If you want to hear more of my thoughts on the book itself, as well as a more complete overview of the story, check out my original review. So there is a nice balance here as both men figure out what they really want in life and take steps to reach it. He is gay and he can’t pretend to be in love with his best friend and betrothed. He isn’t going to marry a sweet girl and raise babies. The early portion of the book is Phillip coming to realign his expectations, where the later part focuses more on Ben, who has a vision for his life and a slow realization it is never going to work. I love Ben’s little tricks to get the kids to learn without letting on he is actually teaching a lesson.

Ben has a much more free spirited approach to the kids, knowing that they are hurting after their mother’s death and having an absentee father. Instead, he finds Ben, the local vicar, doing his best to wrangle his group of hellions into some sense of normalcy. I once again found myself delighted by the lovely Sound of Music feel to the early stages of the book as the naval captain, Phillip, returns home from years at sea used to order and structure and expecting nothing less from his home and children. I first read this story back in 2017 when it originally released, so it has been almost four years. That is where I found myself when listening to the audio for It Takes Two to Tumble, the first book in Cat Sebastian’s fantastic Seducing the Sedgewicks series.

Sometimes I forget how much I love a book or a series until I revisit the story and am reminded just how much I adore it. Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon /Audible | iBooks

It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian