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Review: The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward



Blurb from Goodreads:
When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she was a single mother who meant everything to them. When she wins the cruise, the family packs all their baggage--literal and figurative--and spends ten days traveling from sun-drenched Athens through glorious Rome to tapas-laden Barcelona on an over-the-top cruise ship, the Splendido Marveloso. As lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried secrets are revealed, and the Perkins family is forced to confront the defining choices in their lives. Can four lost adults find the peace they've been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back to each other?

In the vein of The Nest and The Vacationers, Ward has created a delicious and intelligent novel about the courage it takes to reveal our true selves, the pleasures and perils of family, and how we navigate the seas of adulthood to cruise--we can only hope--toward joy.
My Review:
 
This was honestly pretty sad -- I don't think I would even use dysfunctional to describe this family, more like terribly sad. It was an interesting premise but there was a lot left unsaid that I think could have provided a richness.  Don't let the cheery cover fool you -- if you want to read something with humans that are are all at their rock bottom, then you may enjoy this one.  The writing is fine and the travel was interesting but I definitely felt malaise when finishing this book rather than anything good.

The Jetsetters comes out soon on March 5, 2020 and you can purchase HERE.  
"Who's talking about secrets?" said Regan, approaching. Matt followed few feet behind her, wearing a button-down shirt, pale pink shorts, and loafers. Cord felt a seething anger toward his brother-in-law, toward all the straight Southern men he'd known who thought the world was their oyster. Sometimes, he wondered what it would be like to be one of these men. On the outside, he looked like them, but under the skin, he knew he couldn't be more different.

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