After two broken engagements, nurse practitioner Mia Robinson is done with dating. From now on, she only trusts herself and God, and she's focused on her eighteen-year-old sister, Lucy, and caring for patients. Just as she applies to work for an international aid organization, a phone call from Lucy, who's pregnant and running off to marry her twenty-one-year-old boyfriend, throws a wrench into all of Mia's plans.
Jake Tanner may have recovered from the physical injuries he sustained on the job as a police officer, but his heart has yet to heal from losing his former partner in the tragedy. He's poured himself into starting a camp for the sons of fallen officers and mentoring Sam, the adult son of his deceased partner, who's asked him to be his best man at his wedding.
Mia is expecting a mess when she arrives to sort out the situation with Lucy, but she wasn't expecting Jake. And Jake, who can't help envying Sam and Lucy, doubts he'll ever experience their happiness for himself. But maybe Jake's courage and Mia's caring spirit are just what they need to bring them a lifetime of healing and a forever kind of love. . . .
Book Review:
It's good to get back into contemporary romance. I've been spending a lot of time in the Regency era lately, and I do enjoy a good contemporary novel. Victoria Bylin is a new author to me. I haven't read anything else she's publish so honestly I was hesitant to start this novel. New to me authors always make me leery just because I don't know what to expect content wise. Coming from Bethany House I knew it was Christian fiction, but that doesn't always guarantee a clean read. But back to the story at hand.
There is a lot going on in this novel. I think my biggest complaint about this book is that a lot of it revolved around Sam and Lucy. Don't get me wrong, you had an interesting story there, but I personally don't like two stories within one story. I want my main characters and I want good supporting characters, but if you are going to do two stories...write another book. To be fair, I will say that Sam and Lucy were need for Mia and Jake to meet and to stay in contact with each other. I get why the author did what she did, but I didn't want a story about Sam and Lucy, I wanted a story about Jake and Mia and every time it switched I felt abruptly pulled my my story into a place that I didn't care about traveling.
The romance between Jake and Mia was sort of already decided. We didn't get to watch the characters fall in love, we got to watch them decide what they were going to do about it. And I'm not sure how I feel about that. I think it was okay. Not typically what I look for when I read, but the emotions and decision were so honest and well written that I didn't feel cheated in the romance department.
Content wise there is premarital sex (not described) which results in a pregnancy. Kissing, lots of talk about being a virgin, talk about sex within marriage, and vandalism.
Title: The Two of Us
Author: Victoria Bylin
Publisher: Bethany House
Published: August 2017
ISBN: 0764217380
Source: I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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