*An ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review*

Immediately reading the blurb my brain went “Life As We Know It”. It’s one of my favourite rom-coms that’s packed full of romance, enemies to lovers, forced proximity and loss and grief.

I knew if Rachel Van Dyken was taking her spin at a book in the same tropey genre as that movie it would be a masterpiece, and I was not wrong.

Books for me, will forever rein superior to television. Movies and TV has talented actors and scripts that bring stories to life and make you feel, but I truly believe nothing beats words on a paper and your imagination.

Rachel Van Dyken from the first book I devoured of her’s has been a top author for me. I’ll one click her until the end of life as she never stops growing and being amazing at story telling.

Just as I loved Life As We Know It, I loved The Godparent Trap. If anything it may have bumped above it because the way we follow Colby and Rip navigating the loss of their closest aquantices and then tackle taking care of two children was beautifully done.

We get to have laughs, tension and fall into the understanding of how everyone tackles grief and loss differently.

This book was beautiful and fun to read. It’s everything I love from Rachel in a different setting.

Blurb:

Life’s Too Short meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling, steamy, and swoon-worthy novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken, in which two sworn enemies must share house, home—and maybe their hearts—when they become co-parents after a sudden loss.

Colby’s living her best life: as a popular food blogger, she gets to fulfill her dreams of exploring the globe. But her world comes crashing down when a tragic accident leaves her co-guardian of her best friend’s two adorable children. Not only does she need to put down roots—fast—but she’ll be sharing custody with the one man she can’t stand sharing a continent with, let alone a house.

Accountant-extraordinaire Rip values rules and plans. But when he loses his sister and his best friend and becomes an insta-guardian all in one night, Rip sees his organized life imploding. What he really doesn’t need is his sister’s irresponsible, flighty—albeit kind and gorgeous—best friend making it worse.

Rip doesn’t trust Colby to take their new responsibilities seriously, while Colby can’t believe Rip thinks children will thrive under his rigid control. Yet soon Rip and Colby discover they need each other more than they hate each other. Could it be possible that following their hearts is just what their new little family needs?