Do You Take This Man by Denise Williams – a Review
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Description:
Divorce attorney RJ would never describe herself as romantic. But when she ends up officiating an unplanned wedding for a newly engaged couple in a park, her life is turned upside down. The video of the ceremony goes viral, and she finds herself in the unlikely position of being a sought-after local wedding officiant. Spending her free time overseeing “I dos” isn’t her most strategic career move, but she enjoys it, except for the type A dude-bro wedding planner she’s forced to work with.
Former pro-football event manager Lear is a people person, but after his longtime girlfriend betrayed him, he isn’t looking for love. He knows how to execute events and likes being in control, so working with an opinionated and inflexible officiant who can’t stand him is not high on his list. He’s never had trouble winning people over, but RJ seems immune to his charms.
Surrounded by love at every turn, their physical attraction pulls them together despite their best efforts to stay an arm’s length apart. Lear refuses to get hurt again. RJ refuses to let herself be vulnerable to anyone. But when it comes to happily ever after, their clients might not be the only ones saying “I do.”
Review:
Do You Take This Man by Denise Williams is another one of her sweet fun romances. We meet our heroine, RJ, who is a successful divorce attorney, and after conducting a well written marriage ceremony in the park, which had a video going viral, she has become the most wanted wedding officiant. When RJ rushes from her job to perform a ceremony, she collides with a man, with all her paperwork flying all over.
Lear, is an event planner, who is helping his cousin run the events. Even though he crashed into RJ, Lear doesn’t apologize and is abrasive; to his surprise, he notices the woman he bumped into is the wedding officiant. They both immediately do not like each other, with each being sarcastic; especially with Lear constantly interrupting RJ, telling her what he wants to do, and she is fuming, as she is in charge of the ceremony.
RJ is very good at her job, being a divorce lawyer, working with wealthy clients, even if she does not believe in love. Lear is also not interested in finding love, as he is still trying to get over a terrible breakup. They both clash a lot at first, and gradually things will change and they become frenemies with benefits. It was amazing to watch them slowly begin to feel the sexual tension between them, and their banter was also fun to watch; literally unable to keep their hands off each other. It was at times frustrating, as they continued to not allow themselves to fall hard for each other, only enjoying the sex.
Do You Take This Man was a romance novel with a enemies to lovers trope, that is a fast-paced, sexy story with lots of banter, emotions, and humor. I did enjoy and root for RJ and Lear, but early on they were both very toxic to each other, but it did change fast.
What follows is a wonderful, fun, emotional and sexy enemies to lover’s romance, with a couple that we weren’t sure they would fall in love. Do You Take This Man was a challenging, fun, engaging contemporary romance that was very well written by Denise Williams. I fully suggest if you enjoy pure romances, that you read this book.
Reviewed by Barb
Copy provided by Publisher
