All Are Welcome

Read my full review here: https://literaryquicksand.com/2021/08/book-review-all-are-welcome-by-liz-parker/

I had some mixed feelings about this book, but overall rated it pretty highly in the end!

Alright, where do I start with this book? Haha there was a lot going on!

Let's start with Tiny and Caroline's relationship. There are seeds of doubt sown pretty much immediately for the reader to wonder why they're getting married, because there are clearly some issues. This was one of the parts of the story I wasn't sure if I liked. It was so immediate that we see that this whole wedding thing probably isn't going to end well.

Tiny and Caroline's families are both flawed in many ways. There's a lot of emotional distance, heavy drinking, and uncertainty about Tiny's choice to marry another woman. It was honestly a little hard to read at times, because of the hemophobia from Tiny's brother and weird, closeted feelings from her father. I really don't doubt though that those tough situations exist in real life, so it made sense to me to include it in the book.

Every character in this book was very flawed in some way, which ended up making it...well, enjoyable. It was a massive train wreck that you could see coming, although there were a few surprises for me that I didn't predict. It's one of those stories where everything gets worse and worse, until finally there's some sort of moment of reckoning.