This book takes us back to the majorly f-ed up Donato
family, and if you haven’t read the first book, Everything We Keep, there is
almost no point in reading this one, as it’s hard to pick up the threads of the
plot – I even had a hard time in sections as I forgot some of the plot points
from the first book. Long story short, it is five years later and James wakes
up from his “fugue” state. He’s been Carlos for over six years, has two kids
and a long-term girlfriend, but remembers none of it. He wants to go “home” to
California and reclaim his former fiancée Aimee, and he uproots his family and
discards his old life. But remnants of Carlos remain, and there’s some
unfinished business with his cousin/half-brother Phil, who is about to get out
of prison.
James needs to remember the circumstances surrounding his
accident in order to know what kind of a threat Phil is to him, and he has to
navigate the increasingly complicated web of his family: Aimee has moved on
with Ian and has a child with him, his mother was pretending to be his neighbor
for the last five years to get to see her grandkids, and he somehow fell in
love with his dead wife’s sister. There’s plenty more sex in this iteration,
and the book moves along at a fast pace, making it a worthy beach read. Oh, and
there’s a hint at the end that there might even be a third offering in the
future, though if James/Carlos changes personality again I might not be
interested in the result.
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