The Sunshine Sisters by Jane Green follows the lives of three sisters as they come together at their mother's house. Their mother has requested their attendance so that she can inform them of her recent health diagnosis. The sisters have been estranged with each other and their mother but this might be coming to an impasse as they reel from the shocking news that their mother relays to them. This trial will help the sisters see that sometimes blood actually can be thicker than water. Read and enjoy!

This is certainly the best book that Jane Green has written in years, a book that I totally enjoyed. Within the framework of three sisters getting reacquainted and ending their estrangement, she has captured many topical and interesting scenarios.

The sisters are the children of diva, celebrity and difficult mother Ronni Sunshine. We enter their lives as she is planning suicide rather than live through the ravages of dying of ALS. Despite the fact that the daughters are very different, it is their reunion at her bedside that salves years of wounds and gives each of the women a happy ending and a road pointed toward a fine future.

I really enjoyed this book and suggest you tuck it in your beach bag for a fun and entertaining summer read.

I am a Jane Green fan. I was happy to receive an ARC of her new book.

A mother asks 3 daughters to come home to help her end her life.
They had a poor family background. They shared a turbulent lives as young girls each developing her own coping skills; but none having a healthy notion of what family means.
Until a disease changes everything!
Can they find each other again and become a family now or has too much hurt been done?

True enjoyment wrapped up into a book.

I really love Jane Green, but was disappointed in this book. I did enjoy the second half of the book, when the three sisters came back together. Meredith, Nell, and Lizzy were funny and heartwarming with each other, although I could not really empathize with their characters. They were narrow minded and selfish. I felt the actual death of Ronnie was glossed over. Yes, it was in the prologue how Ronnie took her own life, but the actual chapter where the girls found her was unsatisfying. All in all, I just could not connect with these characters.

Jane Green is a favorite author of mine, but this book wasn't. The way the book was written was too choppy, jumping off many years later and picking up the characters lives. The style made it hard to really care about the characters. Also, I don't know what the author was trying to prove, but this book tried too hard to include so many stigmas: extramarital affairs, same-sex relationships, and assisted suicide. Just not for me.

Ronni Sunshine may have been a big Hollywood star, but she was a crappy mother. Only interested in herself, she alternately ignored or verbally abused her three daughters. Nell left home to be a single mom on a farm, Lizzy built a culinary empire but lost sight of her marriage in the interim, and Meredith, who was never pretty or slim enough to suit her mother ran off to London to be with a man she’s not sure she really loves. Now, all the sisters are called home by their mother. Ronni is dying and wants her children to fulfill her final wishes. Never close as children, the three sisters return to their mother’s side out of a sense of duty. Will their close proximity be enough to let the fractured family find some measure of peace?