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For the Twins' Sake (Tiny Blessings Series #1) (Love Inspired #308)

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This book is a great story filled with heartake and love. Meg is a young woman who went through a nasty devorice, Jared is a young man who has loved and lost. The only thing that they have in common is thier twins boys who got seperated at birth. And found eachother at a party. The solution have one family in the same house. That means that Meg and Jared have to get married. This is one of the sweetest love stories there is.

Meg and Jared enter a marriage of convenience "for the twins' sake" meaning the boys they've each adopted separately. Meg is a divorced single mom busy with her job and her son, Luke; Jared is grieving the loss of his wife and trying to raise their adopted son Chance. At the anniversary party of the adoption agency, the two discover that their sons are identical twins who've somehow been separated. Deciding to raise them together, Meg and Jared marry despite Meg's reluctance to deal with her distrust of men and Jared's guilt over his wife's sudden death. There's a subplot of sorts that's not resolved (which it probably will be in a sequel or two) about the agency's past dealings and the parentage of Kelly, one of the agency's workers. While the situation is unrealistic, Meg's brokenheartedness is all too real.

fpr the twin's sake is about two adults who history ges back to high school discovered that each one who them has adopted a twin boys .the mother meg is dealing with a nasty divoce and a husband who treated her bad. the father jared is still mourning the lose of his wife . the ending result of the book would make you want to cry .

The premise of the story, improbable though it is, wasn't so far outside the realm of possibility for me to believe it. However, the protagonists behave in an entirely unrealistic manner. Upon discovering that two people have adopted one twin, that one of them could legally pursue custody of both, but that she would never exercise her claim, any ordinary couple would:
1) discuss joint custody, and/or
2) perhaps allow Grandma to babysit both boys during the day as a preliminary solution, and/or
3) pursue friendly relations for the sake of the children, and/or
4) take time to become acquainted with one another.
They would NOT, under any possible real-life circumstances, jump into a marriage. There was no discussion of finances. No discussion of child-rearing philosophy. No real acknowledgement of Meg's pain. And speaking of Meg's pain, there is absolutely no way it is even imaginable that a woman who is that broken in spirit would jump into a marriage with any man, regardless of the circumstances. I believe that she would do anything in the world that would benefit her child, but marriage would not be a necessity to his well-being. (Ms. Hart did do an excellent job of explaining Meg's pain and the emotional state that her marriage left her in.)

In addition to all this, the editing of the second half of the book was so awful that I was pulled out of the story every page or two, wondering whether the book was simply thrown together to meet a deadline, or whether someone was just too exhausted to notice that:
1) typos and grammatical errors abound
2) the exact same phrasing and in one instance, an entire sentence, appear multiple times
3) a sudden upcoming trip appears from nowhere (probably the same trip referenced in the first half of the book, and someone forgot that the passage had been moved

I read Ms. Hart's books because I like the honest simplicity of the them, and of the characters. I like the morality and the goodness (though I'm not Christian, and don't see faith as a virtue). She generally doesn't do much (or anything at all) by way of character development, which is unfortunate, though not fatal to her books. However, the lack of character development in this book, combined with the utter lack of realism on the part of the characters' actions and the failure of any hint of copy editing in the second half makes this book a total waste of time.