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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
[b:Without Warning|1753425|Without Warning (Shaken, #1)|K.G. MacGregor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1359136448l/1753425._SX50_.jpg|1751247] is one of my favorite f/f books of all time. I honestly can't say exactly how many times I've read it. It's in my top five for rereading when I'm in a funk or in need of a literary hug, if you know what I mean. It has everything I want in a romance: crackling chemistry, tons of humor, sweet, sweet - but believable - angst, and developed characters that you cheer for. It's damn near perfect for me. Maybe even actually perfect. I've read each of the 3 sequels and enjoyed them all but never as much as that original.
When I saw that there was a new book in the series coming up, I was literally giddy. It has been many years since we've had a look into the Kaklis home and I was curious about what Anna, Lily, the kids, and the rest of the family had been up to. Mostly I was excited to experience that chemistry and humor again. Unfortunately, there wasn't any of that.
No friends, this book is solidly family drama. Timely, politically and socially relevant family drama. Anna is selling her huge auto empire for half-a-billion bucks, Lily is a judge, Andy is nearly 17 and butting heads with Anna on the regular. Georgie and Eleanor are perfect in every way from what I could tell. There are some other family things going on with George and Martine but the focus of this book is really Andy and Anna. I have to say that I really didn't like Anna much at all. By the end, I didn't dislike her but I never got a warm feeling for her again.
Maybe if I had gone into the book knowing it was almost solidly about "The Administration" (the word Trump is never mentioned but implied regularly), I would have felt differently about it. As it was, it was too much for me. I'm about as left as I can possibly be without being on the fringe and I think "The Administration" was evil incarnate and every one of those fuckers should be in prison or worse. But I didn't expect this book to preach to me about the evils of ICE - particularly since I agree with the sermon - in such a heavy handed way. I hesitate to write this because I don't want to come off as a heartless asshole who can't appreciate the tragedy that is our immigration policy.
I expected something completely different - COMPLETELY - and was disappointed with what I got. It happens. I just took a peek at some other reviews on Goodreads and I'm clearly in the minority. Which is awesome! I'm glad that I'm the anomaly. Because Anna and Lily stories should be loved. This one just didn't do it for me.
Thanks to Bella and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to revisit one of my favorite couples in all of wlw. I'll still keep on reading Without Warning whenever I feel down.
When I saw that there was a new book in the series coming up, I was literally giddy. It has been many years since we've had a look into the Kaklis home and I was curious about what Anna, Lily, the kids, and the rest of the family had been up to. Mostly I was excited to experience that chemistry and humor again. Unfortunately, there wasn't any of that.
No friends, this book is solidly family drama. Timely, politically and socially relevant family drama. Anna is selling her huge auto empire for half-a-billion bucks, Lily is a judge, Andy is nearly 17 and butting heads with Anna on the regular. Georgie and Eleanor are perfect in every way from what I could tell. There are some other family things going on with George and Martine but the focus of this book is really Andy and Anna. I have to say that I really didn't like Anna much at all. By the end, I didn't dislike her but I never got a warm feeling for her again.
Maybe if I had gone into the book knowing it was almost solidly about "The Administration" (the word Trump is never mentioned but implied regularly), I would have felt differently about it. As it was, it was too much for me. I'm about as left as I can possibly be without being on the fringe and I think "The Administration" was evil incarnate and every one of those fuckers should be in prison or worse. But I didn't expect this book to preach to me about the evils of ICE - particularly since I agree with the sermon - in such a heavy handed way. I hesitate to write this because I don't want to come off as a heartless asshole who can't appreciate the tragedy that is our immigration policy.
I expected something completely different - COMPLETELY - and was disappointed with what I got. It happens. I just took a peek at some other reviews on Goodreads and I'm clearly in the minority. Which is awesome! I'm glad that I'm the anomaly. Because Anna and Lily stories should be loved. This one just didn't do it for me.
Thanks to Bella and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to revisit one of my favorite couples in all of wlw. I'll still keep on reading Without Warning whenever I feel down.
Going into this book, in my head there was absolutely nothing that the author could do to top the previous books, I told myself that this was just another unnecessary add on to an already perfectly wrapped up series- boy was I wrong. In fact I loved this book so much to want to read the whole series again.
