Just Finished… – A Blonde and 3 Boys

Hello, Fellow Readers!

I just finished a gem of a book Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson.

Have you ever read a book that you didn’t want to end o just connected with the story? This was one of those for me. Not that my family is from the South or that I was pregnant and single when I was 38. It was the main character’s relationship with her Garmma. It reminded me of my feelings for my dear Gramma Shane.(I am spelling Gramma like they do in the South!) 🙂

I stumbled onto this book by total chance. I went to my local bookstore to see if my ordered books had arrived and of course I was too eager…no books. The gal at the book store, Pam and I started chatting about books. She had just finished Almost Sisters and gave it a great review along with a high recommendation. So how could I pass it up? I started it as soon as I got home…and haven’t put it down until I was done!! It is such a wonderful, loving, sad and touching story between Leia, her unborn baby, her gramma: Birchie and Birchie’s BFF, Wattie.

Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman.

It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy – an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she’s been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.

Yet just when Leia thinks she’s got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie’s been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family’s freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and the life of her unborn baby.

When I rate a book, I think about if I can’t wait to read it, if I take it with me to pick up Jack (I go early so I can read) or if I think about it during the day. I did all of those with this book. I hope you do too!

I give this book a definite 5 out of 5 stars.

Hello, Fellow Readers!

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