Reread 04/2022 Sam and Tiel’s story still made me feel all the things. Upon reread, however, I found how Sam was written to be a little uneven. I dislike how the term manwhore was used - less whorephobia plz thanks. I think there may have been a better way to talk about how Sam relied on anonymous sex as a reaction to his upbringing - that was a missed connection imo. I was very moved when reading Sam going to his mother and baby sister’s gravesite to clean it. The trauma the Walsh children experienced watching their mother die, then compounded by Angus’s wrath is a thread that weaves throughout these stories. And it could have been a little tighter with Sam’s story.

These damn Walshes! I did not expect Sam's story to put me in all the feels. The transition from man-whore to lovey-boyfriend seemed like it would be a ridiculous concept, but the backstory of Tiel and Sam are so well-developed and I truly believed their love story. Ahh, I cannot get enough of this family! ( )

I loved reading Necessary Restorations (The Walsh Series Book 3), all about Sam Walsh the fourth youngest in the Walsh clan. Their are six Walsh siblings the four boys are Architectures, three went to Cornell and the second youngest went to RISD. The two girls are Shannon she is a realtor & a lawyer, she went to school at Cornell and the youngest Erin is a Geologist, she went to school in Hawaii and studies volcano's all over the world. The five oldest siblings are all in business together, they own an Preservation Architecture firm where their specialty is preserving old buildings and restoring them back to their glory using today's technology. This book is all about Sam and he has many struggles in his everyday life. He was born early and had many health problems from the start, he has diabetes, and is allergic to everything and must eat organic and healthy all the time. He's not only known for his amazing drawings, but that he can read women better than his blue line drawings, and he sleeps around but you only ever get one chance, then he moves on. HE is by far My Favorite so far! In this book he meets Tiel Desai in an elevator when they get stuck for more than eight hours while the city of Boston has a major power outage during the hottest Memorial Day weekend on record. Tiel lives in a building that has a condo for sale, that Sam is interested in buying, he's waited for over four hours for Shannon, and he's pissed she's not answering her phone and he's more than annoyed. But he's slightly interested in the women waiting for the elevator, and gets on when the doors open. While they wait he learns she's Conservatory trained violinist and a student at Berklee. He also learns she knows all about the diabetic insulin pump, because last summer she worked at a music camp, and all the counselors had to learn how to deal with them. Sam is very self conscience of his meter, and feels it's personnel and she's extremely digit you and is constantly humming and tapping and basically driving him nuts. But after the elevator plunges two more times they are final rescued, and since they hit it off in the elevator, they went out to eat. Read this book and laugh, cry, sigh, shake your head at Sam & Tiel! This is an amazing series I've read books 1,2 & 3 and can't wait to read 4 & 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. ( )

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. ( )