Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read: ✱✱Audio Book Review✱✱ Don't Mind If "I Do" by Everly Ashton

Thursday, April 14, 2022

✱✱Audio Book Review✱✱ Don't Mind If "I Do" by Everly Ashton

Don't Mind If "I Do"

By: Everly Ashton

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Ava Erickson

It’s not every day the woman who broke your heart asks to be your wife.

Life is good. I’m single. I’m an emergency room doctor. And according to my hookups, I’m hot AF. Then she walks back into my life.

I haven’t seen Mazzy Pembrooke since the night she betrayed me. So when she comes into my work asking me to make good on a childhood pact and marry her, I’m speechless. She’s the last woman I’d want to marry - even if it’s pretend and with a definitive end date.

But after I find myself in a sticky situation at work, marrying Mazzy might just benefit me, too.

Once we’re living as husband and wife under the same roof, though, I struggle to remember that I hate this woman, and the fake marriage doesn’t feel so fake anymore.

Don’t Mind if “I Do” is a fake-marriage, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers rom-com loaded with laughs. No cheating. HEA. Buy now.

Momma Says: 4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐

Somehow Don't Mind If "I Do" is my first Everly Ashton book, and now I'm wondering how I've missed her. This was such a totally fun listen. Of course, there are feels too, and plenty of them, but the pacing and laughs turned out to be exactly what I needed this week. Enemies to lovers is one of my favorite romance tropes, and this one takes it a step further for a friends to enemies to lovers romantic comedy. Enemies to lovers is always good for some fun banter, and when you couple that with a pair that used to be friends, they really know how to generate some fire - of both kinds. Nick and Mazzy are a great couple, and all the feelings are there whether they want to admit them or not.

Teddy Hamilton and Ava Erickson give voice to Nick and Mazzy, and while I've heard and enjoyed both before, this is the first time I've listened to them in the same book. Their voices suit these characters so well, and they do a terrific job of capturing the mood of the story. The author chose well with these narrators, and I look forward to more of her work as well as theirs.