Do Me a Favor

Cathy Yardley, author of Role Playing, serves up a delectable rom-com about a widowed cookbook writer and a divorced handyman who find that it's never too late for a fresh start.

Willa Lieu-Endicott moved from California to the Pacific Northwest to start over. Since her husband's death, she's been struggling to get back her old career as a cookbook ghostwriter. Unfortunately, her latest project--ghostwriting for a viral cooking sensation known more for his washboard abs than his meals--has her stuck.

Until she meets her new neighbor.

Hudson Clark, the handyman next door, lives on a farm with his parents and two adult children. He's the opposite of everything she's ever known. His happily chaotic life includes biker barbecues, an escape artist dog, and adorably menacing goats. He's also got a sinfully sexy smile and a rumbling bass voice that makes her shiver. He inspires her.

From their first meeting, the two fall into an escalating cycle of favors, paybacks...and attraction, even though Willa's trying to keep her distance.

They both have their own pasts to deal with. Now, they just have to figure out if they have a future.

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Published Jul 23, 2024

299 pages

Average rating: 5.33

3 RATINGS

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whatmiareads
Apr 11, 2023
You feel like the end of the world and the beginning of the next one

I actually found a good quote from this ridiculous book, can't believe it.

There is no point in you being there. You’re not focused, Posy
At the start of the book, ballerina is taken somewhere bc her head's not in the game until we figure out:
He probably suspects I’m still a virgin at age eighteen, but there’s no need to confirm it for him
because her coach thought she was always thinking of dicks but according to her she didn't because she was getting bullied.

One night with my lunatic brother should cure you real fast, Posy
how nice of the coach to pimp out his brother for whatever to help Posy though, real caring.
I’m distracted from that thought when something brushes my belly and I look down to find his erection stretching his pants
Somehow big and tall giant doesn't scare Posy away bc the giant has an erection after staring at her mouth.
It’s the size of my arm, wrist to elbow. Wider
I laughed so hard at this

So the tall giant is a:
I’ve never taken one to bed because I can’t get over my disgust toward women long enough to relieve myself
virgin and
This is not how women behave. They smile and parade around until they’re ready to stab a man in the back
and he has major trust issues even when Posy is screaming in fear instead of pleasure.

I bring my mouth flush to hers and capture it in a hard kiss—and I sink my middle finger deep between her legs, just wanting to prove she’s wet
wrong move man especially when she said she didn't want it:
I feel the gentle tear—and the sensation paralyzes me. What was that? She can’t be…a virgin? This girl is a virgin?
Please let me…make you better. I don’t know how, but I’ll figure it out
yeah if I were her I'd remove his balls for him tbh.

But instead of doing that, Problematic Posy is:
then you can tell me what happened to make you think all women are liars
curious about his past instead and wtf am I reading? Even after hearing his story, Posy didn't run away when the door was wide open. Instead:
before I go…I can’t shake the feeling that this is exactly where I’m meant to be. With Smith
she asked him to screw her instead.

Do you like being Daddy’s baby doll, Posy? I want to fuck her and be her father figure at the same time
So we've got not only a non con giant, but a wannabe daddy one too.
I can see a dried trickle of her virgin blood on her parted flesh, my tongue licking it up like a feast
did he mistake it for strawberry jam because it ain't it man
When Daddy says raw dog, it means both of those pretty little holes, baby
I find it so cheesy like who even says raw dog during sex that just sounds so awful and I'm so turned off my god.

The rest of the book is just the dramatic attempt of break up and them getting back together. I know my Jessa Kane reviews are not serious and taken lightly but this book really is bad. Red alerts all over the book, red bells ringing of all kinds of warning sounds and still I chose to read this. Read this only if you don't mind the stupidity of the tall giant whose name I don't even know.

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