I really enjoyed this book so much. The dialogue and characters were brilliantly written and the first meeting had me smiling. It was really entertaining and kept me hooked all the way through. I didn’t realise it was the third book in the series but it was easy to read as a stand-alone.
Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for giving me access to an early copy.

This is the last book of the Last Man Standing series that centers around three cousins, Dixon, Griff and Nash Beckett. The cousin’s beloved grandmother recently died leaving one unopened gift with no tag. The cousins devise a bet to see who will get to claim the gift. All of them will join Bramble, a dating website where you commit to six dates with the first woman to answer the ad, and the last single man standing wins the gift. Of course, the other cousins get to plan the dates, so all’s fair in love and war. Both Dixon and Griff have found their true loves, so now it is Nash’s turn. Nash is the oldest of his three siblings, and because of his parents’ flakiness, he had to take charge. This take charge attitude manifests itself in Mansplaining. Nash thinks he is a shoo-in to win, when his mother introduces him to a friend who needs a favor. Michelle, Chelle, Finch. Chelle needs to be married in order to satisfy her father’s will and to be able to continue to run the family charity. Nash and Chelle agree to a fake marriage that will ensue that they both get what they want. But as anyone that reads fake relationship romance’s, it does stay fake for long. This is a delightful older, full figured woman, younger man romance. I am bummed that this is the end of the series and hope the author turns to the younger cousins for a future series. I received an arc of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.

✅️ Marriage of convenience
✅️ Forced proximity
✅️ Duel POV
✅️ Rom-Com

Chelle is a plus sized woman in her early forties that is looking for a husband to fulfill her father's will, in order to continue running her foundation. Nash is 8 years younger & helping to run his family's company but is willing to marry Chelle to win a bet.

Their meet-cute was so disasterous but funny! Groucho Barks & Mary Puppins 😂🐕🐶

I enjoyed this book so much! It was witty and entertaining and kept me turning the pages into the early morning. 😅😵‍💫 I had to know what happened!

Poor Nash always thought he was helping but didn't realize that he oversteps instead. Chelle helps point this out to him and it is really sweet to feel their attraction blossom. 🥰😍

This was the first book from the Last Man Standing series that I've read but I will be going back to read the first 2! ❤

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this eARC!

Thank you to NetGalley, Grey's Promotions, and Entangled Publishing for an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.

Why does this series have to be done now?! I adored this series so so much, and this book was no exception. I got my copy on Friday, started late Friday, and was finished slightly after midnight on Saturday (so technically Sunday). Less than 24 hours and that was with me trying to take as much time as possible. Avery is an amazing writer and I just devour every book I read by her.

This book follows Nash, the final Beckett in the Last Man Standing bet, the one who proposed the bet, and the one who thinks that he will win no matter what. Also the biggest mansplainer everyone knows (meaning he cannot help but tell people things that they just do not want to know because he thinks he knows better than they do - regardless if he is right). His counterpart in this book is Chelle Finch, an older woman (!!!) in charge of a non-profit (!!!) and is not a twig (!!!), who needs to get married in order to save her position due to a condition in her fathers will that is incredibly backwards & sexist. Which means we have a marriage of convenience, and therefore Nash thinks he is safe from falling in love. Cue the laughter from the reader because Chelle is AMAZING. I mean her cat is named Sir Hiss and her pugs are Groucho Barks & Mary Puppins - I fell in love with her immediately.

This book explains Nash's mainsplaining (meaning where the roots of it come from), discusses Chelle's insecurities, has the other Becketts reemerge (are those the honks of an attack duck I hear?), and end on such a happy note. I was so pleased with how this book ended the series, even though they technically can all be read as standalones, it was nice reading them in "order" with this one being the last. Though I must say, there was a bit of a teaser of a potential continuation series about some other Becketts? If there is any chance of that, this is my formal petition for that to be the case, please and thank you.

I needed this book when it came to me - it brought me laughs and warmed my heart. It was a great escape for a few hours and I want to enjoy the series all over again. 5/5

Marriage of convenience.
Big, noisy, loving family on one side.
Horrible misogynistic family on the other side.

