This Could Be Us review

 Book: This Could Be Us

Author: Kennedy Ryan

Pages: 416

Date(s) Read: February 1^st, 2025 to March 1^st, 2025

Date Published: March 5^th, 2024

Rating: 5/5

Genre:  Romance

Characters: 5/5

Writing style: 5/5

Story: 5/5

Ending:  5/5

Cover: 5/5

Format: Soft Cover

Date Bought: December 12^th, 2024.

Book Cost: 11.99

Favorite Quotes:

“She loves an underserving man. It’s a sorrow most women experience at some point in their lives, whether it’s a father who neglects or a son who forgets or a husband who betrays”.

“I am the love of my life. I have learned to love myself without judgment or condition”.

Review:

This Could Be Us is a magnificent, poignant, and intense story about the deep-seated love we should have, not for others, but for ourselves. It's a story about the impassioned and ardent love of the self. This novel is life-affirming, uplifting, and inspirational.

 

In this scintillating and sanguine work of fiction, we see Soledad Charles go from the life of a glamorous housewife to the life of a struggling single parent provider just trying to keep a roof over her head after her husband not only cheats on her but is jailed for embezzling money from his employer. During Soledad's sojourn of self-discovery, she has to tackle finding a way to survive and ultimately thrive on her own as the divorcee of an ex-con.  While confronting the devastation her ex-husband has left her with, she falls in love with Judah Cross, the man who put her husband in jail.

 

Soledad is a woman of incredible inner strength, compassion, and fortitude who is surrounded by friends and family that cherish and invigorate her. Relationships with the women in her lives are aspirational and inspirational. Frequently books geared towards women, especially romance, feature toxic love interests and harmful relationships. You won't find any of that negativity in this refreshing narrative.

 

I loved everything about this book from its cover to the last page. The book is a fast-paced page turner that even those who aren't into romance will love. It's the most inspirational and empowering work of fiction I've come across.  I can't recommend this novel enough; every woman should have a copy of This Could Be Us on her shelves.