Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home.
It’s been years since the fragmented Mayweather clan was all in one place, but the engagement of Addison and Mason’s mom to the dad of their future stepbrother, Theo, brings the whole family to sunny Cancún, Mexico, for winter break. Add cousin Natalia to the mix, and it doesn’t take long for tempers to fray and tensions to rise. A week of forced family “fun” reveals that everyone has something to hide, and as secrets bubble to the surface, no one is safe from the fallout. By the end of the week, one member of the reunion party will be dead—and everyone’s a suspect.
The peacekeeper: Addison needs a better hiding place.
The outsider: Theo just wants to mend fences.
The romantic: Natalia doesn’t want to talk about the past.
The hothead: Mason needs to keep his temper under control.
It started as a week in paradise meant to bring them together. But the Mayweathers are about to learn the hard way that family bonding can be deadly.
My Rating: 4/5 Stars
My Thoughts:
Kit Frick quickly became one of my go-to YA thriller authors, having loved her 2022 release, Very Bad People, and her popular novel, I Killed Zoe Spanos. I was so excited then to read an early copy of her 2023 release, The Reunion.
The Reunion is set during a family vacation at a Cancún resort, where all the teens (& some of the adults) have secrets to hide. The Mayweather family have been gifted a family vacation from their wealthy grandfather & grandmother in honor of Mason & Addison’s mom and Theo’s dad’s engagement. Mason and Addison used to be best friends with their cousin, Natalia, until the three discovered something that they shouldn’t have and Natalia moved across the country. Theo wants to get along with the Mayweathers for his father’s sake, but Addison and Mason aren’t so approving of their soon-to-be stepbrother. The novel transitions between the four teens’ perspectives during the vacation and present day emails, police interviews, and more when one of the Mayweathers is found dead at the end of the trip.
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