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A review by jenbsbooks
The Reunion by Meghan Quinn
2.5
I grabbed this as it was included in KindleUnlimited, text and audio. It had high ratings (4+) ... unfortunately, it didn't live up to four stars for me. There was SO. MUCH. SMIRKING. I had just come off a book that had a lot of smirking, so I was already irritated with the word. Here, the characters smirked 41 times ... and that's about 40 times too many.
Contemporary romance ... 1st person/present tense, with SIX points of view. There are the three siblings, Ford, Cooper and Palmer, and then a love interest for each (Larkin, Nora, Beau). The chapters were labeled, and in audio, there were six different narrators. That's both good and bad. It IS needed, as they are all 1st person, they need their own distinct voices. But then as the characters are together quite a bit, we/the listener, get Ford's narrator doing Palmer/Cooper/Nora, etc, and Cooper's narrator doing Palmer/Nora/Ford, etc., and Nora's narrator doing Palmer/Cooper/Ford ... that's always an issue with dual narration, but here, with SIX narrators and a lot of overlap, it was a little hard to keep things straight.
This had quite a bit of proFanity (I forgot to do a 'count' and my KU subscription expired), and explicit sex. I'd mentioned this book to a neighbor (because she has a son named Ford, which I hadn't heard as a name before) and she had said she'd put it on her to read list ... I need to give the spice/language heads up, and ... it's a little icky to have your son's name in a sex scene (I have a Cooper myself).
It was pretty predictable as far as the romance ... you know the siblings are going to get together with Larkin, Nora and Beau. There is some humor along the way, but SO much bickering between the siblings. The SOs struggled with it, and so did I (and so did many others, glancing at other reviews).
There were other family issues (the two boys started off as foster placements, then adopted. Some things that had happened that had never been talked about. Situations with aging parents) and I'll admit that I really liked how things came together in the end. I just don't know that it was enough to leave the book as a positive memory (the smirking is still first and foremost in my mind). I didn't have any notes/highlights, not really one I'd recommend, not one I want for my bookshelf. Those are things that can push a rating up for me. 2.5*
Contemporary romance ... 1st person/present tense, with SIX points of view. There are the three siblings, Ford, Cooper and Palmer, and then a love interest for each (Larkin, Nora, Beau). The chapters were labeled, and in audio, there were six different narrators. That's both good and bad. It IS needed, as they are all 1st person, they need their own distinct voices. But then as the characters are together quite a bit, we/the listener, get Ford's narrator doing Palmer/Cooper/Nora, etc, and Cooper's narrator doing Palmer/Nora/Ford, etc., and Nora's narrator doing Palmer/Cooper/Ford ... that's always an issue with dual narration, but here, with SIX narrators and a lot of overlap, it was a little hard to keep things straight.
This had quite a bit of proFanity (I forgot to do a 'count' and my KU subscription expired), and explicit sex. I'd mentioned this book to a neighbor (because she has a son named Ford, which I hadn't heard as a name before) and she had said she'd put it on her to read list ... I need to give the spice/language heads up, and ... it's a little icky to have your son's name in a sex scene (I have a Cooper myself).
It was pretty predictable as far as the romance ... you know the siblings are going to get together with Larkin, Nora and Beau. There is some humor along the way, but SO much bickering between the siblings. The SOs struggled with it, and so did I (and so did many others, glancing at other reviews).
There were other family issues (the two boys started off as foster placements, then adopted. Some things that had happened that had never been talked about. Situations with aging parents) and I'll admit that I really liked how things came together in the end. I just don't know that it was enough to leave the book as a positive memory (the smirking is still first and foremost in my mind). I didn't have any notes/highlights, not really one I'd recommend, not one I want for my bookshelf. Those are things that can push a rating up for me. 2.5*