My Rating for Sisters Like Us: 5 Stars
Harper
Szymanski is struggling to make ends meet after her divorce, raising her
teenage daughter and meddling mother who thinks a woman should be a domestic
goddess in all ways. But for Harper, trying to make ends meet is catching up to
her and if it wasn’t for her loyal clients in her virtual-assistant business,
she would be in curled up ball of goo.
Dr.
Stacey Bloom is a renowned scientist who can tell you all about the brain’s
makeup and more but when it comes to motherhood, Stacey is utterly out of her
league. With time running out, Stacey has to figure out how to tell her mother
she is having a baby and figure out this whole nurturing thing.
As these two sisters figure out life and all its messiness, both women will find the strength to move forward, together, and that they can survive anything.
SISTERS LIKE US is a fun and poignant look into the lives of two sisters and family. Told with Susan Mallery’s trademark style of humor and warmth, the author delivers a wonderful story filled with great moments of life lessons learned, humor and a romance you don’t see coming. I love this author’s Mischief Bay series and was thrilled to see a few familiar faces pop up and the surprise of Lucas, who readers met in book 3, A Million Little Pieces. The writing is tight, that flows smoothly from one scene after another. With each page I turned, I got more and more invested within Harper and Stacey.
As these two sisters figure out life and all its messiness, both women will find the strength to move forward, together, and that they can survive anything.
SISTERS LIKE US is a fun and poignant look into the lives of two sisters and family. Told with Susan Mallery’s trademark style of humor and warmth, the author delivers a wonderful story filled with great moments of life lessons learned, humor and a romance you don’t see coming. I love this author’s Mischief Bay series and was thrilled to see a few familiar faces pop up and the surprise of Lucas, who readers met in book 3, A Million Little Pieces. The writing is tight, that flows smoothly from one scene after another. With each page I turned, I got more and more invested within Harper and Stacey.
I loved these two sisters and found them to be
as unique apart as they are together. Stacey is the brain and loves science,
taking after her grandfather who was an astronaut back in the day. Harper took
to her mother’s Susie Homemaker lessons to heart and has more of a nurturing
gene than Stacey does but its getting hard for Harper to keep up with all the
rules her mother installed in her about her home and everything. Sometimes, as
Harper finds out, life won’t blow up if you get a take-out pizza or don’t make
meals from scratch. Susan Mallery has a way of creating some amazing characters
that I can relate to and with all the characters in the series, I loved each
and everyone of them immensely. They are life-like and it doesn’t take me long
to wonder if I could meet them in real life one day and go for coffee. Add in
some amazing secondary characters such as the sister’s mom, Bunny, the sleazy
ex of Harper’s and Harper’s daughter, Becca, adding teenage angst even as life
tosses lessons to her in the form of Lucas. With each introduction of
characters, the story doesn’t feel overfilled with competing characters but a
close-knit family that you can’t help but fall in love with.
SISTERS LIKE US is a wonderful story about
family dynamics, even as the sisters try to meet their mother’s high
expectations about how they are to live their lives, even as life has shown
them, sometimes you just have to wing it and hold on for the ride. I loved
SISTERS LIKE US and can not wait to see where the author goes in this series. If
you enjoy a story filled with family drama, romance that turns into something
much more than expected then you will enjoy reading about Mischief Bay and all
its quirky residents there. I highly recommend reading from the beginning of
the series to get all the back characters stories who show up here in SISTERS LIKE US. A wonderful addition
to the series and one I plan to read again soon.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement
The Mischief Bay series is as follows:
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