Moorewood Family Rules

Moorewood Family Rules

HelenKay Dimon

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Knives Out  and  Ocean’s 8  meets  The Nest  in this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning author HelenKay Dimon, about a woman who returns home from prison to her dysfunctional con artist family and tries to get them to go legit. One day a con man met an heiress, wooed her, married her, had two kids…and kept on conning. Jillian Moorewood is the oldest child from that meet-cute-gone-wrong marriage. The stable one. The sensible and dependable one. The one who protects and fixes. The one who went to prison to save their sorry butts. Now, thirty-nine months later, she’s out and she’s more than a little pissed. Finally home she finds the scheming clan in full family fleecing mode. They all claim they didn’t  really  agree to Jillian’s previous go-legit-or-else ultimatum before she went away. They viewed it as a “suggestion” then ignored it. So, business as usual. But Jillian is done with the lies and fakery. She demands the whole messed-up crew clean up its act, and this time she’s not kidding—she has the leverage to make it happen. Problem is, her life is in shambles, but with the help of a great aunt (crooked but loveable), a bodyguard (who is a nice surprise after three years in prison), and a few allies (all working undercover), Jillian starts to put her   life back together. She kicks out a few mooching relatives living under her roof, sets limits on everyone’s access to the money, ducks from their various attacks, and sees if that bodyguard is maybe interested in sticking around for a while. For the first time, she’s Jillian Moorewood, her own woman, and she’s ready to figure out who she is. 


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  • carolineslibrary
    Dec 17, 2024
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    Moorewood Family Rules was such a fun read! I usually don't enjoy third person books, but I really loved the writing in this book. I loved following Jillian and Beck. The plot twists throughout the book kept me on my toes. Obviously I was getting very frustrated with the Moorewood family, but ended up loving a lot of them towards the end (not Jay or Astrid though). Overall, this was such a good and fun read that I thoroughly enjoyed. I found the plot fun, and loved that we got a touch of romance in there as well as the mystery aspects. Such an enjoyable read.

    Huge thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

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  • Dec 17, 2024
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    This book sounds like so much fun, and it is just so...flat. One of my biggest disappointments of the year. It really doesn't match the marketing - doesn't give much of Knives Out or Ocean's 8, with more of a focus on character and family dynamics than any kind of mystery or thriller. I wouldn't even mind that so much if it was done well, but I don't care about any of the characters or their relationships with one another, and the prose is just unappealing and dull to me. Alas for my Knives Out-comped dreams and the wasted potential!

    Thanks to Avon for the advance review copy.

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  • ALReads
    Mar 09, 2025
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    Beck definitely jams out to “Bodyguard” from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album.

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