Talia’s dad wants to sell it, but Mark’s mom wants to hold onto it. At the start of the novel, the two families head back to the summer cottage after the funeral to clean it out. They were close as children and then had a falling out, possibly involving a childhood friend neither has ever mentioned to their own kids, and now they’re thrown back together because of their dad’s death. The first is the family drama with Talia’s dad and Mark’s mother. There are two main plotlines that feel entirely disconnected from each other. Too many characters, too many plotlines, too many ideas, etc. There main problem with When You Get the Chance is that it’s scattered. I probably shouldn’t have done that, because if I had I either would have skipped it or I would have prepared myself for a solidly three-star read. The concept was appealing enough that I read it without taking even a preliminary look at any reviews. It’s so joyfully gay! And since a lot of LGBTQ+ fiction is, for obvious reasons, focused on romance, I was extra excited about this one. When You Get the Chance looked like it was going to be a home run for me. I love stories about loving families and other platonic relationships. I rarely read books that aren’t at least a little bit queer.
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