B+ Reviewschick-lit / Contemporary / sisters / Womens-Fiction7 Comments
Dear Emily Giffin: Back in the day, I really loved your first two books, Something Borrowed and Something Blue, and also liked the next two, Baby Proof and Love the One You’re With. I’m not sure why I stopped reading your books after that, except that I felt like perhaps ... more >
C+ Reviewsadoption / California / Delacorte Press / first person present tense / sisters / thriller / twins / Young-Adult1 Comments
Dear Ms. Omololu, Let me know if this sounds familiar. We have a pair of twins. They switch places and occasionally assume each other’s identity. Eventually, they’re found out. Your novel, The Third Twin, takes this to an extreme I didn’t know existed. Lexi and Ava don’t assume each other’s ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / dancing / fairytale / Historical / New York City / sisters / YA13 Comments
Dear Ms. Valentine, I first came across your YA historical novel, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, when The Book Smugglers reviewed it. Hapax also raved about it in our Open Thread for Readers for September. Everything I heard about this novel, especially that it was a Jazz Age set ... more >
B Reviewscountry-living / England / Historical / sisters / SourceBooks / World War II6 Comments
No Matter What Life Throws at Them, the Grace Sisters Always Have Each Other The four Grace sisters—Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie—love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their insular world might seem dull, but the sisters and their father, Mr. Grace, never seem ... more >
C- ReviewsAssassin / blind heroine / Harper-Teen / psychic / sisters / Young-AdultComments Off on REVIEW: Perfect Lies by Kiersten White
Dear Ms. White, I still have yet to pick up your Paranormalcy trilogy, but I enjoyed Mind Games, a thriller about two sisters with special abilities who’d do anything for each other. That book ended with the sisters separated: psychic Annie free at last and violent Fia returning to the ... more >
C- ReviewsAction/Adventure / amnesia / Little Brown / Science Fiction / sisters / Young-Adult2 Comments
Dear Ms. Rush, While your debut, Altered, left me underwhelmed, the fast-paced action of the plot stuck with me. I wanted to see if the second book improved. Sometimes it takes a book or two for a series to find its legs. (Hey, I started out a fantasy reader. Believe ... more >