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Brannon Brothers #3
Finding Family
Finding Family by Gina Wilkins released on Mar 25, 2008 is available now for purchase.
213 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 2008
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Gina Wilkins
380 books84 followersGina is known as: Gina Ferris, Gina Ferris Wilkins and Gina Wilkins. If looking for a specific book please check all names.
Gina Wilkins sold her first book to Harlequin in 1987, and has been writing full-time ever since, publishing more than 90 books for Harlequin/Silhouette. Her books are translated into 20 languages. A lifelong resident of central Arkansas, she attended Arkansas State University, obtaining a degree in journalism. She pursued careers in advertising and human resource development before achieving her lifelong goal of becoming a published writer. The bestselling author is a four-time winner of the prestigious Maggie Award for Excellence sponsored by the Georgia Romance Writers, and has won several awards from the reviewers of Romantic Times magazine. She was a recent nominee for a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times.
A member of Romance Writers of America, Diamond State Romance Authors and Novelists, Inc., she is a past president of Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas. She is a frequent speaker at writers’ conferences, civic organizations and in middle and senior high schools, where she focuses on literacy and goal setting.
Gina and John, her husband of more than 30 years, have raised three “extraordinary” children, two daughters and a son, all pursuing careers in science and medicine.
Gina Wilkins sold her first book to Harlequin in 1987, and has been writing full-time ever since, publishing more than 90 books for Harlequin/Silhouette. Her books are translated into 20 languages. A lifelong resident of central Arkansas, she attended Arkansas State University, obtaining a degree in journalism. She pursued careers in advertising and human resource development before achieving her lifelong goal of becoming a published writer. The bestselling author is a four-time winner of the prestigious Maggie Award for Excellence sponsored by the Georgia Romance Writers, and has won several awards from the reviewers of Romantic Times magazine. She was a recent nominee for a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times.
A member of Romance Writers of America, Diamond State Romance Authors and Novelists, Inc., she is a past president of Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas. She is a frequent speaker at writers’ conferences, civic organizations and in middle and senior high schools, where she focuses on literacy and goal setting.
Gina and John, her husband of more than 30 years, have raised three “extraordinary” children, two daughters and a son, all pursuing careers in science and medicine.
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August 3, 2008
If it weren't for the fact that this book wrapped up the storyline of the long-missing-now-found Brannon child, I'm not sure I'd have particularly liked this book. But luckily, it did have that storyline, so it was worth reading just for that.
This book connects to (at least) 2 other books by Wilkins in which you meet the Brannon family, who 30 years earlier supposedly lost young Kyle Brannon and his nanny in a flash flood. In reality, Kyle had been kidnapped and raised by their nanny as if he were her own and renamed Mark. In the last book, Ethan Brannon found Mark and brought up the issue of whether Dr. Mark Thomas was really Kyle Brannon. This book continues that storyline and settles the issue of the missing Brannon child.
I wanted to read this book simply to know how things worked out between Mark and the Brannons. It's a really interesting storyline and I like stories where missing relatives and friends are reunited. So that part of the story worked well for me - Mark's conflicted feelings, his family's overwhelming joy, etc.
It was the romance between Mark and Rachel that lacked in this book, though. I never really felt it. At all. Sure there was some chemistry, but they mostly just seemed like 2 people who spent a lot of time together decorating his house (she was a decorator) and slept together now and then. Less than half way through the book, Mark is thinking about how he's falling hard for her, and I'm thinking, yeah, okay, if you say so.
Another negative was that I didn't exactly like Rachel, the heroine, all that much. She was a total pushover who let her family and ex-husband walk all over her. Sure that was part of the story - her dealing with those issues - but it got really irritating to read when every single scene she was in involved someone calling her and whining. She just wasn't the kind of heroine I like to read about.
I did like that the author used POV scenes with Ethan in this book for the parts where he dealt with finding Mark and then telling his family. Usually you don't find POVs from secondary characters in short romances like this, but they were necessary. The book would have really lacked something if those had been left out.
I have the next book in this unofficial series, which features Rachel's sister, Dani. I can't say I'm all that excited to read it considering Dani comes off as completely TSTL in this book, but I'll read it eventually.
Despite the fact that the romance angle didn't do it for me in this book, it's worth reading simply for Mark's story and to see the Brannon family all back together.
This book connects to (at least) 2 other books by Wilkins in which you meet the Brannon family, who 30 years earlier supposedly lost young Kyle Brannon and his nanny in a flash flood. In reality, Kyle had been kidnapped and raised by their nanny as if he were her own and renamed Mark. In the last book, Ethan Brannon found Mark and brought up the issue of whether Dr. Mark Thomas was really Kyle Brannon. This book continues that storyline and settles the issue of the missing Brannon child.
I wanted to read this book simply to know how things worked out between Mark and the Brannons. It's a really interesting storyline and I like stories where missing relatives and friends are reunited. So that part of the story worked well for me - Mark's conflicted feelings, his family's overwhelming joy, etc.
It was the romance between Mark and Rachel that lacked in this book, though. I never really felt it. At all. Sure there was some chemistry, but they mostly just seemed like 2 people who spent a lot of time together decorating his house (she was a decorator) and slept together now and then. Less than half way through the book, Mark is thinking about how he's falling hard for her, and I'm thinking, yeah, okay, if you say so.
Another negative was that I didn't exactly like Rachel, the heroine, all that much. She was a total pushover who let her family and ex-husband walk all over her. Sure that was part of the story - her dealing with those issues - but it got really irritating to read when every single scene she was in involved someone calling her and whining. She just wasn't the kind of heroine I like to read about.
I did like that the author used POV scenes with Ethan in this book for the parts where he dealt with finding Mark and then telling his family. Usually you don't find POVs from secondary characters in short romances like this, but they were necessary. The book would have really lacked something if those had been left out.
I have the next book in this unofficial series, which features Rachel's sister, Dani. I can't say I'm all that excited to read it considering Dani comes off as completely TSTL in this book, but I'll read it eventually.
Despite the fact that the romance angle didn't do it for me in this book, it's worth reading simply for Mark's story and to see the Brannon family all back together.
January 18, 2026
muy romantica
August 20, 2017
Luckily it was a library book. At 50 percent I wanted to DNF but decided to skim to the end.
Dani the sister was a stupid b!tch, the bro a wimp. And the heroine was TSTL. Always runnung off to rescue those weaker n spoilt.
It was painful watching the heroine Rachel rushing off to rescue her family and even ex-husband. The ex and his new wife (with whom he cheated on Rachel) still went to her for free help at the restaurant and mediate their petty squabbles was just un un unbelievable.
This over shadowed the main plot of Mark finding out the truth of his birthright and old/new family.
Dani the sister was a stupid b!tch, the bro a wimp. And the heroine was TSTL. Always runnung off to rescue those weaker n spoilt.
It was painful watching the heroine Rachel rushing off to rescue her family and even ex-husband. The ex and his new wife (with whom he cheated on Rachel) still went to her for free help at the restaurant and mediate their petty squabbles was just un un unbelievable.
This over shadowed the main plot of Mark finding out the truth of his birthright and old/new family.
April 23, 2020
SSE #1892
July 26, 2015
Enjoyable read. Bogged down for me in the middle.
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