Book Review: "The Family Reunion" By Karen King

 

Imagine this...

A secret daughter who was abandoned as an infant now seeks your presence at an invited party.

However, lets not over exaggerate because it seems everything isn't coming up roses.

In fact, the two children of Mary arent' keen on this Cathy (aka Hope in her mind) is the real deal.

Lets backtrack a bit...

It turns out that Mary and Paul were happily married till he had a sudden medical condition. That led to a situation in which Mary sought family.

She began to have some interesting flashbacks to her past including her time with her first love Robbie - a hardcore type of fella.

Robbie we are led to believe was a bad dude with a shady past and so in her mind he was all but dead himself.

As the years went on nobody knew of this past life of Mary's not even her two children Joanne and Jason. They're both grown so what harm would it be to inform them of this past life and a step sibling?
Until the DNA proved that Cathy really was her long lost daughter.

Talk about opening up Pandora's box.

Everything went downhill literally from that moment of the reunion with Cathy. Was Cathy to blame or was there so much more to this story.

Strange things began happening to Mary who was possibly suffering from dementia...or was she?

Look, not everything is as it seems.

Money we all know is the root of all evil. Speaking of which these siblings seems to have plenty to discuss behind closed doors.

Why so many secrets? Will the truth ever be exposed? Will anyone be caught and brought to justice?

The storyline by Karen was a chock full of nuts. Broken people who hurt people is the best way to describe some of these characters. Everyone seeking love but in all the wrong places. Everyone wanting that attention, craving that adulation, yet starving themselves in the process.

If only we all knew how it would end....Would they be happy? Would this family become whole?

Karen King has found that soft spot that everyone could relate too and open it up to the world by exposing the fact that we all have secrets to tell.

A great read that I highly recommend!! The epilogue was pure gold!

Thank you Karen King, Bookouture, and Netgalley for this advanced reader's copy.

This thriller will be due out January 23rd! Don't miss out!