In all honesty, this book went by me the first time. It was then recommended to me by a fellow reader. Boy was it a great recommendation! There was not one feeling or emotion that this book didn’t bring out in me. Hunter and Sara are such realistic characters. You can’t help but see parts of your life or someone you know in it. Therefore it moves every reader who touches this book.
I voluntarily reviewed an reader copy of this book provided by NetGalley.

This story has vaguely described sex and some cursing including two f-bombs. Neither thing is over-done in this book and are easily skipped over. This is the second book of the Cabot series but you do not have to have read the first to read and enjoy this book.

This book blew me away. Even re-reading my highlights before writing this review I found myself falling back in love with Hunter and Sara and even Gentry, believe it or not. I want to sit back down and re-read this one right now, I enjoyed it that much. After reading the first book, I knew that Sara and Hunter's story was going to gut me when reading it, but I was hoping that it would put the broken pieces back together before it ended, and Ms. Beck did that. The struggle that these two face as they deal with infertility, personal heartache, family and work stress, and the strain that all of that put on their marriage was tremendous and the writing made it so incredibly real that the stress was palpable. Both Hunter and Sara were flawed and imperfect, but that just made them more realistic. They were still incredibly likable and relatable despite their flaws. (Even if I wanted to shake Hunter more than once.) And the rest of the Cabot clan was, once again, really great. To my great surprise, I found myself really empathizing with her character and I cannot wait to read her story.

The only teeny tiny issue I have is that the ending felt a little too rushed and a little too perfect. Everything kind of just fell into place a little too neatly. But it didn't bother me enough to cost the book a star because I loved the rest of the book that much.

I requested and was generously granted an ARC of this book via NetGalley and the publisher. I was under no obligation to write this review.

I had no expectations for this book as I just saw it on Netgalley and it seemed intriguing so I went with it. First of all, I would categorize this book as Women’s fiction and not a romance per say, but that in no way detracts from this story. And what a wonderful, messy family story it is. Hunter and Sara have been married for fourteen years and have hit a rough patch. A family business along with a cast of family members with issues of their own and this makes for a great read. I was sucked in from the beginning of the book and kept reading to the end. I almost didn’t want it to end. At the beginning of this review i said it was not a romance, and yet it is a romance of marriage and the every day dealings that most of us go through. Well written and very enjoyable.

I read All We Knew as a standalone and its book two in The Cabot's series.

Hunter Cabot is CFO of Cabot Tea Company and has been working as long as he remembers to prepare to eventually take over the running of the business from his father. It's one of two passions in his life; his wife is his other. However, when his father and stepmother plan to sell the business, his world's thrown into turmoil especially when the love of his life doesn't see his point of view because of a personal battle they are fighting.

Coming from a large family, Sara Cabot wants a family of her own but after failed attempts at IVF she's distraught especially when her husband chooses to focus on his battle to save the company he was born to run.

I jumped in blind with this novel and I'll admit I wouldn't have chosen it because of the difficult topics entwined within the narrative. Yet, I became sucked into and enveloped within the story as Hunter and Sara work through their problems to keep their marriage together. Their love for each other is unquestionable however, their upsetting predicament highlights problems within their relationship and neither are on the same page to solve them. It's incredibly emotional as the couple navigate the peaks and troughs caused by their current circumstances and the author nails the impassioned feelings beautifully.

Jamie Beck is undoubtedly known for writing realistic stories and All We Knew can't get any more real when you can identify with the protagonists because character traits are so similar to yourself and loved one. Sometimes, the dialogue between Hunter and Sara made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on-end when exchanges are so convincing it's like an echo. I'm nothing like Sara and have never experienced the heartbreak she has endured, but that doesn't stop the heartfelt and often upsetting dialogue between her and Hunter sounding eerily like conversations I've heard or experienced before on a personal level. Ms Beck wholeheartedly brings her protagonists to life in a way that blew me away.

This is only the second novel I've read by this author and whilst I thoroughly enjoyed the previous one, All We Knew is even better. This is a heartfelt love story between two people who managed to drift in different directions but able to find their way back and I'm eagerly looking forward to the next instalment in this series as Gentry Cabot is definitely someone of interest.

