This was a quick read for me. I read about half of it in the car I couldn't put it down. It was over the top in the best ways. I know its compared to knives out and I don't agree with that.

Its about the Moorewood Family and Jillian whos home from being in prison for the last 39 months for fraud from the FBI. here's the thing her whole dads side of the family are con artists steeling and conning people out of money. Jillian is not she told them they had to go the straight and narrow since she holds her moms inheritance the only problem they don't want to and someone turned her in the the FBI so the fact she's home early is a SHOCK to her family and they aren't happy to see her.

Not only does she come home set on teaching them a lesson but she's also going to turn things upside down. They have no idea what she has planned.

But they wont go down without a fight and they go from putting bugs into her room to listen to trying to get ride of her any way possible. Will she ruin the current scores they have going on? They can't risk that. Jillian has to go to extremes to get a body guard who sees just how crazy the family is.

This was a fun read from all the sarcasm, banter, and family drama with a little romance it was a fast pace read.

Thank you NetGalley for the E-Arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

2.5 ⭐️ The premise of this book and the synopsis had me clamoring for this book but I found it to fall flat for me unfortunately. When I saw the synopsis say it was Knives Out meets Oceans 11 I was expecting a fast paced and action pact book with lots of shenanigans but that wasn’t what was delivered.

Jillian Moorewood is the oldest child of an extended family of con artists. She is 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. 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.

I enjoyed the beginning of this book a lot but my excitement tapered off around 35%. The pacing was a big issue for me. We got to much repetitive background story when we should have been getting more action. I liked the bodyguard romance aspect of this story.. I wish we got more romance or more thriller, muster action it wasn’t enough of anything. I also didn’t really connect with the family at all they had no depth to them and I was really looking forward to getting to know a crazy, con artist family!

Overall this was an ok read I think other people might enjoy it more than I did! Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Read if you like:
🔪 Knife’s out
🏦 Ocean’s Movies
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Dysfunctional Families
😂 Witty Humor
❤️ Romance Vibes

This one truly more than anything is a story about a dysfunctional family and their messes and interactions. It has a little bit of everything.

I haven’t seen knives out but that is what this one is compared to so I’ll trust the comparison there.

If you are looking for a little bit of everything surrounding a dysfunctional family, I think that this general fiction type story would be one that you would enjoy as it was light, fast paced, and enjoyable to read as the content kept me hooked!

Thank you to the publisher for my ARC in exchange for my review!

Holy sh*t this book was so good! Smart, sexy, sassy, stylish… I was a little dubious of the claim it was Ocean’s 8 Knives Out/The Nest, but now I realize that’s the actual best way to describe it. Recently released white collar criminal Jillian Moorewood, who only went to jail to protect her family, gets out to find her family has kept carrying on with their scheming, conning ways. Despite the agreement they made to go legit while she takes the fall for them. Now the ill-gotten family fortune is in play… Jillian controls it and it’s an understatement to say she’s a bit miffed they didn’t hold up their end of the bargain. Now she’s trying to lay down the law while all the members of this dysfunctional family paint targets on her back. Enter a good-looking, smart bodyguard… who makes Jillian think that maybe there is more to love than just the con. But she’s gonna have to live through the attempts by various family members first.

Wow! I’m not sure where to start my review, but I haven’t read a book like this before. Total dysfunctional and hot mess characters made for a quick an interesting read. Family rivalries, thievery, love, and everything in between. This book has it all. It’s best to go in with no expectations for I’m not sure how to properly capture a book like this.

4-4 1/2 stars.

LOVED.

Imagine an entire family of con artists enjoying a massive soirée when a helicopter lands in the middle of the party with guess who - cousin Jillian Moorewood. Where has she actually been the past three years? Why is her entire family surprised by her arrival? And why does she look so damn pleased with herself??

This reads like Schitt’s Creek to me. Every line a zinger, ever family member absolutely nuts in their own right. Aunt Patricia and her cheese sticks always lurking. Astrid and her thinly veiled attempts at murder. Anika trying to con poor Harry into splitting his millions with her. Uncle Jay acting as if nothing is wrong. Slimy ex Greg hanging around her quiet and elusive sister Emma. Can she trust ANY of them?

I had no idea there would be a bodyguard trope and was there for all it. Hel-lo Beck.

