Review: Yours Truly

Yours Truly was just the second Abby Jimenez book I've read and I now fully understand why her books have been so beloved for (what seems like) so long! This book, the second in her Part of Your World series, was so lovely and I very much enjoyed reading it.

Here’s the book’s description:

Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother’s running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that’s probably going to the new man-doctor who’s already registering eighty-friggin’-seven on Briana’s “pain in my ass” scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter.
And it’s a really good letter. Like the kind that proves that Jacob isn’t actually Satan. Worse, he might be this fantastically funny and subversively likeable guy who’s terrible at first impressions. Because suddenly he and Bri are exchanging letters, sharing lunch dates in her “sob closet,” and discussing the merits of freakishly tiny horses. But when Jacob decides to give Briana the best gift imaginable—a kidney for her brother—she wonders just how she can resist this quietly sexy new doctor . . . especially when he calls in a favor she can’t refuse.

You don’t really have to read Part of Your World before Yours Truly. I did though and would recommend you do too simply because it was so enjoyable (review here). It’ll help make some of the little references make more sense but you won’t be lost if you start with Yours Truly.

I love that Briana and Jacob wrote each other letters and that’s really how they got to know each other. Their initial meeting was, well, not great but they were smart enough to realize they both had a few preconceived ideas of the other and, through the letters, were able to communicate and start a friendship. It was quite shockingly adult of them! (Not something you always see in romance novels!) I loved watching their friendship turn into something more and was completely and totally behind their romance from the get go.

There’s some good anxiety rep in this one - but know I say this as someone who hasn’t been diagnosed with anxiety. I still know that seeing mental health discussed in romance books is a huge freaking deal and I appreciate Jimenez including it in her novel.

And also - Jacob’s dog being named Lieutenant Dan? COME ON. Too good.

Abby Jimenez has written another romance that will fill you up with all the feels in the best possible way. Yours Truly will make you smile, swoon, and probably sob. But that’s part of the magic of Jimenez’s novels and I hope you discover that magic soon for yourself!

*An egalley of this novel was provided by the publisher, Forever, via NetGalley, in exchange for review consideration. All opinions are honest and my own.*