AUDIO REVIEW: Best Man by Lily Morton (Close Proximity #1)

- July 29, 2023

BEST MAN

Close Proximity - Book One

by Lily Morton

Release Date: October 13, 2019

Audio Review: September 29, 2021

Review

If you do one good thing for yourself in this life, it’ll be to listen to one of Lily’s books narrated by Joel Leslie. This duo will make you laugh, cry, and swoon in equal measure. Truly there is something magical about them.

Zeb is a hot mess in a buttoned-up, in-control persona. He’s beautiful, and flawed, and has so much to he needs to work through in order to get his happy ending. Really, there’s no one more perfect for him than chaotic, lively Jesse.

Wild and often hilarious drama ensues when Jesse agrees to be Zeb’s fake boyfriend at his ex’s wedding.

The push and pull between these two was fantastic. Special mention to Zeb’s relationship with his stepbrother Max. Something about that dynamic just made me melt.

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Synopsis

Zeb Evans doesn’t do messy.

The product of a disorganised and chaotic childhood, Zeb likes order and control, and as the boss of his own employment agency he can give that to himself. Life runs along strict lines and he never mixes business with pleasure. Everything in his life lives in neat, alphabetized boxes. Until Jesse.

Jesse Reed is Zeb’s complete opposite. He’s chaos personified. A whirling cyclone of disorder. He’s also charming and funny and a very unwanted distraction.

Which is why it comes as a complete surprise to Zeb to find himself asking Jesse to pose as his boyfriend for a few days in the country at a wedding.

Zeb doesn’t do impulsive, but as the time away progresses, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the merry and irreverent Jesse. But can he bring himself to break the hard-won lessons he’s learnt in life? And even if he can, how could Jesse be attracted to him anyway? He’s so much older than Jesse, not to mention being his boss.

From the bestselling author of the Mixed Messages and Finding Home series comes a warm and funny romance about one man’s fight for control and another man’s determination to circumvent it.

This is the first book in the Close Proximity series, but it can be read as a standalone.

About Lily Morton

Lily lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven’t had a proper conversation with her since she bought her first Kindle.

She has spent her life with her head full of daydreams and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing, because how else could she get to spend her time with hot, funny men!

She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations – chocolate Baileys! Her lifetime’s ambition is to have a bath in peace without being shouted by one of her family.

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