My Rating for The Family Gathering is: 4 Stars
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Dakota Jones has left the military and has basically just
wandered around the world while trying to figure out what his next path in life
is. His older brother and younger sister have settled in the hills of Colorado
in Sullivan’s Crossing and Dakota figures he can see what’s up with them while
trying to figure out where he will go next in life. But Dakota is unprepared to
find that he is in everyone’s crosshairs, including the single ladies who are
hoping to catch him for their own. Except the one woman in town who draws
Dakota like no other is determined to not be snared by Dakota’s good looks and
charm.
As Dakota finds himself enjoying getting to know his
siblings again and tries to see them as the adults they are not the
remembrances of a childhood filled with pain and upheaval. As Dakota finds out,
family are ones who love you unconditionally and that may be the greatest gift
he ever will get as it will steer him to the home and love he always longed
for.
Robyn Carr’s third installment into the wonderful Sullivan’s
Crossing is full of returning characters, some new faces and more that will
certainly charm the reader after the first page is read. We meet two of the
Jones siblings in the first two books (What We Find and Any Day Now) and I
loved catching up with them in book three as well as finding out more about the
other Jones’ siblings, Dakota and Sedona. Ms. Carr delivers a heartfelt story
that left me hanging onto the pages for dear life as I flipped pages quickly to
see where she was taking these wonderful characters on. I love, love, love this
series and THE FAMILY GATHERING just
cemented it as one of my go to series for a pick me up. The story flows
smoothly and quickly and there was just enough of new faces to keep me engaged
in the story and invested in the characters. I was thrilled to see more of
Sully, Cal, Maggie, Sierra, Connie and a few other familiar faces as well as
meet some new ones such as Sidney, Rafe, Rob and more. I loved the way this
author captures each of the characters individual personalities and I fell in
love with Sidney, her brother Rob and their family as I did with the Jones’.
THE
FAMILY GATHERING isn’t all romance and whatnot, it has mental
illness, stalkers and a few other items that had me on the edge of my seat
wondering if all would end well for the characters. What makes this book, heck
this series, so enjoyable is the characters. They are diverse, intriguing and
downright entertaining. Every time I
open a Robyn Carr book, I am brought back to a place where it feels like
family. Her gift of storytelling is just amazing, and she does a wonderful
service on the world of mental illness, neurosurgery and other issues that were
brought up in the series. I can’t wait to see where book four, The Best of Us,
goes next now that the Jones siblings are settled and can’t wait to see where
her masterful storytelling takes us. If you enjoy a heartwarming series that
will tug at your heart strings and will make you laugh, cry then laugh some
more, then pick up the Sullivan’s Crossing series and settle in for a wonderful
time set in the lushness of the Colorado portion of the Continental Divide and
enjoy meeting the residents of this sleepy little place.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement
This is an objective review and not an endorsement
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