Mine To Honor
By: Natasha Madison
Series: Southern Weddings
Book # in Series: 7 of 8
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Trope: Fake Marriage, Best Friends To Lovers, Small Town, Forced Proximity
Publisher: Self Published
Publication Date: November 3rd, 2023
My Rating: ✮✮✮
My Reading Format: Kindle eBook (Advanced Copy Received To Review Honestly)
Synopsis:
When your best friend asks you for the biggest favor of her life.
EVA
Things were finally looking up for me.
I was my own boss; I owned my own house—
and I recently was contacted by an older sister I didn’t know I had.
Everything was perfect…until tragedy struck.
All the things that had come into my life were suddenly gone—except for one thing: my niece.
LEVI
I was a confirmed bachelor.
I was married to my work and committed to nothing more.
No woman was going to change that.
Eva is my best friend and needed a life-changing favor:
Marry her so she could gain custody of her niece.
A marriage of convenience that would only last a year, tops.
But there were stipulations we hadn’t planned on.
Things got blurry—lines got crossed.
I would honor my commitment…I just hope I can walk away.
Mine To Honor is the seventh book in Natasha Madison’s Southern Weddings Series. This book can be read as a standalone. If you love the Best Friends to Lovers Trope, you are going to like this one. Even though I gave this one a three star rating, I can say that with an honest heart. You’ll like this one if you like Best Friends to Lovers romance novels.So let’s get into what this novel is about.
Levi and Eva have been best friends since their first meeting. They are each other’s ride or die. When one needs help, the other is there. But this time, Eva’s request has the potential to be a make it or break it for their friendship.
You see, Eva just received tragic news of her sister’s passing leaving Eva the sole guardian of a baby girl. So with the advice from her lawyer friend, Eva needs this new guardianship to be ironclad, and the only way to see to that is if she were married.
When Eva brings this news to Levi, he is reluctant to give in. He planned to be a bachelor for his life. But seeing the fear about losing this baby girl to the system on Eva’s face, there is nothing he wouldn’t do to help her out and erase that look on her face. So he gives in… and becomes something he never saw himself becoming… a husband.
My Thoughts:
Natasha Madison’s Southern Wedding Series has been one of my favorite series to release this year. Every book is a new level of anticipation. I find myself wanting more and more from these characters and more happily ever after in return. And let me throw it out there, the happily ever after are just as epic as I expect them to be.
Eva is as independent as they come. She’s lived her life with dreams and accomplishments. The only man in her life is her best friend Levi, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. I loved Eva and Levi’s friendship. The fact that they could talk about anything and everything under the sun, no matter how embarrassing the subject may be, had me connecting with their friendship. I loved how they were there for one another throughout everything, that was the thing that kept me invested the most.
Now let’s talk about Levi, shall we. Levi has perfected the bachelor lifestyle. A new girl whenever the feeling arises, the perfect bachelor pad, and a wing woman on his side. But deep down, he’s getting tired of the detachments and the single life. He’s getting tired of constantly traveling and being gone from his home. I loved the fact that fate intervened in Levi’s life. He was sick of being gone and traveling, and then Eva comes up with this crazy plan of getting married for a year. I loved Levi’s reaction and his resistance at first. It gave the situation a tad bit of reality.
The reasoning behind why I rated this novel a three star rating is a little lost on me. I loved Levi and Eva. I loved their friendship and the closeness the two shared. I loved the fact that they were each other’s ride or die. The friendship was on point for me. But the merger… you know, the moment the two start to become more than friends… felt a little bit forced for me, and then the moment after, I completely lost track of the relationship between these two. Like I said, it’s a bit lost on me. I wanted more chemistry between these two in those merging moments.
I loved the way Levi was with baby Cici… I would have loved to see more first for this little baby girl but she felt like a little accessory to the story. My mind is a jumbled mess, I wanted to love this one with all my heart. But, sadly, I wasn’t feeling the copious amounts of love I had originally anticipated and that is another reason I rated this one a 3 star rating. Which only proves my point more. It’s rare to love EVERY book in a series of standalones
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Peace Love and Happy Reading,
