Meddling With Maverick (Matchmaking in Granville Book 1)

Love this first book in the new series. Damon and Maverick are an unlikely match but yet perfect for each other. Those meddling matchmaking mamas are very mischievous, but they keep you wanting more. I started it at 10 pm , yesterday and finished it at 200 am, kept me hooked from beginning to end like all of DJ Jamison's books and series. Cannot wait for the rest.

Had everything you need , a bit of snaky banter and few pranks and some sweet dates. And some hot stuff mixed it. Fun and light read.

Meddling with Maverick by D. J. Jamison is the first book in her Matchmaking in Granville series. I suggest you read her other books that are set there as many of the characters in them reoccur in this one. This is the story of a man whose ideas of how to solve problems usually don’t work out and his neighbor who has become the brunt of them and how they go from loathing each other to falling in love. Damon Cassidy works in construction for Scott Construction Company in Granville, Nebraska. He is confident but everyone else thought he was egotistical, funny but came across as sarcastic, and because of this couldn’t keep a girlfriend no matter how hard he tried. Maverick was the florist in town and had opened up Rainbow Gardens a year ago. He shared a duplex with Damon and when they met there was an altercation over rules that had Damon shutting the door in his face. This then started a prank war between them and some of them were pretty funny. Damon would do something that would be embarrassing to Maverick and he didn’t expect it when Mav would do something equally embarrassing right back to him. This went on for a while when Damon got the idea of having the Matchmaking Mamas, an elderly group of gossipy women in town who had a matchmaking business, set up Mav on a series of dates. Mav was horrified but after talking to his friend, Jamie, he decided to go on them as payback, plus he was lonely and was hoping to find his forever guy and this was as good a place as any to see…

I love DJ Jamison's writing, the small town worlds she builds, and the funny elements that thread from story to story. That said, Meddling With Maverick had great moments, but overall was a touch unsatisfying, probably because I like Jamison's full length books, so the novella format felt short. Damon and Maverick are cute together, and I'm looking forward to the other books in the series. 3.5 rounded down.

It's Neighbor Wars! Featuring hot, macho, construction guy Damon versus sweet, gay florist Maverick. They fight like cats and dogs, p.o.'d at each other, pranking left and right until one prank too many and their imaginations light up their love lives. All that energy expended was just foreplay, the build up to the fireworks with a bi-awakening. I loved Damon's jealousy but he was all in once he figured himself out. I received a copy of this and this is my voluntary opinion.