Nilufer Ozmekik's Reviews > The Guncle

My favorite feel good fiction of the year is celebrating its birthday today! I cannot express how much I loved this book and invested in those wonderful characters! What are you waiting for! Add your tbr and read urgently!🎈🤗💞🥂

Guncle is SPECTACULAR MASTERPIECE! A comedy feast for your moody soul! Get ready to wipe your tears from laughing out too much till your stomach hurts and crying out too much for the most heartfelt family interactions and incredibly tender, genuine friendship moments!

Oh boy, I’m wordless! There is not enough words at my vocabulary to define my feelings about this book. But I can honestly say it makes you feel too much, too deep!

It’s not only warming your hearth with full happiness, it makes you practice your happy dance moves! You want to sing! You want to do cartwheels! You want to give long and emotional hugs to your loved ones! This is one of the books make you want to change and be a better person! It gives you so much hope to believe in second chances in your life. It brightens your pessimistic mood with vivid colors, turns your soul into rainbow!

I adored guncle- GUP- gay uncle Patrick! I loved his sarcastic, very rich and smart sense of humor! I loved how he cared so much his brother and his best friend’s kids! I loved his strength not to lose his optimism as he also struggled with his own grief! I enjoyed his special Guncle rules! I loved his flaws, vices, faults, insecurities! I loved him as whole!

And those kids were gem! They were sweet pies! I loved to hug and spoil them with gifts, too! Especially Grant and his quirky questions like how do you kill ghosts? How do you eat soup without elbows were fascinating. And Maisie, the protective sister who is forced to grow faster when she lost her mother was so lovable!

The book questions when is the exact time we stop being a kid! I asked myself, too which dragged me into a journey at my memory lane. I’m so sure you would love that, too.

Guncle is story of Patrick is a famous sitcom star ( reminding me of gay version of Kevin from This is Us) who just retired after he lost his loved one Joe at the car accident, moved to Palm Springs, only socializing with his neighbors.

He’s lonely, living a secluded life and his heart gets broken as he learns his best friend Sara who is also his brother’s wife ( he brought them together) passed away and his brother struggles with addiction which makes him at the wrong position to take care of two grieving little kids. He decides to go to Rehab and he asks Patrick to take care of his kids.

Patrick rejects as first but when he realizes his uptight sister is about to take the kids, making snarky remarks about his life style, he changes his mind and takes them to live with him at Palm Springs. What could get wrong? It’s short term arrangement, right?

Did you like the story line as much as I did? Go on, read this precious gem to appreciate how great books heal you completely and change your lives!

If you have a chance to give entire galaxy stars to this book, I’m so sure I will give them! It already took its place as one of my all time favorite reads!

Special thanks to Netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP PUTNAM/ G. P. Putnam’s Sons for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions. I loved it soooooo much!