3.41k reviews for:

The Guncle Abroad

Steven Rowley

3.94 AVERAGE

laura_partridge's review against another edition

5.0

---

I hope they make this into a movie solely for the Sound of Music improv musical number they do.

amytir's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

rosierivets's review against another edition

3.0

---

I’m not sure I needed another Guncle. I liked it, but felt a little like I’d read it before. Sometimes the humor is a lot

annefrancescarroll's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

catarina_am's review against another edition

3.5

hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

casie_dilla's review against another edition

3.5

funny hopeful fast-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

audegan's review against another edition

2.0

---

I was so disappointed after the long wait. The magic and fun were missing. We are left to slog through Europe listening to trite Guncle advice to the now whiny kids. It was hard to find anything to like about this.

steffixbear's review against another edition

3.5

---

Slow through the middle with a really beautiful ending 

zellerella's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

meiraleba's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

The 10 hour audiobook is well read by the author. This is the follow-up book to his original “The Guncle”. (In that funny and sentimental book a gay uncle takes his nephew and niece, ages 6 and 9,  for the summer after his brother‘s wife dies of an illness.) 

      This book occurs five years later with the kids ages 11 and 14 as their father is getting married in Italy. Their uncle travels with them while his brother prepares for the wedding. It is not quite as good as the first one, as it becomes more sappy, whiny and the 14-year-old girl is just mean at times. But it’s still about life and love and ends well enough.