Cute but completely unnecessary. I found this to be a forced imitation of the first one. It still had the warm fuzzy energy and the cute dialogue of the first, and I did enjoy revisiting these characters, but swapping out the “Guncle rules” to the “love languages” thing just felt like the author didn’t know what to write so just wrote a different version of the first one.

I also thought the whole conflict of Maisie wanting Patrick to stop the wedding was so wildly strange I had a hard time staying the story. The adults in this book were not adulting, what should have just been an honest conversation between parent and children WELL before a wedding became a messy way to have this book end with a Patrick wedding (which also didn’t really make sense to me). I also didn’t care for how he talked about Lesbians, I know it was supposed to be like a “sibling rivalry” dynamic that Patrick kind of explains at the end, but it mostly came off as stereotyping and bias, which again took me out of the book.

While this was still fun and an easy summer read, I just found this to be a pale imitation of the first that definitely felt like more of a cash grab than an honest attempt at a book.