Reviews by Tag: sisters

Summary: The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood is a heartfelt contemporary young adult novel that follows the lives of the four Garrett sisters: Des, Bea, Kat, and Vi. Each sister yearns for something different. Des dreams of a career in fashion, but finances and societal expectations stand in her way. Bea seeks love, yet she fears rejection. Kat craves independence but is weighed down by responsibilities. Vi, the youngest, yearns for adventure but feels held back by her age.

Imagine driving across the country with your sibling for

almost a week. Well, this happened to Raina, and she gives us a

great comic book that journeys her story with her sister Amara

while traveling for almost a week. They are not each other's

favorite people, so will it work out for them?

After a tragic accident, two very close sisters have to learn how to maintain their

closeness through a traumatic experience. Roo, the older sister, crashes her car and gets

“locked-in syndrome” where she can see and hear everything but cannot respond verbally or

physically. She and her younger sister, Tilly, have to figure out how to communicate with each

other again. The book talks about dealing with guilt and how traumatic events can make

relationships between people even more complex. It depicts a lot of real emotions: anger,

When twelve year old Lulu’s dad goes missing, it becomes Lulu’s job to

take care of her sister Serena. Lulu has to take her fathers work with only

about seventy dollars, while taking care of her classes. She has to overcome

her problems with hard work in order to protect herself and her sister from

getting separated.

The Twin by Natasha Preston is about a girl named Ivy who welcomes

her twin sister, Iris, after a fatal accident happening to their mother. Ivy

wasn’t exactly thrilled but was willing to share her life with Iris. But Iris

seems a bit obsessed with Ivy’s life. Almost wanting to take over her life.

Ivy tries to pretend she is just being paranoid but now everyone is under

Iris’s spell. Ivy must figure out what’s going on and what are Iris’s true

intentions.

Vanishing Girls, by Lauren Oliver, is about 2 sisters finding their ways into the world. Nic and Dara weren’t the closest of sisters but they looked out for each other. They would play games, have fun talking for hours and hours about anything and everything, doing things sisters do. But then things started to happen. Nic started to grow up trying to be more protective of Dara but that only led to Dara getting hurt. A car accident that left beautiful Dara scarred.

Rating: 4.5

My rating for this book is a 4.5 because the book has an awesome story and I think it really was an awesome book. This book emotionally hooks you to the point where you don't want to put the book down anymore.

Summary:

This is about two girls named Della and Suki who are sisters. They always loved each other and protected each other no matter what happened. They find out that their mom takes drugs and their life is suddenly unpredictable.

Recommendation:

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a novel about a 14-year-old girl named Lily, desperate to escape her abusive father and find out about her mother’s long-lost secrets after her death many years ago. It is a compelling love story between women, as it greatly displays divine feminine power. I recommend this book to anybody who truly wants to be inspired by sisterly love and the power of sisterhood.

The Vanishing Half is set in the 20th century and follows the lives of twins--Desiree and Stella--born into a colorist town named Mallard. As the twins split ways, each to her own adventures, they both share their own unique stories and reveal the trauma involved with their youth. However, despite their differences and their split, they always manage to find each other. This book does a great job of showing aspects of internal discrimination within a community, whether it be race or gender.

The novel Homegoing, is an eye-opening story that depicts an unflinching portrayal of the slave trade exports in the 18th century and its contrasting impacts down the generations. Gyasi conveys these struggles by sharing the stories of two half-sisters (and their descendants), Effia and Esi, one who married a wealthy English man and the other who was sold into slavery, representing how slavery destroyed one line of the family while it cursed the other.