This book is a continuation of the Shaken series by KG MacGregor which started as two women trapped in a mall after an earthquake and slowly falling in love. In this book we get a further look into their family.
Everything about this book was perfect to me- from more of my favorite characters to even more character development and to top it all off a gut punch of reality.
We see Anna struggle with what many parents fail to even notice they’re doing and that is forcing their wants onto their child. She wants Andy to do everything her way and the satisfaction of her facing that adds on to my enjoyment of this book.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been unable to put a book down and admittedly for the first few pages of this book I had already made up my mind to give it four stars out of my lack of excitement but as I approached the climax of the book I found my self all over the place in emotion.
As someone who’s previously read up on the topic of ICE methods there was not a doubt about the realism of the story which helped add to the emotions that I felt.
Five stars! My only complaint is that it wasn’t longer because I would’ve loved more parenting scenes with them and their other two kids.
Delightful read! I highly recommend!
Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in return for an honest review!
This book is a continuation of the Shaken series by KG MacGregor which started as two women trapped in a mall after an earthquake and slowly falling in love. In this book we get a further look into their family.
Everything about this book was perfect to me- from more of my favorite characters to even more character development and to top it all off a gut punch of reality.
We see Anna struggle with what many parents fail to even notice they’re doing and that is forcing their wants onto their child. She wants Andy to do everything her way and the satisfaction of her facing that adds on to my enjoyment of this book.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been unable to put a book down and admittedly for the first few pages of this book I had already made up my mind to give it four stars out of my lack of excitement but as I approached the climax of the book I found my self all over the place in emotion.
As someone who’s previously read up on the topic of ICE methods there was not a doubt about the realism of the story which helped add to the emotions that I felt.
Five stars! My only complaint is that it wasn’t longer because I would’ve loved more parenting scenes with them and their other two kids.
Delightful read! I highly recommend!
Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in return for an honest review!
Going into this book, in my head there was absolutely nothing that the author could do to top the previous books, I told myself that this was just another unnecessary add on to an already perfectly wrapped up series- boy was I wrong. In fact I loved this book so much to want to read the whole series again.
This book is a continuation of the Shaken series by KG MacGregor which started as two women trapped in a mall after an earthquake and slowly falling in love. In this book we get a further look into their family.
Everything about this book was perfect to me- from more of my favorite characters to even more character development and to top it all off a gut punch of reality.
We see Anna struggle with what many parents fail to even notice they’re doing and that is forcing their wants onto their child. She wants Andy to do everything her way and the satisfaction of her facing that adds on to my enjoyment of this book.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been unable to put a book down and admittedly for the first few pages of this book I had already made up my mind to give it four stars out of my lack of excitement but as I approached the climax of the book I found my self all over the place in emotion.
As someone who’s previously read up on the topic of ICE methods there was not a doubt about the realism of the story which helped add to the emotions that I felt.
Five stars! My only complaint is that it wasn’t longer because I would’ve loved more parenting scenes with them and their other two kids.
Delightful read! I highly recommend!
Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in return for an honest review!
This book is a continuation of the Shaken series by KG MacGregor which started as two women trapped in a mall after an earthquake and slowly falling in love. In this book we get a further look into their family.
Everything about this book was perfect to me- from more of my favorite characters to even more character development and to top it all off a gut punch of reality.
We see Anna struggle with what many parents fail to even notice they’re doing and that is forcing their wants onto their child. She wants Andy to do everything her way and the satisfaction of her facing that adds on to my enjoyment of this book.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been unable to put a book down and admittedly for the first few pages of this book I had already made up my mind to give it four stars out of my lack of excitement but as I approached the climax of the book I found my self all over the place in emotion.
As someone who’s previously read up on the topic of ICE methods there was not a doubt about the realism of the story which helped add to the emotions that I felt.
Five stars! My only complaint is that it wasn’t longer because I would’ve loved more parenting scenes with them and their other two kids.
Delightful read! I highly recommend!
Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in return for an honest review!
ARC received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I was excited to see a new book in the Anna/Lily series, not sure what I was expecting after all this time, but it wasn’t this.
