Between Sisters

Screw you, Between Sisters, using a 36 point font...

Aside from that, this book was a fast read (not a surprise, as I could see all of the words on a page from across the room). Again, very Lifetime movie-ish from Kristin Hannah, but like I've said before, I'm not above Lifetime movies. Point me to a mini-marathon starring Meredith Baxter and I'm there.

A real tear jerker that had me glued to the story even though the romance took a back seat. It was sometimes slow at the beginning but maybe that was needed because I identified with the emotions of each main character. Attorney Meg has a forced vacation and ends up planning a wedding for her estranged sister.

My only objection is that I kept sobbing towards the end of last night. My husband thought something was very wrong with me.

Two half-sisters with a celebrity mom, Claire Sullivan and Meghann Dontess. Due to neglect and abandonment by their mom, Meghan, the older was a stand-in mom for her younger sister, Claire. When their mother completely forgot about them, Meghan panicked and called Claire's stepfather who was not even aware of Claire. He came and took them away, Meghann felt rejected and ran away.

Years later, Meghann is a prominent divorce lawyer making a lot of money and her little sister helped her father with his small resort in Hayden, Washington.
Megahnnis always lonely and uses alcohol and one-night stands to numb her broken show more feelings. She longs for her sister but refuses to take action recommended by her psychiatrist. Claire gets asked to a getaway with a group of her long-time friends and meets Bobby Austin. Claire falls hard for a country music singer who never got a big break.

A drifter with a big secret misses his sister and reluctantly returns to Hayden. He feels guilty and has never been able to live with his grief.

The characters were drawn so well that I got attached to them and wanted a sequel. I am always drawn to character-centered, especially family books are my favorite. show less

Meghann and little sister Claire survived a childhood with a crazy mother seeking a Hollywood career and who found solace with a series of men. Eventually young Claire is united with her father and half sister Meghann becomes a tough as nails divorce lawyer but her life is empty. Meghann fills her loneliness with anonymous trysts while Claire finds a simpler life running a campground with her father. Things will change and while the story is predictable Hannah is a skilled writer that makes the reader follow along and care. Happy ending both love and health.

Picked up because I previously enjoyed another Kristin Hannah novel. At first I was worried I wouldn't identify with the characters, because they're older than what I normally read and in more complex life situations. However, Hannah has yet to fail to draw me into her stories. Her characters and their relationships are full of interesting layers.

Sibling relationships can be complicated, especially half-sisters with a large age gap. Throw in a undependable mother and hardship, and you've got a life-time of therapy. Meghann Dontess happens to be in therapy. As a divorce attorney, she hates the fact that her, somewhat-estranged, younger sister is rushing into marriage with a man she barely knows. But Meghann is forced to deal with the show more situation and some of the skeletons in her closet as she plans her sister's dream wedding. show less

Like other books of this genre, all the coincidences and connections are a little too pat, a bit too neat, to be believeable, but the author still weaves a good story and the interactions among the women, and especially between the sisters, was very percpetive.

'Between Sisters' is my second Kristin Hannah book, and I love her writing. Kristin Hannah knows to write different genres; she also knows how to write sisterhood relationship biological and friendship.
'Between Sisters,' as the author wrote in her note for the readers, "is a novel about women in conflict and crisis learning to face modern hardships by relying on themselves, their friends, and their families."
It’s an emotional story of two sisters finding their way back to one another after being estranged. I laughed, I cried, I felt.
I listened to while reading my physical copy; the narrator, Laural Merlington, is doing beautiful work with the voices for the male and the female character and the accents accordingly.
The settings show more are so simple and inviting; the characters are flawed in such ways that make them feel real to the reader. The characters have flaws, but the flaws are created to make you feel sympathy for or appreciation of the character, not in a way that would make you hate the character for being so incredibly obnoxious.
I know that I will continue reading Kristin Hannah's book backlist and new. show less