I began reading Kimberley Chamber's back in 2010 and was blown away. She became a firm favourite of mine and I consistently read and fell in love with all her books. However, it's been a few years and I decided to make a start with The Family Man. First off her writing skill is still just as good and her chapters and storylines are full of all the wronguns you could possibly think of. However, for some reason I just didn't like Kenny Boyd our lead character at all. He has NO redeeming features and frankly the more of the Bond Family I read about the less I liked them. Kenny the main man, his wife Sharon, his kids Donny and Sherry....literally all of them. I just didn't like them at all and this kind of put a bit of a dampner on this book.

I don't know whether this is because she has done something similar in style before with The Butlers, but I just didn't gel with any of them. The story itself still pulled me in right enough but there were times I just got irritated. Another thing I noticed which was strange was that on a few chapters KC would end it by stating the obvious and it grated on me, Finishing a chapter by saying somehting like
What had he got himself into? or little did he know...

It may seem like I am being harsh with this review but in all honesty my standards are pretty high with KC as she has been producing cracking books for a lot of years now. This latest one to me just felt a bit off. I admit, even aside from the things I disliked I still read it in 2 days and went straight onto the next book to find out what happens next. Still a fabulous author and one I will continue to read, but for me this book just hit the mark.

I knew nothing about Kimberley Chambers and her previous novels before reading this book so it was a bit of a surprise. This is cleverly plotted family history.
The characters are all stereo-types. The stories and speech seem like a mash-up of soap opera and various Guy Ritchie films and don’t get me started on the way the Traveller community was portrayed !!