5 stars

***arc generously received courtesy of Montlake Romance via NetGalley***

I loved, loved, loved All We Knew by the amazing Jamie Beck, book two in her Cabots series. Ms. Beck truly knows how to create a wonderful and emotional story between two people deeply in love but having reached a point where flaws can no longer be overlooked as they are eroding the love they have one another. Warning: do not read this book without tissues nearby.

Hunter loved Sara from the day he met here but he also loved Cabot Tea, the company his dad founded and where Hunter worked his way up as he learned the company. Hunter needed structure and order, but most of all he needed Sara’s love and trust. Sara wanted to be a mom and have a family like the one she remembers growing up in more than anything in the world. However, for some unknown reason her body betrayed this wish and refused to grant this wish, even through IVF. Sara needed to find something to focus on and found it at Angel House, a place for displaced women and children. There she found a purpose for her life and a fulfillment, even if she became too attached to the residents. As Hunter focuses more on keeping the company from being sold Sara feels left out and distant from him, even taken for granted. Were the ties that held their marriage together fraying and sending Sara on a downward spiral? Another factor in all of this upheaval for them is Gentry’s, Hunter’s half-sister, unexpected pregnancy, initial decision to give the baby to Hunter and Sara, and later to change her mind. Sara and Hunter need to find a way to put their love and marriage back on track without feeling taken for granted.

I really loved reading this book and had trouble putting this book down. Ms. Beck is a wonderful story teller, drawing me in and not letting go until I read the last page. I highly recommend this book to other readers and can’t wait to read the next book in this series, Gentry’s story.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.

I was given a free ecopy of this book from @Netgalley and @AmazonPublishing #partner for an honest review. This is the second book in The Cabot series but can be read as a stand alone. As with the first book the writing is good as is the character development. I thought Hunter’s character was the most well written. Sara’s character is also well developed but I think she was portrayed as a little too kind and sweet. I also would have liked to learn a little more about Colby and Alec, the main characters in the first book. Now having said all that I really enjoyed this book. Hunter and Sara had been happily married for years until they began to have trouble conceiving a baby. They are undergoing IVF at the beginning of the book. This is coinciding with an extremely busy time for Hunter at work and this is increasing stress in their marriage. Their final IVF fails and Sara is devastated. Hunter’s sister Gentry announces her unplanned pregnancy and her plans to let Hunter and Sara adopt the baby. This smooths over some of the rough patches in their marriage until Gentry changes her mind. As their marital problems mount so do Hunters’s work problems and other family stresses. Sara is trying to come to terms with her plans for a baby being over and Hunter’s increasing emotional distance. Will they be able to save their marriage? The next book will be about Gentry and I am really looking forward to it. Gentry is a wild card so it should be interesting to what happens with her.

All We Knew is the 2nd book in The Cabots series. I think it would be fine to read as a stand-alone.

Hunter Cabot deeply loves two things: the international tea company he’s helped his father build since he was in middle school, and his wife, Sara, who he fell in love with at first sight. Now it looks like everything he loves is falling apart. His father is looking to sell the company after promising Hunter that it would be his one day to lead. The failure to start a family and the stress of work has also put a strain in his marriage.

I thought the story was good and it was well written. But I really disliked Sara. I really thought she was self-centered. I wanted to put the book down after all the b*tching and moaning about being lonely and Hunter only caring about work and not the family. First off, the only reason she gets to be home and not work is because he is working so hard. In real life, most people don't have the luxury to quit work because it might be too "stressful".

Thank you to NetGalley and Montlake Romance for supplying me a copy of Jamie Beck's "All We Knew" in exchange of an honest review.

All We Knew is a wonderfully crafted story of a couple's emotional journey through the highs and lows of the struggle with infertility. Never is the love between Sara and Hunter questioned. They've been together for 14 years but never have they been tested the way they are being tested now. First the infertility which is breaking apart Sara's dreams then Hunter who has put his heart and soul into the family tea import business discovers that his father is entertaining a buyout offer he's furious. Putting his full attention behind keeping the business in the family he seems to be missing the distance that is growing between himself and Sara. Will he realize what is happening in time?

An incredible book and one I recommend to everyone.

I was not a real fan of Hunter and Sara's story. It worked out well in the end, but Beck has a myriad of different secondary character stories playing against our main couple. At times this story stalled, but the ending was satisfying.

