Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Avery Flynn’s Mansplainer ends her Last Man Standing series exactly as it should…on laughs and sighs of contentment. I had been waiting for Nash’s story since he seemed to be a huge instigator of the deal between the cousins. When he creates a loophole for himself, Flynn treats us to a heroine who, quite frankly, is a true romance heroine. She knows herself, and she suffers no fools. She is compassionate and unsullied by the depth of money and depravity in her family. With Mansplainer, Flynn shows the effects of a world rife with toxic masculinity while also correcting it through the connection between her hero and heroine. Even more, she invites us back into the world of the Last Man Standing cousins which adds laughs to the serious topics of this book. To be honest, Nash feels like an afterthought in contrast to Flynn’s heroine, Chelle. I simply couldn’t get enough of her in all her forthright, honest, curvy-girliness. We do, however, get a better understanding of Nash’s mansplaining habit, and it humanizes him beyond his
“in your face” prankster ways. He is the way he is because he cares deeply for his family. Thankfully, Nash and Chelle find their own perfect happy ending…and yes, the present is opened by the book’s end.
In love and romance,
Professor A
Professor Romance 