Review: The Two of Us, Kennedy Fox
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!
REVIEW
The Two of Us is a book that depicts our current situation so beware of that, specially if you have anxiety over what is happening. Having that said this is book is on the lighter side. Eli and Cami are bound to give you a good time with their banter, teasing and games. They make the best of isolation and work on getting to know each other for real and having fun with whatever they can.
They both have work - Eli works in real estate and Cami is finishing her degree. I could really relate to her struggles with working from home and not getting to finish her degree in person or walking the stage on graduation. It's my last year too, and I unlike her am already on my masters, and it's sad that this will be my goodbye. So it was nice to see my feelings reflected on the pages.
Working doesn't stop them from having fun or trying new things though. Cami learns how to cook and just be more independent by doing things herself instead of having them do it for her. Honestly, I loved seeing Cami's growth. I feel like in those months she really evolved and showed how capable, strong and real she really is. I love how Eli made fun of her and that sort of became fuel for her to do better and want to do things herself. And deep down he always rooted for her and helped her. It was totally adorable.
I loved how fun and entertaining they could be with their little games of drinking, seducing and annoying each other! I loved how they both had pets which were first seen as the 'enemy' and by the end they were as much as in love with them as each other. And I really loved the relationship they both had with Ryan, Cami's brother and Eli's bestfriend. I swear these ladies write the best male side characters. They always have swooning over them as much as our hero. I couldn't be happier that Ryan is getting is own book next!
But these two are real and like any real couple, they have their struggles and insecurities and are f*cked by life. They take care of each other and are able to see how much they truly care for one another. They fight through insecurities, distance, sickness and a surprise visit that ends in a shocking unexpected way. That part of the story came out of nowhere and had my jaw dropping but it also gave them the chance to really realise their feelings and gave them the courage to share them. So yes most of the book is light hearted and fun but there are some emotional scenes too. Now the sexual tension was real and so fun for them to explore. Eli wanted to take things slow and Cami fought him on it and it's just so entertaining and fun to see them try to break each other down... it was my favorite part of the book ahah.
Love in Isolation is bound to be an epic, unique series. I am already so excited for the second book - a snowed in situation is so dreamy aha. If you love witty banter, characters confined in closed quarters, a brother's bff to lover romance with that love to get on each other's nerves vibe, then you'll love The Two of Us!
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo ofromance 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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