This is a tough one- Hunter and Sara have been together for a long time but infertility is tearing them apart. You might not agree with all of their choices but Beck has done a nice job of addressing the issue from Sara's point of view. Give Hunter a break. He's a good guy at heart and he's well written. Keep your eye on Gentry and the family dynamics. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

Let me start by saying, I love both Jamie Beck and her writing style. I enjoyed book one in this series, but classified it as more of a woman’s fiction read. All We Knew, though, I feel is more of a family drama. Because as much as it centers on Sara and Hunter, it has many off-shoot stories about other “couples”...Hunter and his dad, Sara and Gentry, etc. A romance to me always ends in a HEA; it’s pretty much a guarantee. But there are no guarantees in this story. There really wasn’t anyone to cheer for, in my opinion, either. I felt like the Cabot’s were a very unlikeable family...self absorbed, selfish, and in some cases, mean.
I know it dealt with some heavy and heartbreaking subject matter at its core. I actually enjoyed that part because I thought it was well written and researched and it felt real. And while I know infertility can tear couples apart, I was more annoyed than sympathetic to both Hunter and Sara’s behavior.
I won’t say anything else that might give away the ending, which I wasn’t surprised about but was sort of disappointed in.
So the 4 Stars is for the writing, the characters deserve a 3, so overall I give it 3.5 Stars. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC

I really wanted to like this story. It is a different take on a romance where the main characters are reconnecting and trying to fix an established relationship. The thing is, I just couldn't care about the characters. The problem with jumping into the story part way into the relationship is that it was hard to understand why I should care about their relationship, other than the characters telling me they cared about each other. The whole story just really dragged for me because I didn't have that connection. If this unique take on romance interests a reader, I would recommend giving this a try because I love Jamie Beck and her writing, this just didn't engage me like her stories normally do.

Such a great book ! Family drama ! Loved it ! So happy to realize there are other books in a series, had no idea ! Seeing how a couple deals with infertility, integrated families and family business drama all in one book made for interesting reading ! Loved the way the author made you love the characters, flaws and all. This is a book just about anyone will love !

I received an Advanced Reader Copy from NetGalley for my unbiased opinion of the book. I really enjoyed the second book in this series. The first one I thought was lacking. This book made up for it. Hunter Cabot is overdriven when it comes to the family business and his wife Sara main goal is to get pregnant. She is trying to keep the marriage and family together after a few miscarriages and possible sale of the family business. Hunters ambition will cause a serious rift in the marriage. I do not want to say much more. I could not put this book down read in less than a day! I look forward to Gentry's book.

ARC courtesy of Netgalley

I picked up this title from Netgalley because it featured a situation unusual for a romance novel: a long-time married couple going through marital difficulties. But the story was a disappointment, on several levels.

Sara and Hunter met in college, and married shortly thereafter. Both Sara and Hunter worked up until recently, when Sara quit her job to relieve the stress she thought was preventing her from becoming pregnant. Hunter, an ambitious man devoted to his job working for his family's tea company, has little sympathy for Sara's grief when the latest round of IVF doesn't result in a pregnancy. Hence, their marriage is suffering at the start of the novel.

Most of the book focuses on Sara and Hunter's arguments. They are both fairly stereotypical feminine and masculine: Sara's a caretaker who thinks family is the most important thing; Hunter is a hard-driving career guy, analytical, controlling, and logical. This isn't my cup of tea, but I could have enjoyed the book more if the author has presented either of the characters with more sympathy. Instead, they both come across as self-involved and intolerant; lacking any insight into their own motivations, or the motivations of their partner, they spend most of their time judging each other and playing the blame game. Each character both insists that they love the other, and that they were great for each other earlier in their marriage, but the narrative doesn't SHOW the two getting along at all, or having much of anything in common. All this may make for a realistic novel, but it's certainly not an enjoyable one. It is more women's fiction than romance, but without the literary merit or emotional insight that characterizes the best women's fiction.

