This month's challenge from Wendy's 2013 TBR Challenge was to read an author that is new to me. I try to get out my romance comfort zone every now and then and read something different. I chose to read "The Family Business" by Carl Weber. I can say it was truly different. Family Business starts out with the description of the Duncans. The Duncans are a prominent family in Jamaica, Queens. They own a successful car dealership. But their real deal is crime. The father LC is about to retire and turn the business over to one of his children. Which one will it be? The mother Chippy has named all her children after cities she likes, Paris, Orlando, London, Rio and Vegas. We get to read about all their messy secrets and personal problems. There is a great deal of profanity and unromantic sex involved. It read like a straight-to-DVD movie script. I will not be watching...I mean, reading the sequel. Returning now to my HEA's.
I skimmed quite a bit so I don't feel comfortable giving this book a grade, I'll just say if you like family conflict, crime, sex, betrayal, hit men and murder in your novels, you can have my copy of Family Business.
Do what I do - chalk this one up as an exercise in reader's advisory :)
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