So, this takes place 10 years after [b:Mother Load|8041233|Mother Load (Shaken, #4)|K.G. MacGregor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328752825l/8041233._SY75_.jpg|12669240] and features Anna and Lily of course, as well as 16 year old Andy and 10 year old Georgie and Eleanor. Georgie and Eleanor don’t have much to do here, they’re mostly just background characters, and seemingly without any real flaws. Anna is still head of her car yards, but owns more of them now and Lily has moved up to be a judge, but I didn’t find either of them particularly interesting this time around.
As far as flaws for the kids, all of these have been left for Andy, who was a sweet little boy when last we saw him and has turned into a privileged little brat. Anna calls him on this, but Lily likes to be the “nice” mom and wave away most of what he’s doing. Andy is incredibly unlikeable, which I found unfortunate, because he was such a lovely character in the last book.
So, Anna is also trying to decide if she should sell her empire of car lots, which would also make Andy very unhappy, because even though he doesn’t like any aspect of running the business other than selling cars, he’s the heir apparent anyway. There’s lots of tension in the house between him and Anna, so the standard family vacation is something Lily is looking forward to. The whole family is jetting off, but Andy asks to stay behind for a day to attend a party. Given his behaviour up til this point, that should have been a big fat no anyway, but he gets his way.
This is where the story really lost me, up til this point I was just disappointed in how boring Anna and Lily now were and what a brat Andy was, but he then goes missing, because he’s been swept up by ICE. Anna and Lily don’t know this for awhile and we cut between them and Andy. I felt this whole storyline to be over the top. Not being from the US I don’t know how close this is to being true, but I hope it was a bit of poetic licence. Anyway, regardless, I didn’t really want to read something so political (and depressing) in a catch up with two of my favourite characters. The situation drags on for too long and bogs the book down.
I didn’t really like the epilogue either, which tried to tie things up in a big bow, especially with the gift Andy gets from Anna, which was way over the top and in no way earned. I wish I’d skipped this to be honest, it just left me feeling flat. I preferred how we left these characters in Mother Load. 3 stars.
I was excited to see a new book in the Anna/Lily series, not sure what I was expecting after all this time, but it wasn’t this.
So, this takes place 10 years after [b:Mother Load|8041233|Mother Load (Shaken, #4)|K.G. MacGregor|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328752825l/8041233._SY75_.jpg|12669240] and features Anna and Lily of course, as well as 16 year old Andy and 10 year old Georgie and Eleanor. Georgie and Eleanor don’t have much to do here, they’re mostly just background characters, and seemingly without any real flaws. Anna is still head of her car yards, but owns more of them now and Lily has moved up to be a judge, but I didn’t find either of them particularly interesting this time around.
As far as flaws for the kids, all of these have been left for Andy, who was a sweet little boy when last we saw him and has turned into a privileged little brat. Anna calls him on this, but Lily likes to be the “nice” mom and wave away most of what he’s doing. Andy is incredibly unlikeable, which I found unfortunate, because he was such a lovely character in the last book.
So, Anna is also trying to decide if she should sell her empire of car lots, which would also make Andy very unhappy, because even though he doesn’t like any aspect of running the business other than selling cars, he’s the heir apparent anyway. There’s lots of tension in the house between him and Anna, so the standard family vacation is something Lily is looking forward to. The whole family is jetting off, but Andy asks to stay behind for a day to attend a party. Given his behaviour up til this point, that should have been a big fat no anyway, but he gets his way.
This is where the story really lost me, up til this point I was just disappointed in how boring Anna and Lily now were and what a brat Andy was, but he then goes missing, because he’s been swept up by ICE. Anna and Lily don’t know this for awhile and we cut between them and Andy. I felt this whole storyline to be over the top. Not being from the US I don’t know how close this is to being true, but I hope it was a bit of poetic licence. Anyway, regardless, I didn’t really want to read something so political (and depressing) in a catch up with two of my favourite characters. The situation drags on for too long and bogs the book down.
I didn’t really like the epilogue either, which tried to tie things up in a big bow, especially with the gift Andy gets from Anna, which was way over the top and in no way earned. I wish I’d skipped this to be honest, it just left me feeling flat. I preferred how we left these characters in Mother Load. 3 stars.