Exceptional story! This book is wonderfully written and the story just blew me away. I loved these characters and it was fun to see them change their view of not only what they want in life but each other as well.

Being nanny for little Charlie was the greatest job Megan Carter could have had while going to school and completely her education degree. Now she's finished with school and ready to move on in her career. Unfortunately leaving the two people who have become so important to her isn't going to be easy. Even worse Adam has asked her to help him find her replacement. Only this new person won't be just a nanny. No Adam has decided that finding a wife is the way to go. No love required, just someone to be there and help him raise Charlie.

You'll want to read this book to experience the journey of Adam and Megan as they both come to realize exactly what is most important in life. I highly recommend this book!

'She knew she needed to be sensible, but it was like her heart wanted to jump up and say, “Me! Let it be me.”'

Sigh. (The good kind, promise.)

That’s how I feel at the end of Let It Be Me by Jody Holford. It’s a warm, sweet, feel good romance—one that is light on angst and altogether just a really enjoyable read.

It’s funny—normally I feel like I have a lot to say about the books I read, but with this one, I kind of don’t. And please, don’t take that to mean this book isn’t worthy, because it is. It absolutely is. It’s charming and has a lovely redemption tale—of sorts—for Adam, who initially came off as an *expletive deleted* and then grew into someone crush-worthy. Someone Megan-worthy. It’s incredibly easy to sink into this book, and to smile about it, get invested in it and like it. A whole hell of a lot.

Lord, I am explaining myself terribly. It’s just . . . this is one of those books that leaves you feeling happy. Satisfied. A little sparkly, like a chick from a rom-com or a woman who just had brownies for breakfast. #NotMe #OkayYesItWasMe.

Let It Be Me isn’t perfect—I was bothered a bit, at times, but Adam’s choices and reasoning—but it doesn’t have to be. Life isn’t, after all. And oh, my swoony heart was more than rewarded by the way Adam and Megan and Charlie’s story unfolded.

So, yeah, I think sigh covers it. A good sigh. A happy one.
Kind of like this book.

“You make me crazy.”
“Then we’re even.”

~ FOUR STARS ~

in let it be me megan carter has been adam klein's nanny for 6 years, but now that she's finished her education degree she's ready to move on. which is why it's inconvenient that she's suddenly seeing her boss in an entirely new, different, too sexy light.

she's always cared for him, he's a good father to his son charlie, and a good employer even if he's demanding. but now that she's leaving he seems to be asking more of her. going so far to ask her to help him find a wife to replace megan's place in their lives.

this is an insane request, but megan can't help wishing he would look at her as a possibility. but megan wants romance and love and adam has been there, done that and wants something stable and rational.

he's not wrong to want those things, but what he fails to see is that even if you don't call something love, it can still be love. and megan needs to learn to trust that it's not just what someone says, it's what they do that can reveal their true feelings. these two are all mixed-up and tangled up, but the way they figure it all out is sweet and gives them both room to grow, which is very satisfying.

**let it be me will publish on january 29, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (bliss) in exchange for my honest review.

Megan loves her job, taking care of Charlie. What she doesn't like, is his workaholic dad, Adam. When things take a bizarre turn, she can't believe she agrees to do one last job. After getting his heart broken, due to his ex wife and Charlie's mom, he has closed his heart off and asks Megan to find him a wife, one that doesn't want love.
During the course of the book, which is a short amount of time, they both realize that they have been harboring unknown feelings. He finds something faulty with each woman but enjoys all of his time with Megan. She is doing her job and wishing he would pick her. When they can't fight the attraction, can they separate work from personal? Will feelings muddy the waters? Can they admit how they truly feel in time, or will it be too late when all is said and done?
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest, voluntary review.

DNF at 58%.

On paper I should love this book. I like the author, I'm a sucker for single Dad and nanny romances, and the premise of the employer asking the nanny to set him with dates in order to find some woman who would be happy to have a polite, marriage-of-convenience in order to provide a mother for his little boy? Fraught with comedy opportunity.

Megan Carter is nanny to Charlie. His mother is an actress who valued her career more than her marriage or her child. His father Adam is a good Dad and does everything he can be home to put Charlie to bed and read him a bedtime story each night, but he is also fully committed to partnership at his job (can't recall if he's a lawyer/ accountant whatever) driven in part by his own childhood in which his feckless father couldn't be relied upon to put food on the table or clothes on his son's back. In fact, Adam is a tad obsessive on this point but feels that partnership will help him ensure that Charlie never wants for anything.

