Great read. Well-developed characters. Easy to follow storyline with low drama. Would highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to pass a couple of hours.

This unfortunately was not the read for me - I did not care for the characters nor the romance at all. It simply took me a bit to get through this one.

This have been archived for review because the release day was in 2019. We hope the pick this book up again once we are caught up with more current reviews.

Tawna's books are always filled with humor, witty banter, sizzlin' chemistry and stories that keep you reading till the last page.

Don't miss a fun not to be missed book!

The Last is another HEA story by Tawna Fenske that will give you all the feels.
This isn’t a typical friends to lovers story. Its has steamy chemistry and a lesson on how you can only lie to yourself for so long.

Buckle up- you’re in for some Goodwill steals, cat butts, steamroom sex, and lots of laughs!

I sadly was not able to finish this one. Life got rhe better of me around the time this book was being reviewed. And I just wasn't able to get myself all the way though.
That doesn't mean it was a bad book. I really enjoyed what I had read before having to stop.
But I would love to get some time and be able to restart and finally finish this one

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The pacing felt a little off to me, particularly at the beginning and I would have loved more backstory for the couple's 10-year friendship. Ian was not my favorite leading man- melodramatic and too self-pitying, in my opinion.

Big fan of this author and her books.
***********************I received an ARC for my honest review.************************

I love love love this author. Her books are entertaining, and they keep you reading until the last page and then your looking to see if there is more....Great weekend or couple day read....Okay so I read it in one day and the kids ate cereal...

I really enjoyed this book. I’m a big fan of Tawna Fenske. Her stories have humor and heart. This book was no exception. The characters were real and relatable. Well done!

I enjoyed this emotional romcom. It was a rollercoaster ride all the way until the end.
At first I wasn't sure about Ian but he grew on me the further I got.
Sarah was a great character who kept me laughing throughout.
I cried at times and I snorted laughing at times. That's how you know a book is good, when you can feel many different emotions throughout.
I was unable to put this one down. Thank you for the opportunity to review. I look forward to reading more by this author.

This story was sexy and funny and of course we got to spend time with our friends we’ve come to love through this series and at the front of everything were Sarah and Ian. I loved how the story started and then the doorbell rings and we’re along for the ride with Sarah and Ian, their banter made me laugh and it was like they never missed a beat from the last time they were together. I also really enjoyed that we got to visit some of our other favorite characters from another series by Tawna Fenske in this book, that was pretty cool. This was truly a great book and the ending was totally Sarah and Ian especially the way he recreated their past in his ‘dorm room’ and of course how could you not be in love with Junie. I didn’t want this book to end.

As someone who is a fan of author Tawna Fenske, I found The Last to be a fun, light-hearted comedy with plenty of heat.

The idea that two friends would remember a decade old pact sets the stage as Sarah prepares to hit a milestone birthday. There’s no denying the heat between Sarah and Ian. I especially enjoyed the scenes with Sarah’s friends, especially Junie from the group home Sarah manages for adults with Down Syndrome. The author does a tremendous job highlighting Junie as a capable, loving person.

As Sarah and Ian try to make a go of a marriage of convenience with a lengthy engagement, the couple finds there is a fine line between being besties and falling in love. While they can readily admit to a connection, there’s something about the word “love” that has Ian backing away. The scenes between them demonstrate the messy displays of emotion. It takes almost losing it all for them to realize marriage is much more than a logic-based proposition.

The journey to discover the value of love was well worth it in this story.

A casual relationship gets serious when they're getting closer to 30 and try to think logically instead of with their hearts. But then, of course, their hearts start to take over. Such a cute story and I would love to read more by this author.

Sarah was sure she’d be married by 30. Husband, kids, the kick-ass career. she assumed she’d have it all, and there’d be no need to fall back on the marriage pact she made with her best pal from college. She calls him up and what she doesn't expect is him to remember, and propose they go for it.
Their friendship is stronger than ever, and the sexual chemistry is off the charts.
But is that enough to make a marriage work, or will one of them fall hard and end up brokenhearted?

I really enjoyed this book. There is a perfect mix of romance, drama & comedy, with an off the charts steam level. Sarah & Ian are easy to love. I found myself rooting for them from their very first conversation.

