Book Review: Rocky Road by Becky Wade

Suspense and humor make this a page turner that will capture your heart and emotions.

​I am enjoying this series so much! Book one, we got to know two of the three brothers, the oldest more than the middle with just a mention of the youngest. In this book, we get to know the middle brother AND the youngest brother just a bit. The story goes into some detail with the two older brothers' mom in both books. The youngest brother has a different mom. We meet the dad of all three boys in both books but don't get anything from his POV. 

Jude is an FBI agent and such a stickler for the rules and details. Playing it by the book in every way he can. He does not like breaking rules, even in everyday life. When it comes to family, he is there for them any way he can be. They mean everything to him. We saw that in book one, as well. 

Gemma and her family are such a hoot! There are four generations of women that we get to see most with a few other people from the family here and there. I loved getting to see the dynamics of those women. There ended up being a mystery thrown in alongside the main storyline that had to do with the matriarch of the family, Gemma's great grandmother, Gracie. It was just enough of a mystery to keep me reading to find out how it unfolded.

The main storyline was with Jude and Gemma working on a case together, her as a cooperating witness. Her great grandfather came from a family with a 400-year-old perfume recipe and when he moved to American, he gave up his claim to that heritage. He chose the love of a woman over that. One of Gemma distant cousins, Cedric was involved in illegal activities, and they needed her help catching him. The only reason she chose to help was because he was doing things that went against her family's standards and beliefs. He had caused her father to be put in prison for working with him and instead of her cousin getting caught, her father took the fall. 

Gemma and Jude had to pretend to be dating to get close to her cousin. The lines of pretend and reality became hard to determine quite quickly. Gemma took it as playing a part, like in a movie or a play. She went all out to make sure they didn't leave any detail out. He fought it for a short time but felt she had a point that they needed to know things about each other, so it didn't look forced and unnatural when they were around her cousin and his henchman, Victor. That situation made me nervous because I didn't know just how dangerous it was going to get. I knew that Cedric wasn't beyond playing dirty and getting what he wanted any way he could. Victor sounded worse than Cedric, so I knew it could get very dicey. 

She doesn't introduce her boyfriends to her family. She seems to end her relationships before they get serious. At the start of this book, she has a long-distance boyfriend. They hardly see each other and there really is no connection there. She ends up ending things with him because she is starting to have feelings for Jude and the "fake boyfriend" seems more real than her real boyfriend. 

There were a couple of quotes that stuck out to me.

"You'd think, once you find the right person, that the road to happiness would be straight. For me, it wasn't. But I can tell you that it was worth all the stress it cost me." 


"Love the people in your life with all that you have and all that you are. Show them grace. Forgive." 


Check out the authors website for more information about her books: ​BeckyWade.com