Sadly, this didn't work for me. Adam's ridiculous scheme needed to be grounded in something other than him being supremely disinterested in lifting a finger to find a mother for his son. Delegating to the nanny, no matter how competent and beloved by the family, is not cool. His poor-me shtick was tedious in the extreme and his priorities were skewed. My dislike reached a peak when he took his son and the nanny to a arcade (to make up for not attending his son's presentation) and then left to pitch to a new client at a moment's notice. Yet when he decides to bang the nanny he can suddenly turn off his work phone for the first time ever - nice priorities dude!

And the negative reading vibe continues...

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

I really connected with Adam and Megan's story.

Megan works for Adam in caring for his son. She has worked for him for 5 years and they've never spent much time together. As Megan gets ready to quit and move onto being a school teacher, she ends up spending more time with Adam to find a replacement for her. What Adams wants though, is a wife who is more of a partner in raising Charlie than a soulmate. Adam and Megan end up crossing the employee/employer line and Megan falls hard. What Adam doesn't expect is that he falls hard, too. He just won't admit that's what happened.

This story really moved me. The fact that Adam had been brought up with no love and then completely gave up on love and hope in his life when his ex-wife left him broke my heart. For the man he became to be so alone yet such a loving parent. Megan saw all that and just needed him to take a chance on love. It was a very touching story and I fell in love with Adam, too. I really enjoyed Megan's friends and family as well. And of course Charlie who is Adam's son moved me to tears, too. Great story!

If you enjoy a nanny-and-her-boss romance, you likely will enjoy Jody Holford's contribution to the genre. You will like Megan, a young woman whose goals and aspirations have tended to be placed second to the needs of others. Having worked as a nanny for a few years, she is ready to pursue a career as an elementary school teacher. But she loves her young charge, Charlie, and she doesn't want to abandon his father, Adam. Will she put herself first?

Adam, meanwhile, is one of thsoe "burn me once" kind of guys. He is leery of any emotional attachments, save for that with his son. He'd like to get married again, but he wants it to be a transaction borne of practicality rather than romance.

Holford builds the tension and conflict between Adam and Megan, showing you that they belong together, even as each needs to make some compromises for that to happen. There are some romantic scenes, but they are largely Rated R; nothing gets too graphic.

This is a sweet little romance, nad you will come to care for Megan and Adam and, most of all, Charlie.

3.5 Stars!

Adam is a divorced single father. His own father drank away their income and his mom left when he was 13, never looking back. Add onto the fact that his ex-wife cared more about her rising career in acting than him or their son, this has greatly affected his outlook on life.

When Adam first hires Megan to be Charlie's nanny, he became so focused on building a better future for his son that he has become a workaholic. Over the 5 years that Megan has been with them, he not only has taken advantage of the fact that she's always there to take care of Charlie but he's also lost site in the fact that all Charlie wants is to have his dad around.

Megan has finished school and is ready to start her career as a teacher which means Adam needs to find a replacement. This is where things get interesting. Adam work so much that after five years, Megan and Adam have always kept their relationship very professional and yet now he's asking Megan to help him find a wife instead of a new nanny.

Adam doesn't want another temporary person in Charlies life. His analytical brain thinks he can find a woman that will be agreeable to marring Adam like a partnership. Megan is taken aback by this request but she loves Charlie and agrees to help Adam find a list of candidates. This has forced an intimacy between these two that they have otherwise avoided over the years.

At first I really didn't like Adam. He was pretty cold and there was no warmth towards Megan. As the story unfolds, you learn why this is. With his past and how things ended with his ex-wife, Adam knows that Megan deserves the happily ever after he doesn't believe in anymore.

As Megan searches for the stepford wife he is looking for, Adam starts to see what an incredible woman Megan is and how much he and Charlie truly care about her and depend on her. You really get to see the change in Adam and how he thaws from this cold business man to falling in love and not really realizing it.

I don't know if this is a series but I'm hoping that it is. I really want the story of the Megan and Adams best friends.

This book contains both cursing (a lot, including f-bombs) and explicit on screen sex.

