Accidentally Family by Sasha Summers – a Review

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Description:
Welcome to Pecan Valley, where the town may be small but the townspeople will always lend a helping hand or a shoulder to lean on. Where good times, good humor, and good people will always lead to happily ever after.

Life for Felicity, and her teen children, is finally back on track. After her divorce, she wasn’t sure if her sweet family would ever be the same. But things are good––right up until her ex’s spirited toddler lands on Felicity’s doorstep. If the universe is going to throw lemons at her, thank God she has her best friend, Graham, to help her make lemonade out of them. How did she never notice how kind and sexy he is?

Graham is still recovering from his wife’s death years ago and trying to help his teen daughter get her life together. Who is he kidding? His daughter hates him. Forget lemons––he’s got the entire lemon tree. So when Felicity suggests they join forces and help each other, he’s all in. And suddenly he can’t stop thinking about her as more than just a friend. Too bad their timing couldn’t be worse…

Because life rarely goes as planned. Luckily there are many different kinds of family to hold you together and lift you up…plus maybe even a little love between friends.

Review:

Accidentally Family by Sasha Summers is a good solid read.  It has a little of everything in it; drama, romance, ups and downs of life, teen issues, humour, and even death.  I think it’s safe to say this one runs you through the gauntlet of life but in the end love does triumph over all.  Miss Summers writes her story as if she is actually walking down the streets of Pecan Valley and knows each character personally.  As I got more and more into this one, that’s exactly how I felt, as if I were a part of Pecan Valley and I was watching the events of friends and family unfold before my very eyes. It’s the type of story you get invested in for not only the main characters, but the secondary characters as well, and you want everyone to wind up in a good place by books end. 

Both Graham and Felicity are very real characters with real lives, and real life issues.  Felicity and Graham are both struggling with putting their lives back together after they each find themselves single for different reasons; Felicity her husband left her and their children for another women, Graham his wife passed away from cancer leaving him to raise their teen daughter.  Neither have had it easy, but they were always there for each other, but never thought they’d find love again, yet alone finding love with each other.  Their journey to their HEA isn’t easy as it meets with restraints in the form of Felicity’s son Nick, where as Graham’s daughter Dianna  sees right away that they have feelings for each other and thinks they’d be great together and she’d love to be a part of Felicity’s family.  Thanks to Felicity’s son their romance falls off the tracks for a bit but thanks to his aunt Charity, his sister and Dianna, he finally sees what they all see and realizes he needs to help fix the situation and does so in the end with everyone’s help.  Along the way Nick also comes to terms with his new baby brother and winds up loving him even more then he thought.  Yes I know the main focus of this story is about Felicity and Graham, but seeing Nick go through his transformation from hating is dad for everything he did and caused to his family brought a raw and realness to the story that once again made you connect to another character in the story on a different level.  There were also a few other mini stories going on beyond Nick’s.  You had Honour and Owen’s young love story, Felicity’s sister Charity coming back home single and pregnant and reconnecting with her old flame Officer Martinez, just what was up with them in the past and where could their story go??  One can only guess until their story is hopefully written.

As I said at the beginning of my review, Accidentally Family is a good solid read from beginning to end.  It’s the kind of story that gets you invested in not only the main couple but everyone else involved.  Yes there we some very raw and serious moments in this one, but Miss Summers balanced everything out with some humourous and fun scenes as well. 

Until next time, happy reading everyone!!

Reviewed by Marcie

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