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Reviewed by Priya Mathew for Readers' Favorite
We’re Survivors by Mona Risk opens with a gut punch. Angely Carlisle stands at the altar in her wedding dress, bouquet in hand, but the groom never comes. He sends his brother, Dr. Chris Tanner, instead. It is a beginning that tastes bitter before the story even starts. Two years later, Angely has rebuilt her life as a single mother in Fort Lauderdale, and Chris has survived a bomb explosion in Iraq and returned home in a wheelchair. Fate places them both in the same room at Winston Rehab Center. Angely is assigned as Chris’s physical therapist. Will the very person his family wronged touch his wounds now and help him walk? As Chris fights his way back to recovery, can Angely decide whether to trust another Tanner with her heart?
We’re Survivors is a slow-burn romance compressed into medical urgency. There is something warm and direct about the writing style. The dialogues are clipped and honest, always charged with the electricity of two people trying hard not to feel what they feel. Chris is not his brother, Logan. However, he does carry the guilt for his brother’s actions. Angely is not just a wronged woman. She is fiercely protective, competent, and aware of her own fear. She wants the relationship with Chris to work, but she has been burned once and cannot afford another fire. Little Noah is one of the novel’s quiet surprises. His bond with Chris, the way he calls him ‘Ki-Ki’, and his almost tyrannical-sounding ‘no-no-no’, add a layer of warmth to the storyline. The supporting cast also helps in fleshing out the medical setting and gives the story a sense of community. Mona Risk handles the medical backdrop with confidence. Chris’s nerve damage, his surgeries, his slow crawl from wheelchair to crutch to walking on his own, each of these details feels earned. Chris slowly reclaims himself – not just his leg, but his sense of confidence and his capacity to believe he deserves something good. If you enjoy second-chance romances and medical settings, you will find yourself invested in Chris and Angely’s journey.
