If You Must Know by Jamie Beck follows the Foster Family. Life turns upside down for sisters Amanda and Erin Foster who couldn't be any more different. Amanda is a pulled-together, part-time early childhood educator, expectant wife to her real-estate mogul husband Lyle. Erin is a struggling yoga-teaching, bath-bomb making free-spirit. ⁣
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The family's separate but happy lives are all twisted by lives. Then a scandal breaks out involving Amanda's husband and the family must come together, while also struggling with grief over the loss of their patriarch a year prior. ⁣
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The biggest strength of this book was its fleshed-out female characters. I enjoyed the sister-sister and mother-daughter dynamics as they were untraditional from what I've seen before. However, the writing of this book was lacking. It was very simplistic and it didn't have enough descriptive details. It is also a slow read. ⁣
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I'd market it as a contemporary novel rather than romance, as there was only a slow-burning, no steam romance included. If you are going to pick this up, I recommend it as a beach read or something lighter between more emotional books.