Chelle and Nash both need to get married (temporarily) for vastly different reasons. Although I don’t see those reasons happening in real life, it makes for a great story as we watch them try not to fall in love. I also liked the secondary characters, such as Karmel and the whole Beckett family.

This is the 3rd book in this series, but the first I’ve read. It was completely fine that I didn’t have the backstory from the previous books, although I might go back and read the other two now.

Nash has been something of a mystery in this series, and I was glad to find out what makes him tick. It turns out that he has very good reasons for being the way he is; he just needs to learn to dial back the advice a little. He is actually a big teddy bear, and I just wanted to give the man a hug. Nash never tries to tear Kiera down, listens to what she says, and knows how to apologize when he advises too much. That means that his mansplaining is funny to read and never crosses into truly obnoxious.
I was also curious what kind of woman would tempt Nash to give up winning the bet. Chelle was just perfect for him. She has her life together, is perfectly happy being single, and is pretty self-aware. The only reason she gives Nash the time of day is that her overbearing uncle is trying to take her role in her family's charity away, which would result in many people losing the help they need. Marrying Nash for a few weeks doesn't seem like a big deal in comparison, but he turns out to be so likable and respectful.
I loved their banter together, and they had serious chemistry. I have no idea how they held out on the physical as long as they did. They make a lovely couple, and I look forward to reading this again for the laughs and the heat.
Also, we finally get to find out what was in the present from Grandma Betty! The payoff was definitely worth it. And it appears that the younger three cousins might get books. I am here for it!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I enjoyed reading the other books in this series, and it was nice to finally find out what Grandma Betty had left them. Having said that, Nash was the hardest to like out of the cousins. It made the banter difficult to enjoy at times. Chelle was pretty cool and independent, and the plot was straight forward. It was probably just me more than anything else. Luckily they had good chemistry together.

I received an advanced reader's copy of Mansplainer by Avery Flynn from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Overall, I felt this was a solid romance novel and I found it to be well written. The plot was engaging and the pacing moved swiftly. I appreciated how nicely crafted the main characters were, and laughed at the antics of the secondary characters.

This novel was a bit predictable, but was a quick, fun read.

I have read the other books in the series, and it has been fun watching this group of cousins lose the bet one by one. That being said, this book was my least favorite. Something about Nash rubbed me the wrong way. I liked Chelle a lot, I liked that she was older and not a size 2, so I felt that the representation was there. But Nash's mansplaining grated on my nerves. I was happy to see him progress through the story to mansplain less though. I also liked watching Nash and Chelle fall in love, even though they met and married under pretenses to help each other - him win the bet and she keep her foundation. Chelle's uncle was especially vile. Most excitedly, it was fun to learn what the final gift from their Grandma was, I thought it was so sweet. And I liked that it alluded to more books for the trio's siblings.

4 stars because I liked it. The story was original, the tropes were Marriage for convinience and forced proximity and were well written. I only found some things I didn’t quite understand but everything else was very good.

You can find my full review in the link below.

Thank you Net galley and Entangled Publishing for this ARC.

Impossible situations, unique characters and twists that leave you with your jaw hanging all the while falling in love and while the secondary characters are catching you little by little, that's what this book is
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I had forgotten how fun it was to read an Avery Flynn book, the unique situations, her characters that are just so great
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Mansplainer is the last book in the series The last man standing, where the three older cousins ​​of the Beckett family make a bet to win the last mysterious gift from their grandmother, for this they must spend six dates with the woman who answers their ad and do not fall in love
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One by one the cousins ​​fall in love until only Nash remains. The eldest and who always likes to suggest and give unusual advice to anyone in front of him
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When her mother meets Chelle Finn who is desperate for a solution to save the family foundation, she recommends talking to Nash who always has a solution for everything
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Chelle Finn has spent years escaping family pressures and the path that her family set for her, so when Nash suggests that they get married to win the bet and get around their problems, Chelle takes a moment to consider it. After all, with an age difference between the two and her prominent curves, she thinks it's impossible for feelings to arise between them. Just that getting to know the person you married can change everything
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Deliciously armed, from the puppies, the meddling family to the scenes where both characters left their comfort zone, this is a romcom to not stop smiling and falling in love with both characters
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Thanks to Avery Flynn and Entangled Publishing LLC for give me this beautiful book in exchange for my honest opinion

