Mama's Boy by Avery Flynn A Grand Romance

Mama’s Boy by Avery Flynn

Mama’s Boy by Avery Flynn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Hot, steamy and funny, Mama’s Boy is a rewarding read

What you need to know about “Mama’s Boy”:
✔ features The Hartigans
✔ Dual Point of View
✔ Hot & Steamy, Insta-love Romance
✔ Fiona Hartigan, third grade teacher
✔ Dixon Beckett, CEO of Beckett Cosmetics
✔ takes place in Harbor City
✔ Number 1 of a series, Last Man Standing

Mama’s Boy introduces three cousins: Dixon, Nash and Griff. Dixon “gullible was tattooed across his forehead” Beckett; he keeps a swarm of assistants to keep people away from him. Nash is “smooth” with “model looks” he always has quick, easy answers. Griff is all “tats and muscles” and keeps his mouth shut.

Their late grandma, Betty was known for her fantastic gift-giving so when they find an unlabelled Christmas present from her after her funeral they come up with a plan to figure out who it should go to.

The competition to get the gift is going to be: “the last man standing single…by Christmas.”

Dixon absolutely does not want to get married again as his wife died two years ago and he had decided never to fall in love again.

They each will have to go on a dating app and date the first woman who responds for six dates. And they get to plan each other’s dates.

Dixon thinks he’s going to win by writing the worst bio in dating app history including the fact that his date “must hate dogs”.

But he never counted on Fiona Hartigan.

Fiona is known for being gullible as well. She’s just discovered something about her most recent boyfriend that horrifies her and makes her mad at the world. She pledges to no longer be that gullible Fiona. She wants to be New Fiona and tries to act like her sister Fallon.

Before she deletes her dating app she scrolls through and sees Dixon’s bio. She’s been trying to get an appointment with Dixon for months so she decides dating him will be her revenge.

And so they meet.

Fiona and Dixon are so alike underneath the little lies and pretences they form that they are instantly attracted to one another. It’s almost a case of insta-love but later on they build a foundation for it so it made me less leery of that trope in this instance.

This book is an introduction to a series so it was a little clunky at first as it laid down the parameters of the bet and introduced the characters.

Thankfully the female main character is Fiona Hartigan, of the fabulous Hartigans who have been featured in many of Avery Flynn’s books.

The Hartigans always bring fun and shenanigans whenever they appear.

I loved the relationship between Dixon and Fiona even though it happened very fast. Dixon is a sympathetic character because of his past even though he’s so caught up in winning.

Fiona isn’t sure who she wants to be due to having her heart broken one too many times and that’s a concept that we can probably all relate to. Her loving nature shines through no matter how hard she tries to cover it up.

I’m looking forward to reading the other cousin’s stories and the ongoing story of the bet.

WRITING STYLE: 4/5
PLOT: 4/5
WORLD-BUILDING: 4/5
PACING: 4/5
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 4/5
ROMANCE: 4/5
HEAT: 5/5

I received an e-ARC of this book, my opinions are 100% my own.

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He’s exactly who you want to take home.

Top three lies about mama’s boys:

1. That we don’t know what we want. That one is straight up BS. I know exactly what I want—to win this bet with my cousins by any means necessary even if it means finding the worst possible date in all of Harbor City and agreeing to whatever she asks in exchange for her pretending to fall for me.

2. That we are soft, little wimps. Yeah, you don’t get to be CEO of a multibillion dollar company by letting other people take advantage of you. So as soon as I realize my date Fiona Hartigan isn’t exactly who she appears to be, there’s nothing that will stop me from figuring out the truth—no matter how many dates it takes to unravel that mystery.

3. That we don’t know how to kiss. Oh yes we do. The only problem is that once I start kissing Fiona, I don’t want to stop and I have to because we’ve already agreed that all of this is temporary.

Now I’m the guy that every woman wants to bring home to mom—except for the woman I’m fake dating and falling in love with for real.

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Meet Avery Flynn

When Avery Flynn isn’t writing about alpha heroes and the women who tame them, she is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. She has three slightly wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband, and has a slight shoe addiction. Find out more about Avery on her website, follow her on Twitter, like her on her Facebook page, or friend her on her Facebook profile. Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the internet, she’ll be your best friend for life. Contact her at [email protected]. She’d love to hear from you.

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