Review: Sisters in trouble
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2013
Soo, what is the world coming to when I read two chick lit books in a week. It took me five hours to read. I could easily read two category romances and get two happy endings in that time.Ali Ahearn and her sister Ros Baxter are both writers in their own right, Ali under her Amy Andrews pseudonym for Harlequin and Entangled and Ros is just starting out. I read a great little short on her blog last week for Valentine's Day.Put them together and you get a story about two sisters who haven't talked for seven years. Obviously not based on their own experience as this book is a collaboration and a fairly seamless one at that.The premise, two estranged sisters forced to go on the reality show "Endurance Island", think Survivor type shows, allows for some great interactions. It also allows them to meet a whole new set of people.Being a category romance fan, I was a bit, okay now where is the love interest, but the love story is really about Joni and Frankie, our sisters torn apart by an act of betrayal. It's about both of them finding out the truth about who they are, their strengths (often unexpected) and their weakness (hidden even from themselves). The challenges they face on the reality show test them individually and as a team. And at times threaten to push them even farther apart.This is a very satisfying read with lots of laugh out loud moments (don't try and explain why you are laughing to your husband, it simply isn't worth it. Truly) but also some OMG moments where all seems lost. For the romance fans there are some genuinely gorgeous men for our heroines though this isn't the main focus of the story. Great work Ali and Ros. You did actually give me two happy endings for my time spent.