A review by ccopeland28
Abandoned by Allison Brennan

4.0

I have not read the series, but I did read #4 [b:Shattered|31450644|Shattered (Max Revere, #4)|Allison Brennan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1479871779s/31450644.jpg|52153528] and I remembered Max Revere from that. Maxine Revere is definitely a character that stands out and I like her straight-shooting get-out-of-my-way attitude. I liked learning about her childhood and I am sure readers of the full series absolutely loved that glimpse into little Max's life. The cut-aways to Max's mother's life at some point became repetitive and/or predictable, but I still found the whole of it enjoyable. For Max's mother to be billed as a life-long a con-artist she sure wasn't impressing me with how it all ended.
SpoilerI felt like the two postcards sent to Max and Eve weren't enough and scrawling "Never sell this" (or whatever Martha wrote on the back of the painting) was the equivalent of "There's always money in the banana stand".