Forever Family

A perfect ending to a wonderful series. I discovered Deanna Roy’s books a little over 2 years ago when I purchased Forever Innocent; I’ve been a huge fan of hers ever since – no matter what name she writes under. (She is also JJ Knight and Annie Winters.) Forever Family reunites us with Corabelle, Jenny and Tina and brings us up-to-date a bit on what they’ve been doing. As the book blurb says, you can probably read this as a standalone but I think you’d really be missing out if you don’t have the history for each of these women. (There’s a boxed set for the first three books that will save you some $.) While each of the earlier stories came to a very satisfying conclusion for me, I loved reading this book with additional information about these characters. There are parts of this book that will tear your heart out but it was worth every tear I shed while reading this book. Tina’s story was the most compelling for me – she really goes through a lot – but I enjoyed reading about all of them. Deanna seems to have a knack for touching on all emotions, which is my favorite kind of book to read. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next now that this series is finished. I almost forgot – the men in this story are pretty wonderful, too, especially Dr. Darion. *****Reviewed for Xtreme-Delusions*****

As seems to be the case frequently as of late, I have mixed feelings on this one. So again, I'm going to throw out there what I did and didn't like and let you make the call on whether you want to read or not. Being a huge fan of this entire series I HAD to read this! I loved getting another look at all the couples I've come to love in these books. Life had been so hard for all of them I wanted to know that they had each found their HEA and life was going along splendidly. That's not at all what I got. The birth of Jenny and Chance's baby brings buried feelings back to surface for both Tina and Corabelle as well as new anxieties for Jenny. This book gives us the story of how they deal with everything and move past it. Again. So it seems that what I loved about this book is also what bothered me just a bit. I guess it's just the reality of the story. How even though we think we've moved past something those old feelings can be triggered again. Since I read for the pure pleasure of escaping reality for a time perhaps the story hits to close to home.