This Could Be Us (Skyland, 2)

I think I loved Soledad’s story even more than Yasmeen’s. This was a great read. I loved the journey of Soledad rebuilding herself and learning to love herself, recognizing her strength, her capabilities, her worth, what she deserved and going for it all!!!! Great read.

Soledad was an inspiration to women who have been married for a long time and start to lose sight of who they were and are. I really enjoyed this book and the fact that being 40 doesn't mean you still cant rekindle your marriage or love life.

Romantic comedy. This dealt with black woman finding love. It also dealt with family life and her struggles in relationships.

Loved the second book in this series. It is so refreshing to see this kind of love depicted in a story. I always feel like reading Kennedy Ryan is a look inside someone's personal story. Her books always feel so initimate and so real. Will continue reading books from this author.

“A woman who wants more and realizes she deserves it is a dangerous thing…There are so many ways to break a woman’s heart. Her children. Her lover. Her body when it betrays her. Life is clever that way, devising plans for our demise from the moment we’re born. Death by a million heartbreaks, a thousand regrets, a hundred goodbyes.” “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly…When we have hard times, huge changes that seem to be the end of the world as we know it, it’s actually an incubator for metamorphosis…When you hurt the way we women sometimes have to, when you lose so much, when the world ends over and over and over again, we are no longer butterflies. Those wings are much too fragile to carry us on and through. I’m a hornet. I can love. And I can sting.” “All loves aren’t created equal. Some spring from the earth and wrap around and twine through our souls like vines. Some are plants that start with tiny seeds in your heart and blossom over time, nurtured by years and commitment…I used to think of that great passion as a vine that wraps around your soul, makes you feel wild and abandoned and almost out of control.” In contrast to commitment, “a seed that grows slowly within. Something you nurture over time that makes you feel safe and secure.” “With you I’ve found both. You make me forget the world when you kiss me, and it’s reckless and out of control, and yet there is no safer place. No one I trust more. You’re a harbor, not just for me, but…for anyone you love and who needs you. You are the seed and you are the vine, and I love you.” “I don’t say the words aloud, but leave them a conversation with my heart—the sentiment an heirloom…passed down to me, like so many other secrets pressed between pages.” A woman “was indeed a hornet, not a butterfly…the plain of her heart stretched vast enough to love two men so completely, love her children so purely, love her mother and her friends and the world around her with such quiet fervor…because first she loved herself.”