Title: A Beautiful Funeral
Author: Jamie McGuire
Series: Beautiful Disaster
Previous Books in the Series:
1. Beautiful Disaster
2. Walking Disaster
Date Started: October 30
Date Finished: October 31
Format: Kindle book from my collection
Losing has never been easy for a Maddox, but death always wins. Eleven years to the day after eloping in Vegas with Abby, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas’s oldest and most violent crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is a target.
The secret Thomas and Travis have kept for a decade will be revealed to the rest of the family, and for the first time the Maddoxes will be at odds. While none of them are strangers to loss, the family has grown, and the risk is higher than ever. With brothers against brothers and wives taking sides, each member will make a choice—let the fear tear them apart, or make them stronger.
So, when I originally added this to my TBR shelf on Goodreads, this was supposed to be book 3 of the Beautiful Disaster series. I noticed a few months ago that it became book 5 of the Maddox Brother series, and I was actually kind of annoyed. I hate when books do that. I wasn’t going to read the other four books in the Maddox Brothers series, because in all honesty I wasn’t interested in the other Maddox brothers at all, I was just interested in Travis and Abby. And even though I didn’t do that, I was still caught up on everything that had happened between all the members of this family pretty quickly. In fact a good chunk of this book was more about rehashing what had happened in the previous four than what was really going on now.
Which is just one of my many complaints. Second? There were too many narrators to keep straight. At one point I even forgot what chapter the current POV was and I really didn’t care, not a good sign. The couple that I came to know and love from Beautiful Disaster wasn’t all that present in this book. I mean, there was that brief point right before Travis has to tell the whole family the truth, but other than that there was a lot of sibling fighting. And then the true death in this book was actually just…blah. I mean after everything that had happened in this book, I wasn’t all that surprised and really could have done without the final ‘in memorium’ chapter that we got with him in it. It was weird and kind of out of place.
Final Rating: 2 out of 5 stars. I should have not read this book at all and just let Travis and Abby had their ending that they had in Beautiful Disaster/Walking Disaster. There were too many POVs to keep track of. Events were actually getting kind of melodramatic and ridiculous. And I wasn’t all that saddened by the character who died in this book.
Bookshelf worthy? Pass.
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