REVIEW: Love Like Ours by Melissa Foster

Love Like Ours by Melissa Foster: Talia is a straight-laced, buttoned-up, and private person. While she loves her loud and curious family, she also doesn’t want to share to the same extent as her sisters do. Talia loves her job as a professor and is helping her best friend and colleague while he’s recovering from surgery by teaching his classes and walking his adorable dog, Molly.

Derek is a devoted son. He’s structured his life to care for his father and is working to get a business venture together. He doesn’t have a lot of time outside of working at a bar and spending time with his support group, close friends, and his dad. He’s definitely smart, sexy, and charming.

Talia is about at her wits end as her morning gets steadily worse, thanks to her interfering sisters and mom. The only bright spot is a run-in with a gorgeous stranger. Derek and Talia run into each other a few times and he definitely throws her off with his confidence and persistence. She’s cautious, but their chemistry tempts her to be more adventurous.

As she headed for her class, Derek called out to her, “You should call your family.”
“Why should I do that?”
“Tell them you stepped outside your comfort zone, you made a friend’s day, and you’re still alive.”

Talia and Derek are really good for each other. He helps her to break out of her comfort zone and try new things. He also helps her feel more confident in herself. Talia makes him think about life differently and provides another source of needed support.

“I don’t know, Teach. Is this like when adults offer kids candy to take a ride in their van? I’m smart. You’ve got to show me the candy first.”
She grabbed his arm and dragged him toward her car. “Shut up before I change my mind and keep it all for myself.”
“I do like it when you’re bossy and handsy.”

Love Like Ours is an emotional, sexy, fun, and a feel-good romance. Melissa Foster provided a wonderful cast of characters in their friends and families. Ms. Foster developed a sweet romance with banter, heat, and lots of anticipation. Love Like Ours can be read as a standalone in this series. Fans of Jenn McKinley, LuAnn McLane, and Beth Ciotta will enjoy Love Like Ours.
 

Book Info:

Publication: September 11th 2018 | Montlake Romance | Sugar Lake #3

One wrong move, and she meets a guy with all the right ones…

Talia Dalton lives her life on cruise control. Despite her successful career as a professor, she prefers protecting her broken heart to taking chances. She’s calm, cool, collected, and steady. Until the morning she takes her eyes off that familiar road and almost runs over the sexiest man she’s ever seen. It may not be the best way to start the day, but it might be the type of shake-up she needs.

Male dancer Derek Grant has goals, and nothing is going to get in the way of achieving them. As a graduate student and the sole caretaker of his ailing father, he hasn’t much time for relationships. Then Talia crashes into his life. Sweet, pretty—and so buttoned-up that he can’t wait to help her cut loose.

For Derek, falling in love was a beautiful accident waiting to happen. And it might be exactly what Talia needs—if she’s willing to let go of the past and embrace every surprise Derek has to offer.