This is, in a nutshell, a story about unconditional love. Nash Beckett and two of his cousins have had this bet going through the two prior books in this series. The ‘last man standing’ at Christmas, i.e., the one who hasn’t fallen in love, gets to open the final physical wrapped gift that they will ever receive from their beloved grandmother. None of the Beckett cousins had stellar parents, so the stability and love that they received from their grandmother was the priceless gift that made each of them into who they are now. Regardless, Nash wants to win, and he figures that the best way for that to happen is for him to marry a near-stranger, so there won’t be any pesky feelings involved. Chelle Finch is that near-stranger, and she happens to be in a tenuous situation with her job. Apparently, her extremely archaic and primitive-minded uncle wants to dismantle her job (she runs a charity which helps needy people), and take the money for himself, because he works hard, and poor people ‘obviously’ don’t—or they wouldn’t be poor… Yes, he is that ignorant! If she gets married (the only worthwhile thing a woman is good for, according to her uncle and her deceased dad!), her husband can ‘let’ her work at her job occasionally. Otherwise, the money goes to the uncle, who is now the head of the family. Nash and Chelle decide to help each other out, and decide to get married for about a month, and then file for divorce.

Nash is eight years younger than Chelle; he’s wealthy and extremely fit and good looking. Chelle is older and beautiful and slightly plus sized, and was raised around wealth, but is now living much simpler. Their relationship seems incongruous on the surface, but it works. It works because Nash sees Chelle for who she is and accepts her as such, and Chelle sees through the façade that Nash presents to the world and treats him in a way that he didn’t know he needed. The beauty of unconditional love is that it frees you to be your best self. Both of these protagonists find a measure of that freedom and become better people because of it. There is one part toward the end, where Chelle and Nash stage a fight in front of her uncle. It is unclear to this reader why they did so, as it seems counter-productive on the surface. Once I figure this out, I may raise the rating; Until then, I have deducted a star, because others may have the same questions about this scene. Otherwise, this is an entertaining story with several really cute scenes in it. The peripheral characters and pets add to the enjoyment of the reader as well.

Nash Beckett thinks he’s found a loophole to help keep him remain the “last man standing” in order to win the bet against his cousins. He still needs to go on six dates with the same woman but there’s nothing in the rules that says she can’t be his wife. Chelle Finch needs a fake husband so she can keep her family’s charity operating and out of the hands of her scheming uncle. Nash and Chelle agree upon a temporary marriage that will benefit them both.

Mansplainer is the third and final book in the Last Man Standing series. While it could be read as a stand-alone, it loses some context without some of the background information and character development from the other books in the series. (Mama’s Boy and Neanderthal are both fun and well worth reading if you have not already.) Although these books are spicy, they really do have enjoyable storylines aside from that. The plots don't hinge on the spicy scenes to make them interesting.

Mansplainer is a marriage of convenience romance. The FMC is older than the MMC which always makes for a unique dynamic. The way the main characters meet and and are sort of thrown together is unusual but they have a certain spark from the very beginning. The bond between the Beckett cousins is so nice to read, that in spite of uninterested or difficult parental situations, they all have each other. It’s kind of like a found family, even though they are already family, and the cousins are welcoming and inclusive to each other's significant others.

The author did a great job wrapping up the series. I really was surprised with the unveiling of the “mystery gift”. I made a few guesses throughout reading the series and I was not even close.

I’ve read and listened to numerous books by author Avery Flynn and will continue to do so in the future.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing, LLC!

