A Beautiful Funeral (Maddox Brothers, #5)

by Jamie McGuire

[Cocktails and Books]

3.5 Cocktails

I've enjoyed the Maddox brothers series and what they've gone through to find their HEA. I wasn't sure what I was expecting with this book, but I knew there must be some kind of series closure. We got closure, but to me it wasn't satisfying.

Thomas and Travis' big secrets suddenly hit a little too close to home, forcing unimaginable decisions and the Maddox clan to circle the wagons. But all the lies and who knew start to unravel this closely knit family. And these Maddox men were already hanging on, some by a very thin thread, in their own families, making this drama one more thing they didn't really need.

While the author brought back characters that tied all the books together, I felt like they were too many things left unresolved when we got to the final page. Taylor and Falyn were having issues...did they resolve them? Trent and Cami were trying for family...did that ever happen for them? Where Travis and Thomas able to put this case behind them and have "normal" lives as they continued with the FBI? Yes, the beautiful funeral pulled the Maddox's back together, but what of all the other issues that surfaced?

If you're a Jamie McGuire fan, this will undoubtedly be on your must read list. It was a satisfying ending to the series, but I needed a little more reassurance that as time passed these brothers did just as Jim instructed.