This is an intense emotionally descriptive story of two half-sisters
and their journey of human existence and the trials they face. How they deal
with their raging inner conflicts. They explored their emotions of broken trust
to betrayal; jealousy to acceptance of their roles in their relationship from
the past to present. They put down their barriers and became vulnerable to
express their pain and explored their issues and let their self-defences down
to discuss the intolerance and misery they had for each other. How they were able
to come to terms of tolerance of acceptance and of what they perceive to be or
not be true of their dysfunctional life experiences. To explore, discussed and forgive each other
to move on to be part of each other’s lives.
The author’s writing style was poetic as she described how
each sister experienced their insecurities and came about their own compromises
as they acknowledged their hidden secrets and unresolved anger at each
other.
The author touched this reader's core with her insight and
expression of various emotions from anger to the sweet intimacy of loving one
so deep it jars the soul to the core For
life is too short to be angry at someone you once loved. Be it family or
friends, and not judge them by their race, gender, or beliefs; accept them as
they are.
This story has many intense events and the main characters
experienced many personal trials, when one sister is about to give up, the
other steps in with support and encouragement. Together in the journey of life
they survive and learned that no matter how many lightning bolts decide to
strike in their lives, they were sisters and sisterly love is forever.
This reader desires to include some writing of this
insightful life tapestry of the two half-sisters and how their struggles of
acceptance from anger, forgiveness and love came about.
"I consider the luck of simply being born, of being
plucked out of the cosmos and bestowed with eyes to see, and nerves to feel,
and ears to hear. Our senses. Our speech. Our breath. How crucial and insistent our
ceaseless moving lungs from our first cry to our last."
This book is about life's hardships and two half-sisters,
Sky, a lawyer and Tara, a rap star who were estrange until the lighting of
tragedy strikes one and they both come together in grief to rebuild their
broken relationship. And to remember all they lost to come to know each other
deeply. How they repair their broken bond and worked through their issues, to
come a new understanding of each other’s beliefs.
During the roller coaster ride they call life there were
lost and found and learn lessons and gain a deep bond of insight and
understanding about each other. Their past and what they have in common.
Decided to release the pent up unresolved emotions enjoy their future as close
sisters should. The pinnacle was an event that crushes Sky’s world has Tara
deciding to put the bitterness aside to come to a compromise and step up to be
a caretaker to her sister Sky. Yet their jealousy, resentment and anger lie
under the surface like a volcano and was about to explode.
The two step sisters are walking a fragile line of caring or
distancing from each other due to conflicts of their past they can't not get
pass. The author described the tension
and emotional pain between the two with a deep intense insight of human
psychology and was able to grasp this reader's attention. As the sisters
experienced the highs and lows of their conflicts, it took this reader back
into past memories of past relationships with family members, and how the
secrets in the closet came to light and needed to be express and forgiven to
move on.
This author wrote a realistic and modern tale of two sisters
as they shared their past and future and their personal trials in a warm and
compassionate tale and let the readers in to share their lives with.
The sisters memories were etched out of colorful description
to shown their journey of emotional tug of war as they experienced their
emotions and flashbacks to come to an understanding about their roles in their
past and present relationships. There were heart wrenching events as well as
joyous events as they express their emotional baggage through life events to be
released using the seven stages of grief to acceptance levels of healing.
To add to the mix, Tara is travelling with her homies her
band, and they are like family to her and now her sister and Rachael are
accepted and are shower with unconditional love as the clouds of suffering were
threatening everything she believes in.
The author adds expressive details and speaks of the
characters as they were her actual family and friends, he chapters about the
younger sister Tara and her husband Aaron and their baby Levy is written with
intensity and depth of poetic language of the deepest emotions of what ones
hides but does not voiced out loud about fear, jealousy and other sensitive
topics. Tara and her family gave the reader a glimpse in the highs and lows
about the rise to fame as rap singers, the divorce of her mother and husband and
the abandonment she felt when her dad walked out on the family and the
resentment she held for Sky, she was the apple of mom’s eye.
The author is able to switch between characters, from the
two sisters, the men in their lives, and others with an easy reading flow. This story touches and expands on many topics
from love, fear, jealousy, discrimination, racism, acceptance and forgiveness
and all that is between. It is an
intense human experience and this reader was glad to open the cover and join
this creative writer on her journey to explore what one defines as existing in
a crazy mixed up world and jump the hurdles with other’s support and
unconditional love. For them to come to a victory, to awakened the next morning
and see their blessings in the midst of the pain one experiences and continue
forth bravely to live another day.
Conclusion: the story is about wounded individuals lost in
the darkness and in their journey, they were divided then they came together to
heal as sisters and re-join as sisters who travelled through personal tragedies
and grief and were able to forgive one another .To join their extended families
together and look toward to a brighter tomorrow in their journey of grief, self-discovery
and forgiveness.
This book was given in exchange for a honest review.
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