This book was not my cup of tea. There was a lot of inner dialogue, and a lot of secondary characters/scenes that were fine but that didn't really add a lot to the story (her brother and his partner being the lone exception). But the biggest problem with the book was that I really, really didn't like Adam. AT ALL. I spent most of this book wishing he'd just go away and that Megan would hook up with her brother's boyfriend, and then a miracle happened and Adam started to become likable! Happy about that, I started to warm up to him....but then he acted like an absolute tool and totally ruined any positive feelings that I had found for him. UGH. By the end, when he had his big turn around, I just didn't care. I just wanted Megan to grab Charlie, run like the wind and not look back. I'm just not sold on their happily ever after because I don't buy Adam's miraculous turn-around.

Although this book wasn't for me, I appreciate the publisher's willingness to grant me an advanced copy of this book.

I’ve not read anything by this author before but the blurb for this book called to me and I have to give this book ago. I do love finding new authors and books to read as I just love to read. I am made up that I did give this book and this author ago, as this is one great book to read. Has a good storyline, amazing characters and great romance. I truly enjoyed reading this book from start to finish and I would love to read more books by this author too. I will keep a look out for future books and I would totally recommend this book.

This has to be one of the sweetest romance novels I have had the pleasure to read in a long time. I absolutely loved the slow burning love between Adam and Megan. When I first read the blurb i wasnt sure it wasnt going to live up to the hype of being a great read. But the author proved me wrong. This truely was a sweet story about a nanny falling head over heels in love with her boss. You will laugh, cry and scream at Adam to get it together. The sub characters are just as good. Declan is a funny guy. I can’t wait to see if the author writes a novel about him
Adam learns to fight the demons of his past to find his love for Megan. Its a real struggle for him. His heart has already been broken and he works day and night to give his son what he thinks he needs. Megan is the outgoing, loving and sweet nanny who loves Charlie like her own son. I loved how these characters didnt have any attraction towards each other straight away. Even though Megan had been working with the family for five years before. This is one sweet book you will want to sink your teeth into. NO over the top sex scenes. Its blurs into black. Nothing but sweet romance that takes your breath away.

4.5 stars - Megan's a nanny and she loves her Charlie like a mother loves her child. His dad, Adam, is a different story, or is he? A series of events leads Megan to discover that there is a great deal about Adam and his past that she didn't know. His past has shaped him, but maybe it doesn't have to rule him.

It’s a great story about family, friends, and being brace enough to fall in love.

I received an ARC of this book, from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Not for me. This one just didn't work for me. Megan is a doormat who defends Adam despite the fact that he isn't a great guy or a great dad. Adam is a rediculous character who I just couldn't like. Just not the book for me.

Oh, you guys, Let it Be Me was such a treat! I wasn’t sure what to expect going into it. I mean, not really. There are certain things I automatically expect from Ms. Holford’s books: authenticity, heartwarming interactions, and a certain sweetness threaded throughout the story. Those things are all present here, but I felt like there was a bit of unexpected edginess in this one. A hero who was frankly unlikable at first, giving me pause and causing me to wonder how he could ever be redeemed. And then…he was. And masterfully so. How she took a hero I could barely keep myself from skimming over, and turned him into someone who completely owned my heart by the end of the story is nothing short of magic (witchcraft!).

Honestly, if you like your heroes…not particularly nice, but with a fantastically heartwarming redemption story attached to them, you’re going to love this. LOVE this. And I did. I loved Adam – for all his stodginess, he made laugh and – seemingly against all odds – swoon like cray. I adored Megan like crazy. I loved her kind spirit and plucky personality. And I loved how little Charlie fit into the whole picture. Their story unfolds slowly – which means that the burn is slow, and drawn out, but it kept me on the line and always hungry for more. The whole story was just incredibly rewarding and there were moments (especially toward the end) where I literally felt my heart flutter at the sweetness of it all.

I’ve been reading Ms. Holford’s books for a while now, and I feel like each one is a little more polished, a little richer, and pulls at my heart a little more insistently. Let it Be Me is a fantastic addition to her collection of work – it’s every sweet and satisfying thing I’ve come to expect from this author – and then some. Definitely recommend!