Comes out 4/25. Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Jillian Moorewood makes a dramatic reappearance after spending three years in prison as a result of taking the fall for her con artist grifter family. She is ready to clean house, literally and figuratively, and once she begins to lay down the ground rules, she soon finds herself the target of death threats so she hires a body guard, who comes with his own set of benefits.
I wanted to like this more than I did. I didn’t connect with any of the characters and the plot dragged along despite the premise being about a family of con artists getting their what’s owed them and even the developing romance didn’t give me enough of a hook to keep me engaged.
Think of it as an Ocean’s eleven type of situation but minus any major action or characters that you want to root for.
Nothing deep. Not terrible. Just bit my fav by this author.
Thanks to Avon Books and NetGalley for this eArc in exchange for my review.

The daughter of an heiress and a con man, Jillian went to prison for three years to protect her family. Now that she's been released, she finds them still up to their same thieving tricks. Worse, one of them is out to get her—if only she knew which one. Can her hunky new bodyguard help her sort out her messy life?

This book is a fun, fast-paced romp. I'd describe it as women's fiction with a romance subplot. With its quirky characters and family dysfunction, it should appeal to fans of rom com, chick lit, and cozy mystery. Darkly humorous, edgy, and smart, it's a pleasure to read.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

Thank you to Avon Books and NetGalley for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

The book revolves around Jillian Moorewood, heiress to her mom's fortune, who returns home from prison to her con artist family. She's trying to make them stop conning, and go legit, but they're stuck in their ways and trying to kill her for her fortune. This family drama is full of twists and turns. There is plenty of action going on.

This was a good read, the first reading from this author HelenKay Dimon. Thank you.

What if your life was in your family's hands? Would you feel safe and secure?
Jillian Moorewood would not.

Jillian returns home to her family to find out the truth and deliver some ultimatums! She is not taking any nonsense from her family anymore. But, they are not so quick to follow the rules. In fact, Jillian needs to watch her back, literally, around her eccentric family. Trust is not easily earned.

This book was a fun tale of lies, secrets, family connections, and starting over. I laughed quite a bit. I put pieces together and solved some of the book's mysteries, which I felt weren't hidden and easy to figure out. Still fun to see how it all came together!

Jillian Moorewood is out of prison and makes a entrance by helicopter at her Rhode Island beach estate where her uncle, twin cousins, and elderly aunt live. Jillian's reunification with her family is bumpy because she knows one of them turned her in for fraud in order to protect the rest of the Mooreheads and their thieving ways. This funny, silly novel outlines the rules the family lives by, and how Jillian claims honest ownership of the property and millions left to her by her mother. Moorehead Family Rules is a great escape read and will even be a better movie about wealthy criminals who will steal the diamond bracelet off your arm.

I love a good heist/con story and while this one had a great premise it didn’t quite pack the punch I was looking for. Jillian just spent 39 months in prison to protect her family of con artists from the same fate. Now she’s out and she’s determined to find out who turned her in and to exact her well throughout plan of revenge. The pacing of this story could have moved quicker and I think it would have helped keep me more focused with the storyline. The side storyline with Jillian and Beck wasn’t all that necessary to the overall plot and it felt a little rushed. I also think there was more subplots that could have been explored/acknowledged that could have given more insight to the family dynamics.

Overall, I certainly enjoyed parts of the story but it wasn’t quite what I thought it would have been based on the synopsis. I guess I was looking for a little more grit/danger with a revenge story and this just seems a little bland. I did like the multiple POVs throughout that helped get the other side of the story and I will say the cover is definitely on point.


Thank you publishers and @netgalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

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.

This book hit all the right spots for me. Dysfunctional family? Check. Wacky characters? Check. Engaging story and plotline? Check. Witty banter? Check.

Jillian Moorewood, the FMC, has just returned home to her family's home after a thirty nine month prison sentence, only to discover that family is continuing to do the one thing she clearly told them not to do: con everyone and anyone. Jillian belongs to the notorious Moorewood family, grifters and con artists who will do anything to keep finding ways to help people "misplace" family valuables such as artwork and jewelry. But Jillian is determined to make them go legitimate.

Part of what I loved so much about this book was the premise and how the author accomplishes that premise. She makes the whole book fun and funny, engaging in a way that is snarky and doesn't take itself too seriously. The characters are great, each different in their own way. She does a great job at differentiating the characters, even though there are a good chunk at first. The dysfunction is maddening, but interesting and she incorporates family drama and family dynamics without hashing out too much backstory, so the pace of the story was well done. She even manages to throw romance and mystery into the mix. The way she balances all of these ideas flawlessly, while still being funny, made me want to keep turning the page.

While genre wise this is hard to place, I will echo what other people are saying: this is not an Ocean's 8/Knives Out book and I don't think that comparison is accurate. I think it is more of a book that celebrates the tropes of character driven, family drama , but with a fun twist of them being a crime family and snarky with one another. So if you are reading this, please do not think that it is what it is not. But it is still wonderful and amazing in it's own right.

