The Reunion

De: Meghan Quinn

Narrado por: Lidia Dornet, Teddy Hamilton, Laurie West, Rock Engle, CJ Bloom, Stephen Borne

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Wedding Game comes a new romantic comedy about the antics that ensue when three siblings come together for their parents’ fiftieth-anniversary party.

Martin and Peggy Chance believe love should last a lifetime. With their fiftieth wedding anniversary on the horizon, they’ve modeled a beautiful relationship for their three grown children. But to their dismay, that lesson hasn’t quite caught on—the three siblings just can’t seem to take a chance and find love in their own lives.

There’s Ford, the eldest, devoted to his work and resistant to romance...or so he claims. Cooper, the middle child, can’t get past his divorce—until he reconnects with a feisty baker from his past. And Palmer, the baby of the family, is the free-spirited world traveler who always pictured herself with someone other than a handsome small-town family doctor.

When the Chance siblings come together to plan the ultimate anniversary party for their parents, they’ll have to navigate romantic entanglements, sibling rivalries, and the definitive end of their childhood. Whatever happens, The Reunion promises to be a fun, flirty, wild ride.

©2022 by Meghan Quinn (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Funny, brilliant, and full of swoon. Fans of The Family Stone will adore this book. A must read.”—Kendall Ryan, New York Times bestselling author

“Are you a fan of the family dynamics in Schitt’s Creek? Then you will devour this book. Real, raw, and hilarious. Meghan Quinn at her best.”—Rachel Van Dyken, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Hooked from the very first page, this book has it all. The drama, the romance, the heat, and especially the humor.”—Laurelin Page, New York Times bestselling author

Cooper’s voice ughhh

Loved the story but Cooper’s voice was not great and mostly grated on my nerves 😫

Laugh out loud hilarious

Admittedly the six POV narrators took a little getting used to, but I really came to enjoy the experience and the performances. I would have liked the book had I read it, but I absolutely love it after listening. The whole book is great with so many parts that I literally laughed out loud and couldn’t wait to tell my husband.

Okay story

Luckily this was a read and listen book. I found myself reading some of it. The Cooper narrator was so distracting that it was really hard to listen to. I had to speed his part up faster than the others to make it tolerable.

Funny and poignant! But poor reader!

I thought this story was sweet on many different levels...the sibling rivalry, the budding romances and the relationship with aging parents. There were moments where I laughed out loud and others where I felt badly for each of the siblings. The back and forth banter between them was hilarious
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE....
I could NOT get past the voice of Cooper. Why did they choose this individual to read for this story.? I almost gave up on the book because of it. Cooper sounds like a stereotypical dumb jock type and the character wasn't even close to that! And when "Cooper" read a female reply? It only got worse. A disservice to the story itself.

Good story line and nice family story.

The narration was very good. The story was well thought out and the plot was well developed. The details were a little too detailed and the language was a little rough. Hey, I'm old and I own that. but for a cozy this one was more than I expected. I promised an honest review and I'm giving my opinion.

COOPER NARRATION ALMOST RUINED AN AMAZING STORY!!!

I almost quit the book several times because of the horrible, robotic, and monotone narration by Cooper aka Stephen Borne!!!!!! At the end of the day I'm so glad I didn't tho! Meghan did it again providing yet another witty, refreshing, familial, romantic, and funny novel! Yes, I cringed everytime Coopers chapter came up but I powered through it and thoroughly enjoyed the book!

Fantastic except for Cooper

As other reviews say, this book is great fun; however, Cooper's narrator needs a different job. His female voice sounded like a broken robot and his voice like a 90's infomercial. A shame because his character was so charming.

Entertaining

Easy to listen to. I was nervous about keeping track of the multiple narrators, but the voice are distinct enough to not have any confusion.

Fun & fast but definite problems

There were two voices that I didn’t like and they really detracted from the story for me.

As far as the story goes, Palmer was insufferable and every tome her part came up, I wanted someone to smack her.

There were a lot of fun parts in this and I chuckled several times. The characters voices were also good, which is a feat considering there are 6 points of view — even without the announcement of the POV at the beginning if each chapter and the change of narration, I would have known which character it was.

I almost liked the siblings figuring out their relationships more than the romances, though., which os a bit of an issue in a romcom.

SO.MUCH.SMIRKING ...

I grabbed this as it was included in KindleUnlimited, text and audio. It had high ratings (4+) ... unfortunately, it didn't live up to four stars for me. There was SO. MUCH. SMIRKING. I had just come off a book that had a lot of smirking, so I was already irritated with the word. Here, the characters smirked 41 times ... and that's about 40 times too many.

Contemporary romance ... 1st person/present tense, with SIX points of view. There are the three siblings, Ford, Cooper and Palmer, and then a love interest for each (Larkin, Nora, Beau). The chapters were labeled, and in audio, there were six different narrators. That's both good and bad. It IS needed, as they are all 1st person, they need their own distinct voices. But then as the characters are together quite a bit, we/the listener, get Ford's narrator doing Palmer/Cooper/Nora, etc, and Cooper's narrator doing Palmer/Nora/Ford, etc., and Nora's narrator doing Palmer/Cooper/Ford ... that's always an issue with dual narration, but here, with SIX narrators and a lot of overlap, it was a little hard to keep things straight.

This had quite a bit of proFanity (I forgot to do a 'count' and my KU subscription expired), and explicit sex. I'd mentioned this book to a neighbor (because she has a son named Ford, which I hadn't heard as a name before) and she had said she'd put it on her to read list ... I need to give the spice/language heads up, and ... it's a little icky to have your son's name in a sex scene (I have a Cooper myself).

It was pretty predictable as far as the romance ... you know the siblings are going to get together with Larkin, Nora and Beau. There is some humor along the way, but SO much bickering between the siblings. The SOs struggled with it, and so did I (and so did many others, glancing at other reviews).

There were other family issues (the two boys started off as foster placements, then adopted. Some things that had happened that had never been talked about. Situations with aging parents) and I'll admit that I really liked how things came together in the end. I just don't know that it was enough to leave the book as a positive memory (the smirking is still first and foremost in my mind). I didn't have any notes/highlights, not really one I'd recommend, not one I want for my bookshelf. Those are things that can push a rating up for me. 2.5*