What do you do when the entire nation is on lockdown
If you’re an heiress to a billion-dollar fashion company, then you quarantine in a glamorous cabin and finish your final semester of NYU online. The best way to focus on her upcoming valedictorian honor is away from her family, classmates, and the paparazzi. Cameron St. James is ready to get out of the big city and head Upstate for seclusion, despite her parents’ pleas to stay home.
What do you do when a pandemic is sweeping the world?
If you’re barely making ends meet, then you isolate yourself in your best friend’s mountain cabin with breathtaking views and no neighbors for miles. It’s the perfect safe place away from three roommates who don’t take the life-threatening epidemic seriously. Elijah Ross is ready to work remotely and focus on his next big promotion, assuming he’ll still have a job after this.
What happens when things don’t go as planned, and you’re stuck with the one person you dislike the most?
You improvise and do whatever it takes to avoid each other, though it proves to be impossible. The cold evenings alone turn into movie and popcorn nights together by the fireplace. Days turn into weeks, and eventually, more than just a friendship blossoms. As the unknown haunts them, they lean on one another for comfort—until someone pops their safety bubble and threatens everything.
The Two of Us is an enemies to lovers, brother’s best friend standalone romance set in the current affairs of history in the making. Though the character’s storyline is fiction, the circumstances are very real, and we’re sensitive to this topic. This is a story about hope, love, and so much more with a guaranteed happily ever after!
I took a chance on this book for two reason.
I’ve been wanting to dive into a Kennedy Fox book for a while, and figured that diving in at the start of a new series was the perfect way to go.
I was intrigued by the fact that they were setting the story/world during this pandemic and wanted to see it through their/their characters eyes.
And I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed Cameron and Elijah’s journey. It was the perfect mix of heart, humor and angst with a nice little surprise tossed in that even I didn’t see coming, but did fit well into the story overall, and definitely left me wanting more when everything was said and done.
I loved Cameron and Elijah. Cameron is sweet, sassy and driven. She isn’t afraid to go all in when she decides she wants something and she owns everything she is. Elijah is a good man. He’s sweet, snarky, quick witted and charming.
Their enemies/frenemies to lovers journey to their HEA was a lot of fun to experience. I personally liked the fact that the angsty-ness was on the low end. Yes, they picked at each other, but they never crossed the line into being mean and because they were on ‘lockdown’ together, it pushed them to confront the attraction that had been simmering between them for years. And though there wasn’t a huge roadblock in their journey, they did weather a few storms together and how each event only brought them closer together.
This was a fun read, and has me kicking my own arse for not diving in to these authors books before, but at least I finally started right? Right. The writing was engaging, pacing good and I liked the dual first person POV’s. As is stated in the synopsis, the Pandemic plays a part in this story and I liked how they handled it throughout the story. As for the supporting cast of characters, I loved Chanel and Bruno, as well as Ryan, Kendall and Ava and am definitely looking forward to seeing what the next two books in the series brings us!
~ Copy provided by WFMS & voluntarily reviewed ~
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of
romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They
share a love of Hallmark movies & overpriced coffee. When they aren’t
bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One
day, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating
new characters that’ll make you blush and your heart melt. If you enjoy romance
stories with sexy, tattooed alpha males and smart, quirky, independent women,
then a Kennedy Fox book is for you! They’re looking forward to bringing you
many more stories to fall in love with!
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