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Title: The Cul-de-Sac War
Author: Melissa Ferguson
Sub-genre: Contemporary/women’s fiction
Trope(s): Enemies to lovers
Publication Date: November 10, 2020
There are a couple of easy ways to get me to buy into a book immediately, and one of them is to feature theater in any way shape or form, so when this book opened with a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, well, I was all in.
Bree is an ensemble actress living in the house left partially to her when her grandmother passed away. Living in the house is giving Bree the chance to, for the first time, put down roots and establish not only her career, but her living situation. In the past, Bree has flitted from job to job, but in order to retain ownership of the house, she promises her parents to stay in one job for at least a year. But a renovation at the theater where she works threatens to make that impossible. And when she comes home one day to find a sexy new neighbor with a dog who can’t leave her alone, Bree is pushed to the brink. Chip moves into the house next door to Bree with plans to renovate it. Having just split from his family’s construction company to start his own business, Chip is in need of work, fast. Winning the bid for the theater renovation is just the project he needs to put him on the map. But once his dog goes after Bree, Bree fights back, and the two begin a prank war that could end up costing both of them. But it doesn’t obvs, and they live happily ever after.
So as I said, this book had me from the beginning. Yes because of the theater tie in, but also because the voice was super witty and charming from the get. These prank war kind of books seem to be popular right now, and I for one am here for them. I loved seeing how these two were going to torture each other next. I would have liked there to be more kissing (no shock there), and I personally would have liked Bree and Chip to get together sooner, but it was really fun watching their relationship play out and seeing them go from (legit) enemies to lovers. I blew through this book super fast because I just wanted to see what they were going to do next!
Overall Rating: 4.5 stars
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