This book was really sweet but it is also dealing with though subjects like divorce, death of a sibling and handicapped siblings. I think this is the last book in the series. The first three book are about three sisters and “The last” is about their best friend Sarah.
Sarah was sure when she turns thirty she would be married with kids. But that did not happen. The day she turns thirty she writes to her college best friend Ian and he asks her if she remembers their pact from college. That when they turn thirty and they are not married or in long term relationships they would marry each other. He then turns up at her apartment and proposes to her because he needs a wife to secure him his dream job. But she cannot fall in love with him since he is not capable of loving someone and she has to tell him if her feelings changes so they can drop the marriage. But what happens when two best friends shares a past and a now, can they agree on a future together or is love going to ruin it all?
I really liked the main characters but Ian is very stuck in his head, he is very proud and he is sure he can close of his heart and say that love is not aloud in his life. You can be best friends, be married, have sex and so on without mixing love into it. Well you can but what kind of a marriage would that be? And with the chemistry they share that would be very though to maintain.
I can definitely recommend this book and you can read it as a stand-alone which I did without missing much.

This was okay for me. The writing flowed well, although at the beginning of the story it was a little confusing. I haven't read any of the other books in this series, and there were a lot of names and situations thrown around that I just didn't get. Ian and Sarah reconnect after 10 years and after that, the relationship between them progresses quickly. They had great chemistry though. I did get tired of Ian's "I can't do a relationship". I wanted to smack him a couple of different times. I felt like his turn around happened rather suddenly, and I would have liked for him not to have held on to that belief for the whole book. The ending was sweet, and of course they got their HEA. Although this was a first for me from this author, I will be giving her another read.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced readers copy of this book.

This was a sweet, short story with plenty of erotica peppered into a beautiful love story.

Turning 30 and still single leads Sarah and Her college best friend, Ian, to follow through on a marriage pact they made when they were 19.

Only problem is, Ian’s heart broke when he lost his younger brother so he’s decided to never love anyone ever again. He thinks a business arrangement is the beat way to find a wife, and who better than his best friend? The more time they spend together, though, the more Sarah realizes she can’t spend her life without his love in return.

The Last by Tawna Fenske not only packed an emotional punch, but it also had me laughing out loud. It takes a special writer to balance heavy emotion with comic relief and Ms. Fenske not only does it, she does it well. College best friends who made a “marriage pact” find themselves both unattached at that magical age of 30 and despite their differing views on love and marriage, find that even without seeing each other in years, their friendship is stronger and ever not to mention new found chemistry.

Early on in this book I wasn’t sure I was going to like the hero, Ian Nolan, very much. He was detached and emotionally unavailable, yet there was something about him that intrigued me. It was obvious that his parent’s divorce and his brother’s death had impacted him greatly at a crucial time in his life and he made an emotional and irrational decision to never love anyone again because all it caused was heartache and pain, but from the minute he reconnected with Sarah Keating, I could see past that hard outer shell and I knew inside was a man who needed love in his life almost as much as the air he needed to live.

There is nothing I love more in a romance that a strong, self made, caring heroine who is comfortable in her own skin and that describes Sarah perfectly. She is smart and compassionate and it is easy to see her career of working with adults with Down syndrome is extremely important to her. While she is happy that her friends have found wonderful men and she is a bit jealous that at 30 she hasn’t managed to find the right guy, she is determined to find him.

I loved the fact that Sarah and Ian reconnect right at their birthdays and that they both recall the pact they made in college. While I was concerned that Sarah wasn’t thinking rationally about Ian’s reasons they should marry, I also felt that deep down Ian wanted more he just wouldn’t allow himself to admit it. It was fun watching them remember their past together, enjoying learning each other as the adults they’ve become and moving from “just friends” to lovers. Ms. Fenske never disappoints in the sexy times and The Last is smoking hot in that department. While the plot had a lot of different threads woven throughout, none of those threads detracted from the romance between Sarah and Ian.

I laughed, I cried, I got a bit hot and bothered, and I’m sure I giggle-snorted a time or two all of which made The Last a completely entertaining and wonderful romance.

An emotionally frozen man shows up on his college besties door on her 30th birthday to complete a marriage pact they made years ago.

While they decide to have a business marriage their chemistry is off the charts. The sexy times burns the pages! And you know it will turn to love.

This was a quick fun read and makes me want to read the others in the series.