From the first time they locked eyes, Lila Morrow and Luke Bowman had a special spark. Their first kiss sealed their fairy-tale romance… until everything fell apart.Luke’s life began when he met Lila—and in many ways, it ended when she left him. Drowning in regrets, Luke is determined to give Lila the space to be happy. The sexy, singing roofer quickly realizes, however, he really shouldn’t have … however, he really shouldn’t have let her go.
After their breakup, Lila moves back in with her family. The twenty-nine-year-old veterinarian’s transition to a life without Luke isn’t as easy as she expected. With the help of her wild Grandma Claire and her high-heel-loving sister, Maren, she starts to play the field… but she isn’t sure she’ll ever stop loving the curly-haired man from her early twenties.
Luke and Lila’s love story ended, and their individual boxes have been packed. But as they explore the single life and the dating world, both discover sometimes the love you leave behind is exactly what you need to be happy.
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I very much enjoyed this book. I loved that it wasn’t a book about meeting your soulmate, or the finding of love, but focused on how love falls apart and what to do to bring it back.
Luke and Lila met three years ago. They fall quickly, and while they’re very different than each other, they feel like they have met their other half. But the differences and wanting different things in life are what ultimately have them breaking up.
This story is told in the present day, while revealing bits of Luke and Lila’s past through flashbacks. Lindsay Detwiler did a wonderful job of bringing these characters to life. I think the only thing I would have liked to have seen was a bit more in the future. But nonetheless, this was a wonderful story of the healing power of love.
Still Us was an interesting read.
It tells the story of two lost soul mates and the journey that will take them to happiness.
Luke and Lila took the hardest decision of their lives leaving their love nest and their relationship behind starting to live without the other.
Even living apart they still think to each other and their love story but their longing will be enough to overcome their differences and to change their minds going back to each other??
I have once again appreciated Lindsay Detwiler writing and all the characters especially the exuberant grandma.
My Rating:
4.5
Favorite Quotes:
Maren and Will are making out in the corner like he’s just come back from war, and I quickly avert my eyes so I don’t see something I won’t be able to unsee. Maren’s bold, but I didn’t think an accountant would be so shameless at a family gathering. I guess Maren really does bring out a different side of him, as he claimed during their crazy romantic proposal last December.
“Oh, Harvey, you know I like to get a look at the delivery boy. How am I going to rate him on my scale when you didn’t let me answer the door?” Grandma whines. “I even put on my red lips, my good Avon lipstick, because I knew he would be coming. What a waste.”
I sit beside my mom and dad in the church basement, enjoying the weekly breakfast after mass. It’s been years since I’ve been here. Usually Luke and I spent Sunday mornings saying God in a very, very different way.
That religious program I like is coming on in ten minutes. Figure it wouldn’t hurt to get some extra heaven points today after the lewd thoughts I was having about the preacher at Maren’s wedding.
I laugh hysterically as the strippers parade down the aisle, their hips very loose—especially for their age. “I got them for a discount on the internet,” Grandma yells, clapping wildly as the bus driver just sits in horror. I laugh as Maren screams as the lead stripper props his leg on the seat in front of her, gyrating his hips wildly despite the fact he must be at least eighty. “No fair, I paid good money. Come this way, boys,” Grandma yells.
My Review:
The story began with the two main characters of Luke and Lila packing up and leaving their shared apartment after dissolved their relationship. They had drawn a line in the sand that each hoped the other would erase. Their game of chicken went too long and too far as neither would flinch or admit their rueful mistake or repentant their stance. The soulmates parted and avoided each other like a zombie-inducing plague, although each remained miserable and unable to disengage or fully move on. While the tone of the dual POV narrative was often angsty, the story was well balanced with humor and engaging observations, insights, and memories. I enjoyed the tale and adored all the character depictions in this book, each one was uniquely quirky and amusing. Grandma’s appearance was a guaranteed smirk sparkler to any scene. The premise was original, well-crafted, and relevant to the world we live in. Ms. Detwiler’s entertaining writing style and storylines are easy to follow, relatable, pleasantly appealing, and always include an enticing food element that pervasively tunnels through my cranium and wrecks my diet. Sigh, first she introduced me to Swedish Fish and now I feel compelled to run a Google search for local bakeries that provide peanut-butter glazed doughnuts. I am ruined.
Still Us is a realistic love story of Luke & Lila. With many ups and downs, this book definitely keeps your interest. All of the different family members are quite entertaining. Love the hilarious Grandma character. If you’re an animal lover, this is a great book for you. This author has a unique writing style. Love all of her books.
I wasn’t sure what to think about this book. It’s unlike any other romance I’ve ever read before. It begins with the end of a relationship between the Hero and Heroine. The book is about them moving on with their lives…apart. And that’s just the beginning! But, I kept an open mind, and kept on reading.
Luke and Lila were happy together…..until they weren’t. They decided they weren’t good together, that they wanted different things from life, and split up. They each went their separate ways and tried to get on with their lives. But that was easier said than done.
This book took everything that I expected from a romance and blew it out of the water. This book had none of the usual elements of a romance, but still managed to come out with a HEA. Right from the beginning, even when they were in the process of separating their lives from one another, I could tell they belonged together. There were so many emotions that went through me while reading this book, that it took a while to sort through them all: frustration, hurt, and finally, joy. Both Luke and Lila had many issues that they had to work through to be able to be together, but this book just drives home the point, true love conquers all, but only if you work at it!