I loved reading Necessary Restorations (The Walsh Series Book 3), all about Sam Walsh the fourth youngest in the Walsh clan. Their are six Walsh siblings the four boys are Architectures, three went to Cornell and the second youngest went to RISD. The two girls are Shannon she is a realtor & a lawyer, she went to school at Cornell and the youngest Erin is a Geologist, she went to school in Hawaii and studies volcano's all over the world. The five oldest siblings are all in business together, they own an Preservation Architecture firm where their specialty is preserving old buildings and restoring them back to their glory using today's technology. This book is all about Sam and he has many struggles in his everyday life. He was born early and had many health problems from the start, he has diabetes, and is allergic to everything and must eat organic and healthy all the time. He's not only known for his amazing drawings, but that he can read women better than his blue line drawings, and he sleeps around but you only ever get one chance, then he moves on. HE is by far My Favorite so far! In this book he meets Tiel Desai in an elevator when they get stuck for more than eight hours while the city of Boston has a major power outage during the hottest Memorial Day weekend on record. Tiel lives in a building that has a condo for sale, that Sam is interested in buying, he's waited for over four hours for Shannon, and he's pissed she's not answering her phone and he's more than annoyed. But he's slightly interested in the women waiting for the elevator, and gets on when the doors open. While they wait he learns she's Conservatory trained violinist and a student at Berklee. He also learns she knows all about the diabetic insulin pump, because last summer she worked at a music camp, and all the counselors had to learn how to deal with them. Sam is very self conscience of his meter, and feels it's personnel and she's extremely digit you and is constantly humming and tapping and basically driving him nuts. But after the elevator plunges two more times they are final rescued, and since they hit it off in the elevator, they went out to eat. Read this book and laugh, cry, sigh, shake your head at Sam & Tiel! This is an amazing series I've read books 1,2 & 3 and can't wait to read 4 & 5.

I didn't actually really love Sam? I liked the relationship and how it developed and that it was not insta-love, that they took the time to be friends first, but also the entire plot hangs on miscommunication. They both think the other person isn't interested so they each pretend to not be interested... it was a lot of frustrated face-palming.
It was somewhat steamy, once they finally got there, a little heavy on the dominant side but alright.
Sam was frustrating to me--he was described as so preppy but then was so chill and best friend-y and then so Dom and then lumberjack? He seemed to get mad and throw tiny tantrums.
I was actually pleasantly surprised to have a main character who had family problems and that they weren't completely resolved by the end of the book. While I would have liked more demonstration of the family's suckiness, I liked the reality of a character who had personal, ongoing, not-easily-resolved family issues.