ universe of adult romance with these two new releases. And it’s safe to say we’re hooked! Here is what we love about Last on the List (out now!) and Honeymoon Phase (on sale November 18th).

Book Overview: Last On The List

Content warnings: mentions of fatphobia, hospitalization, and divorce

Summary: CEO millionaire Max Fletcher is a single dad in desperate need of a nanny.

Cozy Barlow is in the middle of her self-appointed “gap year” and doing everything she can to detach from her past.

But when her sister begs her to interview for the nanny position of a high-maintenance client, she doesn’t have a good enough reason to say no.

And when Max locks eyes on the twentysomething in tie-dye who pitches the idea of daydreaming all summer, he prepares to give this bad nanny the boot.

One problem: Max’s little girl thinks this “plus-size in body and spirit” nanny might be her new bestie, so she hires her on the spot.

Now Max is stuck with a woman who hates everything he represents—corporate greed, money, status, power.

But one stormy night when the power goes out, he discovers Cozy doesn’t hate him. In fact, he’s the leading role in her fantasies.

Fantasies he would very much like to make a reality.

Our Review

We can’t believe this is one of the first books we’ve read with the single dad x nanny trope! Last on the List is the newest story in Amy Daws’ Wait with Me series. It follows a romance between CEO Max Fletcher and his live-in nanny Cassandra “Cozy” Barlow.

We loved a lot of things about this spicy rom-com, namely the palpable tension and lovable supporting cast (especially Max’s daughter Everly). But one of our all-time favorites is how Cozy ultimately confronts her traumatic past and Max’s part in purging those negative memories as well. Because what else are millionaires CEOs good for than making things happen with money?

We won’t spill too much, but their happy ending was well deserved and even alluded to the beginning of the Mountain Men Matchmaker series, which centers around Max’s younger brothers: Wyatt, Calder, and Luke. Speaking of Luke, we’ll get more into his love story in Honeymoon Phase below!

Last on the List by Amy Daws comes out September 30th, and you can order a copy of it here!

Book Overview: Honeymoon Phase

Content warning: themes of grief and trauma, deaths of loved ones, parental abandonment

Summary: When Addison “Roe” Monroe tells me she’s going on a husband hunt at the local lumberjack competition so she can inherit her father’s lumberyard, desperate times call for desperate measures.

She’s sworn off romance. Says she’s been through enough tragedy. So I offer myself as an alternative, ’cause that’s what best friends are for.

But my stubborn friend, who would rather drive a forklift than get her nails done, refuses to accept my help, and now I find myself training to become a lumberjack.

I refuse to let Roe hitch her wagon to some hulking ax wielder who might be a serial killer. She means too much to me.

And I swear there are moments where she looks at me like I mean something more to her, too.

On the surface, I’m offering a marriage of convenience to protect her. But the truth is…I’m hopelessly in love with my best friend.

So if I have to marry her and move her up to Fletcher Mountain just to see if she could love me back, so be it.

Because my only regret would be losing her forever, and that’s a fact.

Our Review

Hopefully you won’t have to wait too long in between reading Last on the List and the first two books in the Mountain Men Matchmaker series before getting into Honeymoon Phase by Amy Daws! Moving on to the youngest Fletcher brother, Luke’s romance features a marriage of convenience and the best friends-to-lovers trope (which we’re huge suckers for, by the way).

Luke offers to marry his best friend Addison “Roe” Monroe in order for her to inherit her family’s lumber yard. The only slight problem is that he’s been in love with and pining after her for ages, and she has no clue. Seeing the lengths that Luke goes to first get Roe to agree to marry him, then to avoid scaring her off by how much he (truly) loves and cares for her was maddening in the best way possible.

Similar to Last on the List, Honeymoon Phase also balances the rom-com with heavier topics of grief and trauma. We loved seeing Luke and Addison work through their troubling past and not hiding huge parts of themselves from each other anymore. So, so swoonworthy.

Honeymoon Phase by Amy Daws comes out November 11th, and you can preorder a copy of it here! (P. S. You can find out who the next main character in the series will be at the end of this book!)

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