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    Necessary Restorations
    Necessary Restorations
    Necessary Restorations
    Audiobook9 hours

    Necessary Restorations

    Written by Kate Canterbary

    Narrated by Lucy Rivers and Christian Fox

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    Sam Walsh is hanging on by a thread.

    He works hard at concealing his chronic illnesses and represses the lingering pains of childhood, but he's running out of vices to distract him from his wounds.

    Nothing feels good anymore. Not his prize-winning work preserving historic homes, not the family that refuses to give up on him even when he's at his most self-destructive. The only thing he wants is the conservatory-trained chaos he meets in a stalled elevator car.

    She's the friend he never asked for and can't imagine living without. Then, she's more than a friend. She's everything.

    Tiel Desai is not the same person she used to be.

    She's finally found a place for herself in Boston, leaving the rejection and disappointment of her past behind. She keeps herself too busy to think about any of it, her days spent in grad school and with neurodivergent children in her music therapy practice, her nights devoted to the city's underground music scene.

    She's learned how to get by-until Sam Walsh crashes into her world. He up-ends everything and takes spaces in her life she didn't know she had to give.

    They find more in each other than they ever realized they were missing.

    But finding it might not be enough to keep it-or each other.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 21, 2016
    ISBN9781515970101
    Necessary Restorations

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    • 5/5
      Okay this statement will and should surprise the hell out of you that THIS is my favorite Walsh Family series book. Kate Canterbary continues stuns me with her originality and engrossing storytelling that had me reading chapter after chapter with the inability to put it down until 'how will this end'. This story isn't easy. This story doesn't belong in the wheelhouse of what I find entertaining to read. Yet, it moved me and so engrossed me that I read slow, not wanting the story to end.

      The journey for Sam and Tiel isn't paved with rose petals to get to a HEA. As you read through the series, you'll find yourself experience each family member through the POV of the other. You know that Sam will be complicated. He is. As a romance reader, you hope he gets a heroine who is spreads sunshine and rainbows to save our complex hero. No such luck. Ms. Canterbary gives us flawed and beautiful characters that aren't meant to save one another. This isn't the typical trope where one saves the other. Because the only way they can be saved is if they save themselves first. What they had set them to a journey to be better humans.

      Okay did I frighten you away? Please don't. I know this sounds overly dramatic but Sam and Tiel's story pulled a lot of emotions from this reader. Although sad at times, not so heartbreaking that it ruined me. From the start of their relationship, this was the first book where I began to believe that if they didn't end up together it would be okay. It's seriously the journey of them coming to grips with the issues they face over the HEA that won their story for me.

      Another day - same lecture: Read the series from book one in order. Sam and Tiel are complex. They deserve the readers time and attention to know them first through other's eyes before giving voice to their own story. I am bewitched by Kate Canterbary's story telling and be a forever fan. 5 out of 5 stars.
    • 5/5
      To be fair to this review, I have to admit that I just powered through all the books in this series that have been released to date, so trying to tease out my thoughts about them individually will be challenging. However, I think it's fair to saw that I liked them!

      Also, all of these books take place through overlapping sequences of time and events, so you get to see some of them through multiple points of view. This makes it especially rich and interesting, but does mean that they will lose something as stand alones. I highly suggest reading them in order.

      This book is the one in the series where stuff started to get real for me. Some of the secrets and damage of the family history begins to be revealed as more than hints, as the more scarred members of the family find their partners. Sam and Tiel remind me most of myself of all of them, since my partner and I also have a pretty "ride-or-die honesty pact". I love how their HEA is more of the beginning of the rest of their lives.