Overall, if you like wacky characters, fun banter, light reads, a tad of mystery and romance, and dysfunctional families. this is the book for you.

Thank you to Avon Books and NetGalley for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

When I read that Moorewood Family Rules was about a family that got obscenely rich by being a group of con artists, I had to read it. As a huge fan of Leverage and White Collar on TV, my curious nature piqued at the publisher's description.

An opulent mansion. Stolen paintings. Family secrets for generations. The Moorewood family has it all. Unfortunately, one of the two family members trying to make their fortune legitimate, Jillian, was set up to take the fall when the FBI came around. The book begins with Jillian making a grand entrance as soon as she is released from prison early. Who was the one to betray the family and give up Jillian to the feds? That's the only real mystery here and it has a satisfying explanation.

The rest is hilariously spun family drama. Jillian is awkward as hell since coming out of prison. The family stalwart keeper of operations, Kelby, is one of the only outsiders to breach their boundaries. He keeps his loyalties with Jillian who is now in charge of the family trust. Kelby hires a bodyguard for Jillian because someone under her roof is trying to kill her (a little mystery there, but you can easily figure it out once you nail down the personalities). This bodyguard, Beck is the romantic hero of classic Romancelandia combined with Action-Adventure tales. We don't know how Beck does his job of knowing literally everything about everyone in the Moorewood family and we don't care. Readers know he's there to keep poor Jillian safe and eventually land in bed with her. He fits the role perfectly.

Though Jillian is in her 30's, I could not help but envision her clumsiness, strength, self-doubt, and awkwardness with Beck as anyone other than Sandra Bullock (PS - watch The Lost City!). Jillian's nervousness around Beck is brilliant comic relief. Author HelenKay Dimon is known for romance books, but she could definitely pen a great script for Bullock.

There isn't much to say except I thoroughly enjoyed Moorewood Family Rules. It's a funny, witty, and classic wealth-fantasy with a welcoming romance and satisfying ending for all the characters—even that cheeky old Aunt Patricia who keeps string cheese in her bra.

Rating: 5 stars

I saw this marketed as a Knives Out meets Ocean 11 type of situation and I feel like neither of those are an accurate description of this book.

I felt like there was way too much going on that didn't properly get fleshed out.

The mystery and romance elements weren't even the focal point of the story. It was more about the main character finding herself, which is fine--just not what I was looking for. This story may work better for a different kind of reader.

Thank you to Netgalley for my arc.

Jillian Moorewood has just been released from prison and is heading home to her con-artist family and the reason why she was in prison. While she was in prison they were supposed to go straight, only they didn't. Jillian is going back to make sure that they do and she has the means and the motivation to get it done.

Marketed as a Knives Out/Ocean's 8 meets The Nest, the story didn't match the marketing. I was expecting more mystery and action than there was. It was more family dynamics and unfortunately the family dynamics weren't all that interesting. There were a few characters that were really not needed as they didn't bring anything to the family situation. This is not a bad book - it just didn't meet the expectations.

I think the Marketing team needs to be talked to about how they are promoting this book. Knives out and Oceans 11 is a VERY specific genre and this book was not that. The premise of this book had me excited, however the execution and the story itself fell a little flat.

This is much more of a story family drama novel, focusing on figuring out your place in your family and how to let up control and be able to live your own life.

I disliked how Anika's random POV that was added to the story. Beck seemed like he was not fully flushed out as a character and the romance did not feel organic.

Overall this was just an okay book. But marketing did it a disservice

* I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley. Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this book. All thoughts are my own.

This book was off to such an interesting start and I was really excited to see how it would go. I wish the author included more heist or moments of the Moorewoods trying to do something to Jillian, but that never happened. It was just way to much family drama. This book just didn’t end up wowing me. I did like the family rules with every chapter though. Also, I’m a huge romance fan but there wasn’t enough of a connection between Jillian and Beck for it to be worth including in this story.

Probably wouldn’t recommend.

Moorewood Family Rules tells the story of Jillian, a young woman who has just been released from prison. Jillian’s family is made up of grifters aka conmen. Jillian had agreed to take the fall for her family and serve time in prison if her family would forgo crime and when she is release from prison she finds out that they have not held up their end of the deal.
Unfortunately while this books premise sounded interesting, none of the characters in the book were likable enough to keep me going. By 50% the romance sub plot had barely been introduced and I did not care for or about any of the characters in this book.
While I appreciate the opportunity to read and review this book from NetGalley and Harper Voyager/Avon I cannot recommend this book and can only give it 2 stars.