Despite seeming to fit into a formulaic plot of hot guy falling for his nanny, there were several aspects that made this novel stand out. The heroine, Megan is a sweetheart and has a wonderful relationship with the little boy, Charlie, that she’s been taking care of for five years since he was two. Unfortunately, the hero, Adam, is really rather a cold stick of a guy. - Having had one failed marriage, he’s determined never to love again. But he is going to need someone to replace Megan now that she is going to leave to become a teacher. So he decides he needs to be married, but can’t marry “the hot nanny” because Megan will want love and romance, so he insensitively asks her to find him a new wife by going through a dating app to screen possible women.

It’s a silly set-up and you’ll just want to smack Adam upside the head. His best friend, Declan, is much more appealing. In spite of how irritating Adam is through much of the book, I still really enjoyed this story, mostly because of Megan and Charlie and the secondary characters.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

4.5☆
What I liked:
The writing style
The characters
Dec
Part of a series: Love Unexpected
Standalone
HEA

I look forward to reading more from Jody Holford.

3,5 stars
Cute contemporary romance about a single dad and a nanny who fall in love. This is my first Jody Holford book and I enjoyed it.

This is a cute read but I didn't really feel the connection between the main characters, I wish Adam would have been less of a douchecanoe.

**I received a copy of Let it be me from Entangled Publishing and Net Galley in exchange for a honest and voluntary review**

Let it be me by Jody Holford was a pleasant surprise but my only wish would be a bit more heat between the H/h. Other than that you'll fall in love with Parker and Garrett, Stella and of course Charlie. I'd give the book a solid 4 stars total. This is the first book that I've read by Jody Holford and look forward to reading Stella and Parker/Garrett's stories in the future I hope.

Adam Klein has been burned by love before but he loves his son Charlie so much. Little does she know when his nanny, Meg, for the past 5 years announces that she'll be leaving at the end of the summer that he'll ask to her to find her replacement and wife. I was bit amazed that he'd ask this of someone who was always there when he left suddenly on business trips and took care of his son. Don't get me wrong he loves Charlie very much but because he's a driven account manger at work (who takes advantage of that) that he'll soon realize that he must chose between work, Charlie and yes, Megan.

Megan loves her boss and Charlie a little pint sized seven year old who will soon wrap his little arms are your heart. But now that she has her degree and wants to start teaching, she'll be leaving the home where she helped raise Charlie and fell in love with Adam. When he breaks her heart it will be her brother Parker and his boyfriend Garrett and her BFF Stella who will gather her in their arms (while threatening to hurt Adam) until Adam realizes that he can love again and that person is Megan.

I fell in love with every person in this book. Jody Holford wrote such interesting, fun and dynamic characters how could you not?

First we have Megan who has worked her way through college to become a teacher and worked as a live-in nanny to finance her education. There is no cliche nanny/boss romance or tension in this story- well at least not for the 5 years Megan was there before putting in her notice. But there was LOVE. Megan fell hard and forever in love with Charlie, the sweetest little boy ever. How can she leave this guy who holds her heart?

Adam, Charlie's dad, has been aloof with Megan her entire tenure. Adam also is hard to like as he comes off as inconsiderate, selfish and contradictory. He touts that all he does and his devotion to his job is to make things better for Charlie and be a better father than he had yet he never seems to have time because his job comes first.

Now that it's time for her to leave it's like blinders have fallen off Megan's eyes and she actually sees her boss as the sexy man that he is she has found herself in a dilemma. Adam tries to act like he has a stone heart except for Charlie. His new notice into the woman that is his nanny is surprising and a place he won't let his heart to go. Megan is a heart and flowers forever type a girl and Adam has been there done that hated it guy.

Needing someone to take over for Megan, Adam decides a partner wife (no emotions or love) is a perfect fit and finagles Megan to help him find a wife. This is a fun portion of the story. These two fumble around one another and clearly are smitten but there is no admittin' (I know- lame). Adam relaxes and let's his walls down and is the sweetest and most affectionate guy- it's swoony! He still doesn't think he is capable of love. Adam tears your heart out with his struggle and I was scared he wouldn't pull it together. He came a long way from the man at the beginning of the story so I guess love can change a man.

I loved Megan's family- they are all so loving and supportive as is her friend Stella. I also thought Declan was a good character and would like to see him with his own story- maybe with Stella.