My latest review for Bethany House publishers is The Two of Us by Victoria Bylin which I received in exchange for my honest review.
My favorite thing about this book is the realistic characters and situations. These people are not perfect. Lucy is set for a shot gun wedding because she's already pregnant, Jake's family struggles with his mom's Alzheimer's, they question their faith...They're situations that regular people face and the story is told in an honest way, not sugar coated with bible passages, but just questioning and seeing the answers to their faith-sometimes in a different way than they expected, which is just like real life.
Mia meets Jake in an unsuspecting way when they both find out they're attending Mia's sister Lucy's wedding. Subplots involve Jake's plans to start a well-intentioned camp for struggling teens that meets furious opposition in town. Mia needs to find out where her life is going, so she applies for a medical mission to Africa. And Lucy and Sam struggle with being very young newlyweds while Sam is in ROTC and Lucy is pregnant.
I had not read anything by Victoria Bylin before, but her work is fantastic and I will look for more. A great read for anyone who likes romances with good stories behind them.
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