A Welcome Reunion is a novella follow up to the full length book The Perfect Child. Lucinda Berry writes top notch psychologically twisted stories, all the more disturbing because of her background as a child psychologist specializing in trauma. I won't get too much into the plot of this novella as that would spoil some of the Perfect Child. 

In The Perfect Child, Hannah and Christopher adopt a very malnourished and abused little girl named Janie. Literally everything hits the fan, and the book leaves us with a hauntingly open ending. A Welcome Reunion takes place years later, and I immediately felt connected to these characters again and very invested in their wellbeing. Berry really knocked it out of the park with drawing readers back in and creating so much depth with so few words. 

I felt the ending of this novella was extremely abrupt and didn't really match the writing style of the rest of the piece. However, I flew through this and dropped every other book I was currently reading so that says a lot about how compelling it was. I highly recommend this and it's predecessor, The Perfect Child.