Book Review | The Two Of Us- Kennedy Fox (Love In Isolation Series, Book One)

The Two Of Us
By: Kennedy Fox

Series: Love In Isolation
Book # In Series: 1 of 4
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Trope: Enemies To Lovers
Publisher: Indie
Release Date: May 15th, 2020

Blurb:

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 parent’s 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.

The Two of Us by Kennedy Fox is based on the world we are currently living in. This is a story about love, hope, and fear. This is a story about finding love in isolation.

About The Two Of Us:

Cameron is a posh princess on the outside, but beneath the surface she’s just a girl with a crush on a guy trying to exist in this hard as hell world we live in. Being the daughter of a fashion empire doesn’t help her want to be the woman she was destined to be. No, Cameron has to be perfect, eat the right foods, and live her life by the textbook. All that’s about to end when New York City’s Covid-19 cases are rising. She decides to hightail it to her family’s cabin and hide out until this virus passes.

But she’s not the only one who has that same idea. Enter Elijah, her older brother’s best friend and the bane of her existence. Eli has had enough of his roommates not taking this virus seriously, so he calls his best friend and is told to hid out in his family’s cabin. Little does he know he’s going to be stuck in isolation with the woman he gave his heart too all those years ago.

My Thoughts:

This virus has devastated the world. Some reader’s think it’s too soon to write quarantine books while others simply are loving the new trope. I try to keep an open mind when it comes to novels with a slight air of controversy hovering over them. To be honest, I wasn’t going to request a copy of The Two Of Us solely because I try not to get caught up in drama. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. But given the fact that this novel was written by Kennedy Fox, I had to see what it was all about!

From the first page I was intrigued. We have two total opposites forced to stay in one house together for months on end. Cameron is a posh princess who has never had to fix a damn thing in her life, including meals. She comes from a wealthy family and is used to having things go her way. And then we have Elijah who is a bit lower on the totem pole of wealth. He’s the type of man who works hard for what he earns. So when you put the two of them in the same room, it’s definitely a disaster in the making… or so that’s what we are led to believe. But then the lines drawn are crossed and lifelong feelings are exposed.

Basically what I’m trying to say is, I was a goner for these two from the start. Although sometimes their chemistry was lacking, I still really enjoyed these two and their sexy temptations and moments in quarantine.

What I didn’t like was the rushed feeling and impending doom this novel threw at me. I felt one situation was thrown in the mix just to give this story a little more of a shock value. Trust me when I say, Covid-19 is enough of a shock for us all. That little stint could have and should have been avoided.

The romance and the forbidden vibes between Cameron and Elijah is what kept me invested in this novel. I loved the two of them together! And when you add fur babies into the mix, It made me love the relationship vibes even more.

Overall, I felt this novel was a bit rushed for my liking. I wanted more feelings and more fear from Eli and Cami. I needed just a bit more and that’s why I gave this one a 3.5 star rating.

Note:

It is completely up to you, as a reader, to decide the content you read and what you are ready for. If this virus has affected you personally, my honest opinion would be to skip this novel and pick up something else. Nothing is more important than a reader’s mental health in today’s world. Hang on tight, there is light at the end of this very dark tunnel.

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Peace Love and Happy Reading,