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and easy read! Absolutely amazing, On to the next one for sure! I really enjoyed this book, I couldnt put it down, This is the first in a suspense series in which the amount of action and quirky characters fit perfectly together, A very smooth operation is pulled off by non professionals to right a horrible wrong that each of them feel equally motivated to vindicate.
I enjoyed this very entertaining story by Fern Michaels that was made great by Laural Merlington's narrative, Not quite a cozy because of some of the brutality and lack of sexy romance, but would definitely be a fun dramady for the big screen.
I will be reading more in this series, A couple weeks ago

I was browsing in the public library and struck up a conversation with this sweet older lady, She's probably in her lates, And seemed like the nice grandmotherly type, In the course of the conversation she recommend Fern Michaels Sisterhood series, So I picked it up, Little old ladies are rarely wrong, right Wrong,

Revenge makes for great stories in all media, I mean, who doesn't like Chuck Bronson in Death Wish

While I liked the plot idea, a group of wronged women joining up to help each other exact revenge on the people who wronged them and escaped justice for one reason or another.


In reality, I felt the vitriol seemed harshI know all vitriol is harsh, but this seemed harsh and disingenuous, And I just couldn't suspend belief long enough to get on board with the plotline, This revenge is too much, Just too much.

And it also seemed that Ms Michaels may have had a word limit to this book,

Decisions were made by characters and suddenly everything was finished, No details. Just like SNAP and it happens, And that felt disingenuous. And rushed. And hurried. Like she wasn't allowed to flesh out the storyline more fully,

I don't know, Many people liked this. Little old ladies love this series, But this one left me cold, The Sisterhood: seven women who have been wronged by the law and by those they thought they loved come together to get justice.


I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway and I wasnt sure about it at first, There were some scenes that made me feel like it was going to be unrealistic, but then the Sisterhood was formed and I fell right into it.
The characters are a fabulous group of women from different walks of life that all deserve justice, The way they bicker at the beginning and then bond throughout the book is inspiring and true to life, You can feel the respect they all have for each other,
Charles is the boyfriend of the leader of the group, Myra, He used to work for the Queen of England and has so many connections that it seems impossible for anything to go wrong.
And almost nothing goes wrong, I was expecting a bit more nail biting moments, The only real issue is Myras daughter Nikkis exboyfriend, D, A. Jack Emery. Hes very nosey and tries to make thing hard for Nikki, Hes messed up on a case and is trying to prove that Nikki had something to do with it,
All in all I really enjoyed the story and the women involved, They are just a great, fun, energetic group of women, Im looking forward to following their adventures as they seek justice for another sister, Today, they start fighting back, . .

Life isn't fair, Most women know it. But what can you do about it Plenty, . . if you're part of the Sisterhood, On the surface, these seven women are as different as can bebut each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job.
Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had.
Growing bolder with each act of justice, the Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead.
. . or you can get up fighting,

Praise for Fern Michaels and her Sisterhood novels

"Readers will enjoy seeing what happens when wellfunded, very angry women take the law into their own hands.
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Booklist on Weekend Warriors

"Delectable, . . delivers revenge that's creatively swift and sweet, Michaelsstyle, "
Publishers Weekly on Hokus Pokus

Special Bonus Material Celebrating the Sisterhood Series! Where to start.
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From the very beginning, this story was forced and contrived, The writing was choppy and every other sentence the characters were calling each other by their names, How many times do you actually say the name of the person you're speaking with in a conversation Exactly,

In addition to clumsy dialogue, where were the actions, the body language that SHOWED the reader what the character was feeling, the sighs, the running of one's hand through one's hair, the emotional tug 'o war, etc.
because these details were lacking, the characters were wooden and completely dull,

The story was everywhere, I would have preferred to follow one, two, even possibly three characters around, I wanted to get into their heads, I wanted to feel their pain, I wanted to emotionally invest in their nightmare so that when their revenge happened, I could rejoice in their triumph.
I wasn't emotionally invested in any of these characters, sure, I felt sorry for them, but I didn't care enough about them to really care about their individual predicaments.


And this whole revenge thing, . . I have mixed feelings about this, On the one hand, life is not fair, And victims, especially in today's society, are too often made to feel guilty for something they had absolutely no control over, And yes, our legal system is FLAWED and evil people get away with murder BUT if revenge is sought, then show the reader that there's a little human remorse, and/or compassion while exacting that revenge.
Because even though the revenge is warranted, if the characters don't have at least one moment of remorse, then that character comes off as cold and unfeeling and compassionate human nature is somehow lost in translation.


This whole story was too clinical for me, It moved too fast and felt rushed, Another reviewer commented on how she thought maybe Ms, Michaels had a word limit on this story was rushing through the plot in order not to exceed the word limit those are my thoughts exactly.


And finally, the whole Niki speaking to Barb's ghost angle I simply couldn't stomach that part, Granted, I'm not a big ghost believer myself, but there are times that can work in a story, but it didn't work in this story.
If felt too much like Ms, Michaels needed to give Niki someone she could confide in, digest all of her feelings with, and she didn't have time to introduce a new character, so she stuck Barbara's ghost in there.
The first time Niki spoke to Barb's ghost in the rocking chair, I nearly stopped reading right there, But I trudged forward because honestly, this story has gotten a lot of good reviews and I gave it the benefit of the doubt based on that.
But the choppy dialogue and the dull characters finally ruined it for me I didn't even make it halfway through the story.
I'm done with this story and the sisterhood series,

Revenge makes great stories, but when it's rushed and handled poorly, it just comes off cold, distasteful, and dare I say, boring.
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