Best of 2019: Beard Necessities (Winston Brothers #7) by Penny Reid
A Beautiful Brilliant Ending to the Winston Brothers Series
My rating: Five Stars
Billy Winston and Scarlett St. Claire’s story has been a highly anticipated one since the first book in the series and it certainly doesn’t disappoint!
Their beautiful, angst-filled love story (although less angst-filled than must-read prequel Beard with Me!) travels from Tennessee to romantic Italy and back again in this series send-off.
Every family member plays a part in trying to bring these two together finally! This book is filled with the usual Winston family humor, love, craziness and Cletus’ marvellous machinations.
Billy and Scarlet (Claire) need to get out of their own way and defeat the ghosts of their pasts and the demons of the present (their fathers’ and the Iron Wraiths’). With a lot of help, the backdrop of beautiful Tuscany and courage, can they move on?
The epilogue is especially sweet as we get a glimpse of the future family members having fun at a special family camping trip.
Thank you Penny Reid for taking us on this great journey with this wonderful family! I wish it never had to end. I’d want to be adopted by the Winstons except I think I’ll wait until those Iron Wraiths are totally wiped out. <3
Quotables:
“If you give Cletus an inch, he’ll take a light-year.”
“I promise, if you’ll have me, I’ll sing with you whenever or wherever you want. But only with you, Scarlet. I only want to sing with you.”
A Final word from Cletus: “It’s on like a hippy bong.” “Pardon?” “It’s on like a twelve-year-old mowing the lawn.” “Are you—” “It’s on like a prawn who yawns at dawn.” Saying nothing, since he was in a mood to interrupt, I scowled at my brother. He scowled back. I opened my mouth, intending to ask if he was finished. He held up a finger. “I got one more. It’s on like a Shaun White wearing a thong in the Yukon. Okay, go ahead.”
Winston Brothers Reading Order
0.5 – Beauty and the Mustache
1 – Truth or Beard
2 – Grin & Beard It
3 – Beard Science
4 – Beard in Mind
4.5 – Beard in Hiding
5 – Dr. Strange Beard
6 – Beard With Me
7 – Beard Necessities
For more by Penny Reid, please see my reviews of Marriage and Murder and Totally Folked. Beard Necessities (Winston Brothers #7) by Penny Reid is such a great book and a fitting end to the series. I hope you love it as much as I did.