Can you say CHEESE?! 
 This has to be one of the cheesiest books in all of the series. It's the typical drivel of Abbi Glines: the country bumpkin good girl having over the top reactions when her good ol' boy gets his jealous feelings hurt. 
 When You're Back picks up awhile after the last book ended. While Mase has been in Texas dealing with life, Reese was getting to know her new family. Even though this family is warm and welcoming (and apparently waited years to help the hoe out), she decides she needs to be in Texas with her man. 
 The second she makes it back to Reese, we are introduced to the thorn in Reese's side: Aida. She's the cousin (that's not really a cousin) and (not so secretly) in love with Mase. She doesn't want anything to mar their reunion so is desperate for the cousin to like her. 
 So she goes out of her way to do anything Aida wants: be quiet, make her dinner, agree to events she doesn't want to go to, stand to the side while her man dances with his cousin no way a cousin should. 
 Been to Texas - not once did I see two cousins involved in an incestuous relationship. I don't understand this gimmick in all of Glines' books. It's like she wants the South to be perceived as an incestuous land. 
 Anyway, another character is brought back - River "Captain" Kipling, Blaire's older half-brother we didn't know about for most of the series. He's here out of nowhere and always seems to show up where Reese goes. You know, like her work, harassing her there even though she repeatedly told him to leave her alone. 
 Oh, did I mention the man that raped Reese in the past is back in the picture? 
 I mean of course he is. We need the drama! 
 While most of this was ridiculous and over the top, I did like how her Dyslexia was written and the struggle she still faced with it. It felt real and (surprisingly) well-written. 
 Meh. I can't get over the father and how he didn't save her when he clearly knew about her. So I give this 1.5 stars.