As promised, here's me binge-reading through yet another author. This time, we have Lily Morton's Close Proximity series. The first novel is titled "Best Man."
["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."]
These two. I mean, like...wow. I loved this book. It was a little reminiscent of "Oz" with the interview and the protectiveness that Jesse has for Zeb and how Zeb just wants Jesse to be happy. But it was more too. Their dynamic was all there own.
It was messy and it was impulsive and chaotic and charming and funny and beautiful. There was a few angst moments, some really harsh moments, but it (obviously) all worked out in the end. ;)
A little (okay, really upset over here) that I can't find the two short stories that Lily wrote to accompany this book anywhere.
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