Although this is the fourth book in a series, "Do Me a Favor" reads as a complete standalone. Characters from previous stories do make cameo appearances, however, and Babushka, the matchmaking Russian grandmother, plays a key role in Roman and Sadie's romance, much as she did for a few of the others in this series. I highly recommend the entire Mile High Matched series for all fans of contemporary romantic comedies, no matter what order you read them in.
About "Do Me a Favor"
Some days things just click. Today is not that day.
Love is a battlefield, and divorce attorney Sadie Howard is entrenched on the frontlines. She thought she might have met the right man once, but he was a career military guy who got shipped overseas and left her heart on the tarmac. These days, the only commitment Sadie wants is the one she's made to her Denver law practice.
Combat photographer Roman Dvornakov is back. Fresh out of the U.S. Army, he’s using family connections to snap photos at a few weddings while he builds his civilian photography practice. After all he’s captured on film, a few posed wedding shots should be a cakewalk. Seeing so much death through the camera lens, he’s now ready to build something worth living for. A thriving photography business, definitely. But he’s certain his new mission also includes Sadie, the girl who slipped away.
Sadie isn’t convinced, and she's not willing to open her heart anytime soon. Besides, she’s got a high-profile divorce case taking up all her attention. Winning the case for her client will make or break her practice. So what if it's a custody dispute over a ridiculously expensive fish tank? When Roman discovers the soon-to-be divorced couple are still in love, he and his slightly-nutty grandmother, Babushka, are determined to convince them to cancel the proceedings. He’s not camera shy when it comes to matters of the heart, but interfering with Sadie's clients could wreck her career and any chance they'll ever have together...
WARNING: READ ONLY IF YOU LOVE A STRONG HEROINE, AN ALPHA HERO WITH A HEART OF GOLD, FAMILY MEDDLING, AND A GUARANTEED HEA. IF LAUGHING SO HARD THAT THOSE AROUND YOU ASK IF YOU ARE OKAY IS YOUR THING, THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.
My Review
Christina Hovland's "Do Me a Favor" was a charming, funny, and sweet story with plenty of laugh out loud moments and likeable, well-developed characters. Female lead character Sadie was clearly a born lawyer: smart, tenacious, and maybe a bit stubborn, but sweet, kind, and lovable just the same. I loved the way she was always arguing, even if it was only with herself. Sadie's love interest, Roman, was also pretty great, very family-oriented with a wonderful sense of humor. He realized very quickly that he'd made a mistake with Sadie when they were together ten years earlier and was determined to convince her to give him a second chance, even if that meant enlisting the questionable matchmaking skills of his crazy Russian grandmother, Babushka.
I think Babushka meant well with her matchmaking, but her methods were unorthodox, to say the least, and she ended up being just as interfering and hilarious in this story as she was in the earlier ones. I enjoyed catching up with her, however, as well as the other characters from previous books who made cameo appearances, especially Eli (Sadie's brother) and his wife Marlee (Sadie's best friend). Marlee's dog Lothario was back too, in all of his shoe-defiling glory. The bromance that developed between Roman, Eli, Roman's brothers Jase and Zack, and their mutual friend Brek ended up being a lot of fun too.
I really hope that Ms. Hovland plans to write more stores in this series! This cast of characters is very entertaining and it seems like there is potential here for several future tales.
*ARC provided by the author via InkSlingerPR. All opinions expressed are my own.
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