Booked All Night: The Grump Next Door by Kendall Ryan

One guest house. One week. One slow-burn disaster waiting to happen.

Dean Whitaker has zero interest in weddings, fairy lights, or the perky woman currently turning his guest house into a scented-candle crime scene.

He’s a divorce attorney. He thrives on prenups, logic, and not getting glitter on his suits.

Poppy Monroe is a wedding planner with a checklist for everything—except how to survive living next door to a hot, brooding, tightly wound lawyer—aka the groom’s brother.

They’re opposites in every way—except for the undeniable chemistry neither of them wants to talk about.

Their mission: survive one week of wedding chaos.

Her sunshine and glitter pens.
His whiskey and restraint.

Opposites attract. Then they combust.

I enjoy enemies to lovers stories and Dean and Poppy's was fun. I related to both of them; his desire to help out his brother with absolutely no desire to have wedding guests traipsing all over his lawn. And her desire to prove that she is able to make a success by being focused and working hard.

I am not sure I totally believe a wedding planner could handle a wedding of this size all on her own, but I was willing enough to believe it that it worked for me and the story. And, as it was the basis of their story, and all of their arguments and banter, it worked even if it might have been a bit of a stretch to plausibility.

The story ARC was strong on the way to them being together, but I do think there was too much at the end of the story. I am not sure we needed all of the endings to know how this story was going to end. Was it enough to ruin the story? No. I just am not certain it was needed.

The scene stealing star of the show was the goat, or was it two goats? (It's a long story.)