I also did not care for the women as competitors for men's attention threads, nor for the truly awful and classist way that Sara's baby dreams finally get answered:<spoiler> a woman in a halfway house where Sara had been working dies, leaving her cute baby available for Sara and Hunter to foster and adopt. Sara had spent lots of time judging said mother for her bad parenting, without showing any sympathy or insight into the difficulties faced by a working class person or by a former drug addict. Really problematic, basically erasing a lower class person just to supply the child for a white privileged woman. </spoiler>

Finally, the turnaround in feelings that mostly Hunter, but Sara a bit too, experience in order to make their marriage start to work again felt too abrupt to be believable. These two needed a good long time in couples' therapy to be able to reach the insights about their own behavior, and their behavior to each other, that dawned on them after only a few weeks spent apart.

This was an amazing, raw and emotional journey unlike any romance I've read. One of the big differences is that we already start our with our couple, Hunter & Sara, married. They have been trying unsuccessfully to have a baby thorough IVF, so naturally there is a great deal of stress on their marriage. Add to that the changes being brought up at the family business Hunter runs with his father and things are quite strained for these two people who clearly love each other. Can Sara and Hunter weather the storm and whatever fate has in store for them? Or is this all a bit too much even for the strongest of marriages.
This was a beautifully written story by Jamie Beck that was so heartbreaking at times and so uplifting at others my motions went on a heck of an incredible ride. Can't wait for Gentry's book!!

Hunter and Sara have the perfect marriage but is it really? Hunter is heir to Cabot Tea Company and now his father is looking at selling and he is so wrapped up in stopping the sale he is forgetting to be there for his wife.. Sara has always wanted a family after multiple tries and exhausting all avenues it just doesn't seem to be working and her husband is not there for her when she needs him most. Can this marriage be saved?

This was a very emotional read. It showed the reality of how a marriage is completely different on the inside then the outside. Great book

I had all the feels with this book. I loved reading about how Hunter and Sara met and learning about their early years and I really felt for Sara throughout their story. This was not a quick read and it's not your typical HEA book. It just seemed that these two had so much turmoil and they really didn't live happily ever after as soon as the wedding was over. Hunter and Sara really showed a true relationship and the real problems many couples face. I was rooting for them throughout the book and was so pleased with the ending.

I enjoyed book 1 in this series , and was looking forward to Sara’s and Hunter’s story.
I have to confess I have mixed feeling about this book.
The best part of this story is that it is well written.The author presents to the reader not only the struggles and effects infertility has on the couple but also family dynamics , especially when it involves step -mother, step-sisters, as well as the interactions between everyone . She also gives us a glimpse at a home for women trying to overcome domestic abuse and/or drug use.
All that said, I didn’t find Sara or Hunter to be the most likable characters. They were both a tad self -centered and unwillingly to see each other’s point of view. The angst got tiresome and repetitive. From personal experience I what they were dealing with, but somehow they didn’t seem to want to move forward.
It wasn’t until the last 20% of the book, that I finally got to like them a little bit.
For me , it was more of a 3.5 star. I want to point out , that I have a great deal of respect for the author, and know that writing any story, especially one like this one, takes a great deal of time, research and dedication.
I was gifted this copy by Netgalley. The opinions expressed are solely my own.

Hunter Cabot is the CFO of the family’s Cabot Tea Corporation (CTC). He is passionate about his job and taking the company in new directions to continue expanding it. He has worked alongside his father since he was in junior high. His dad promised him to one day hand the company over to him to continue the legacy.

Hunter and Sara have been married for 14 years. They put off having kids until they both felt established in their careers. They have been dealing with fertility issues for the last 2 years - pills, hormone shots, IVF - and it has taken a toll on their marriage.

You can feel the connection between Hunter and Sara. You feel Sara’s broken heart and her grief. Hunter’s way of dealing with the grief is so opposite of Sara’s that she has a hard time believing he feels anything at all. I loved Hunter. His wife is his world and he tried his best to comfort her. Sara got a little self-absorbed and self centered.

The Cabot family is a mess. Hunter’s dad divorced his mom when he and his sister were young. Hunter used CTC as a means to connect with his dad. His dad remarried a nasty piece of work and had another daughter. Tension filled dynamics is an understatement.

I LOVED when Hunter’s mom put Hunter’s step mom in her place!!!! I threw my arm in the air and shouted “YES!!”

This book definitely pulls at your heart and takes you through many emotions. You could find all the family dynamics and situations IRL. The one issue I had was the ending. It felt rushed and too easily resolved.

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC provided by NetGalley and the publisher.