Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Healing the Twin

SERIES: Forestville Silver Foxes (Book 3)

AUTHOR: Nora Phoenix

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 287 pages

RELEASE DATE: December 29, 2023

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Everyone thinks they know me. Hell, I don’t even know who I am anymore.

We were at the top. Tomás and Tiago Banner, the most famous twins in the world. The sexiest men alive. My whole identity was rooted in being the older brother, in taking care of my twin, in being a model.

Until Tiago fell in love and left me on my own. Now I’m lost, drifting without an anchor. Hurting.

To remain close to my twin, I stay in Forestville, the small town we grew up in. I’ve got friends here, old ones and new. Like Fir, the adorable redhead who had a crush on me in high school. We reconnect, and I find myself sharing things with Fir I’ve never told anyone else.

When the budding friendship between us becomes more, I’m shocked. Fir is not the type for a fling, and I know nothing else.

Our lives couldn’t be further apart. I’m a celebrity, an eternal bachelor who’s always played the field. Fir is the local doctor, a single dad still grieving his deceased husband. He needs more than I could ever give him.

I have a choice to make. Can I become the man Fir deserves?

I’ve never wanted anything more.

Healing the Twin is the third book in the Forestville Silver Foxes series, a contemporary small-town MM romance series featuring hot silver foxes and the men who fall in love with them. Each book can be read as a standalone.

REVIEW:

I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book every since I finished Tiago’s story. I needed to have Tomás’ side of this tale.

Tomas’s world has been turned upside down. One moment they were the Banner twins, the most famous twins in the world, and on top of the modeling world. The sexiest men alive. Then we come back to our childhood town in Forestville, Washington for our high school reunion and everything changes in a blink of an eye. Tiago meets the man that is his true love, buys Doc Everett’s old house and leaves our world behind. I don’t begrudge Cas and Tiago falling in love and making a life for themselves but what do I do now. My whole life has been watching over and protecting Tiago and us modeling. But now he has Cas to do that. So what do I do now?

I had wondered what had happened to Fir’s husband. I knew he took over his dad’s practice as the town’s doctor and I knew that he was a widower with two teenage boys. Cancer is such a viscous disease and doesn’t care who it takes away. Being a doctor and watching your husband being ripped from your arms and not being able to stop it had to have been devastating. Fir is one of the strongest characters I have read in a long time. And him having the guts to put himself on the line to ask Tomás, his high school crush and one of the world’s top models, for a hookup was true bravery. But the again, picking up the pieces of their lives left and being there for their boys is pretty heroic too since you know, five years later, he’s still crushed by it. I love what a wonderful father he is and so open with his boys.

Although it states that each book can be read as a standalone I disagree. Yes, you will get each separate Silver Foxes story but these books follow along on a timeline that is relevant to the story in its entirety. I now understand more clearly how intricate the twins were to each other. Yes, we knew that Tiago struggled with severe dyslexia. And that Tomas had taken it upon himself to look out for “his other half”. But the twin relationship for Tomás seemed even more a part of his basic makeup. Tiago had depended on Tomás because of his disability but Tomás had made it his life mission, whether he realized it or not, to protect and take care of Tiago. When Tiago met Cas, Tomás’ world as he knew it shattered into a million pieces. He was no longer the one that Tiago not only came to first but depended upon. Thankfully Fir helped Tomás realize that calling upon the help of a trained professional to help him navigate through his thoughts wasn’t weak but a mature and healthy way to move forward. But at 49 years of age life really did a 180 on him.

I was quite disappointed with how the teacher didn’t follow through with her suspicion on Tiago’s severe dyslexia. Through hard work it is overcome-able and my 40 year old son is living proof. He was diagnosed around the time that this teacher suspected it in Tiago. We immediately got him the help he so desperately needed. It included us cutting our family budget to send him to a private school that specialized in dyslexia but he is now a very successful General Manager of his thriving company. I get that she went out on maternity leave but any dedicated teacher would have made sure that the school authorities followed up on her suspicions. You don’t just let a student, that you suspect has a learning disability, continue you to struggle. You help get them help. Trust me, you don’t go into education for the money and you try your hardest to help each and every child reach for their potential. This just guts me that Tiago struggled for so many years and thought less of himself when it was totally preventable.

This has been quite the amazing series. I love that each of these main characters are quickly approaching fifty. It is so rare to find books with sexy middle age men and it makes this series even that much more special. I can’t wait for the next book in the series.

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