Dolan Masters loathes many things: root canals, splinters in his fingers, and people putting toilet paper on the roll wrong—loose end over the top, please. But the one thing he hates more than anything else is Everett freaking Henson.
Everett Henson spends more time with animals than people, his best friend Eli being the exception. The downside of that friendship means crossing paths with Dolan Masters; the man who rubs Everett wrong in every way possible.
But a baby changes everything.
With both men believing they deserve the honor of being the godfather to their best friends’ baby, the only way to settle things is through a competition. Will there be bloodshed, or will these two realize the truth staring them in the face?
May the best godfather win.
Comment: One more book I can't remember why was on the TBR list but likely had something to do with a recommendation somewhere...
Everett and Dolan don't see eye to eye in much, only that they love their best friends, respectively Eli and Tasha, who are married. Now, it seems the couple is going to welcome their first baby and they're ecstatic. They are also debating on whom to choose to be the godfather, and they have decided to set up some funny challenges, but will Dolan and Everett be able to keep off the antagonism to succeed? What will happen when they discover they have more in common than just their friends? Especially, what will happen when they realize they like being near one another?
This was a very classical romance story and I liked reading it very much. It's the first book I try by the author, so I had no expectation except that it would be centered about an enemies to lovers story and that, of course, there would be a HEA at the end.
The plot is quite simple and offers plenty of scenes in which we can see the development of main characters' relationship. At the same time they do this or that task, they slowly get to spend time together and see another side of the other person, one they didn't think to assume because in the past, their friends set them up and nothing came out of it. Since then, there's animosity between them and they have endured one another, always trying to keep the upper hand. Why this happened is only revealed throughout the novel and feels a little childish but I could go with the idea anyway.
The tasks the friends set up are funny and meant to be entertaining and silly on purpose, I did like the humor in seeing them attempting those things but, as one can imagine, the real interest is in how they get to see another side of one another and how this allows them to bond. Until then, their jobs and personal lives didn't seem to matter, but of course the fun part of the romance is precisely that and foreman Dolan and veterinarian Everett somehow find themselves part of the other's sphere at some point.
I liked the romance and the guys' personalities, I loved it that the author took time to set up the steps between their animosity and the slow progress of them falling in love. Until a certain moment in the story, things were going on quite well but closer to the end, perhaps this would be unavoidable, there was some cheesiness and over the top situations. I don't think the plot required these things and perhaps the author just couldn't really help getting into them, but there were other better ways, I bet, to portray the same things.
Dolan and Everett are actually a cute couple and I liked seeing their romance. individually, they are both good guys, although I have a softer spot for Everett and the veterinarian thing, which is always super cute in romance novels (to me). I liked it that the author tried to insert as much of their personal lives as possible, so that we could feel the same attention was given to them both, separately from a romantic situation, but this was also a little obvious at times, which I suppose could be avoided.
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