This book had me in knots. It's the third stand-alone and conclusion in the Last Man Standingseries by A. Flynn, published by Entangled Publishing LLC.
Just for recollection, Griff, Dixon and Nash are cousins who want to win a bet. The rules are the last man not in love at christmas wins the prize. SGriff and Dixon already found their hea in the previous books and Nash has to not fall in love, easy peasy, right?
Chelle is a good woman, a writer, pet lover, dedicated to her work at a foundation. But that's about to change when her father's will is read. She needs a husband.
So why not a marriage of convenience for both of them. Perfect and both are in. Only karma has a way to laugh at the last.
This rom/com is right up my alley, witty and fun, hilarious gives me the story chuckle after chuckle, made me swoon, made me read it in one sitting. A fantastic read.

3.5 Stars— I didn’t love this book as much as the other two, but it’s still a solid book. While Nash becomes a reformed, or continually trying to reform, Mansplanner, he still isn’t the best cousin. I think that’s where this book suffers because while I like this book, I still don’t like Nash. I understand him more, but he’s still kind of unbearable.

Chelle is great. I love her outlook on life and I love how her and Nash fall in love. What I didn’t like was that it felt like every, or every other, cheater was a reminder that Chelle is in her 40s. I’m open to reverse age gaps, but the only thoughts Chelle had in her inner monologue were about being 40 and it was tiring. She has so much going on in her life, but the only thing she can think about is being 40? It made her character weaker for it— and she’s not weak.

What I did love was Grandma Betty’s final present I laughed out loud as soon as I read what it was and it was 1,000% worth the wait. And the winning of that was just as hilarious. The ending was perfection and I enjoyed this read.

I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A nice wrap-up to the series, although I didn't quite enjoy this one as much as the other two. Be prepared for some serious mansplaining... I got ridiculous secondhand discomfort from it-- I didn't remember Nash being that bad in the other two books. Chelle is delightful and handles Nash surprisingly well after having broken away from her very traditional family. I'm a little sad that it's ending and am hoping to see the 3 younger Becketts get their own stories.

Thank you to Netgalley and Entangled Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my thoughts.

Mansplainer is a lighthearted story about a marriage of convenience that turns into the real thing. It's written with a great sense of humor and Avery Flynn is fantastic at dialogues that ring true. The "mansplaining" is spot on. I appreciate that Chelle is a woman in her forties, but she doesn't feel that age. Part of it is the premise of the story with the evil mysoginistic uncle that's able to manipulate her into a getting married to receive her inheritance, but other details as well, like the cutest names she chooses for her pets. Even with that, this novel is a fun read with a lot of originality.

Thanks to Netgalley, Entangled Publishing and the author for an ARC of this book. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I am a big fan of this author's work - if you like an unconventional-looking heroine and heroes who fall instantly in love with them, check out Butterface or Muffin Top, or this book.

There's plenty of humour in this book, Nash knows best in every circumstance, and if it wasn't for his beautiful heart, he would be most annoying. I love the way Chelle is able to get past her demons and see the real Nash, and I love that he is obsessed with her immediately, even though she's curvier than a model and past 40 years old.

This was a really fun, refreshing read.

This is the third book in the series but can easily be read as a stand-alone. There is a bet among the Beckett cousins to see who is the last man not in love. Of course he falls in love despite everything. :) It's a fun story. Full of humor, witty banter, flirty dialogues and moves... :) Both main characters are terrific and are wonderful together. I especially like that the heroine isn't your typical ingenue who just happens to have the looks of a beauty queen but doesn't realize it.....etc.etc. She is older and normal sized. Really enjoyed it.

Thanks to the publisher for the arc.

I throughly enjoyed the antics of the Beckett cousins in this book in the series. This fake marriage story was fun and entertaining. Chelle was the perfect match for the mansplaning Nash Beckett. She certainly turned him around. I love a story about a plus sized girl getting the guy. Most romance focuses on tiny girls who wear thongs. I admire Chelle with her no nonsense attitude toward carbs. She seemed more real to me. I could really connect with her character.