Review: Emergency Engagement by Samanthe Beck (Love Emergency #1)


Note: This ARC was provided by Entangled Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Awww! After loving Compromising Her Position, the series starter to Compromise Me, bestselling author Samanthe Beck has given us yet another one with her Love Emergency series starter, Emergency Engagement. This story of two people who actually grew up next to each other as children many years ago and then find themselves as neighbors yet again as adults but have no idea of their personal history with one another was both sweet and saucy. Savannah Smith and Beau Montgomery find themselves engaged after their families assume they're in love and ready to take the next step in their relationship. It would have been easy enough for them to correct that assumption, but Beau asks Savannah to stick with the farce, and his reasons aren't what she expected them to be. Can true love come from a fake engagement?

I really enjoyed Beau and Savannah's story and liked how they already met as babies and toddlers, two families living next to each other, and then meet years later as neighbors once again. The chemistry between them was palpable and it seemed that they were really fated to end up together, with a little bit of pushing and prodding from their families. Beau's past has made him resistant to being in any sort of committed relationship with another woman and refuses to entertain the idea of having a family sometime in the future. The reasons behind his reluctance are heartbreaking and I liked how Savannah handled the knowledge of what he went through. They become very supportive of one another and there's a genuine friendship that exists in the middle of all the falling in love and falling into bed parts of this fun love story.

Aside from the romance, family has a strong presence in the story, and it isn't limited to just one of the main characters. Both the Smith and Montgomery families provide a strong support system for their children, and there's a kinship between them that doesn't seem to have dissipated even after years of virtually no communication. I'm hoping that Savannah's sister, Sinclair, will also get her story told in the series, along with other notable supporting characters: Hunter Knox, Beau's partner and close friend, Dr. Delilah West, the attending physician when Beau is brought into the emergency room, and Ashley (whose last name I don't recall being mentioned), Beau and Hunter's shift supervisor. Love Emergency is shaping up to be a series I'm looking forward to read more of and starter Emergency Engagement gets 4.5 stars. ♥

Date Read: 15 February 2016

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