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Love know no color. I tell my kids this all the time. This book was very well written, just a beautiful story. I loved Annie and Jed. I cried at the beginning and at the end. Just a special read.

Loved every moment of my journey with everyone in resort. Each character grew, learned about each other and themselves. Love, loss, sweetness, all bring this lovely story to life

The Sometimes Sisters is a great book. Well written with a well crafted plot and characters. I enjoyed this author’s writing and definitely will be reading more of her books.

Carolyn Brown is one of my "go to" authors. The Sometimes Sisters was a lovely, lovely read. Highly recommended!

I really liked the dynamic between the "sometimes sisters". I liked how they slowly revealed themselves and found solace in each other. Maybe the sometimes sisters can learn to be a family after all.
Some parts were definitely predictable and some of the off focus commentary that could be leading to more but never did was a little off. But overall I really liked Harper, Tawny, Dana, and Brook. I felt that Brook was a really great character to help the sister's see the potential that was in each of them and helped bring them together as a family.

An enjoyable story, following the Clancy family as they negotiate tragedy and love and try to heal old wounds. The lakeside setting of this book was perfect as the sisters were flung together after years of turbulence and difficult family relationships. I was rooting for everyone to come together during the difficult times they were faced with and I especially loved the Uncle Zed character for his strength and purity of heart. Thanks NetGalley!

Fantastic story! Loved the coming together of the sisters.

Lovely book to read. Family sisters are everything. or are they. Very different look at a family brought up different from the most. Well written and very enjoyable.

Great story from one of my favorite authors. Carolyn Brown's stories are always heartwarming. Highly recommended.

This book was a very medium paced. I wasn't hungry to get back to it each day, however each time I opened it, I was interested in it. The story line moved along at a sort of slower Southern pace. I was interested in each of the three sisters, and where their lives were taking them. I also appreciated that the loss of their grandma is what ultimately brought the broken relationship together again. Uncle Zed was my favorite character of all. I actually wished he and Annie's story were a bit more developed.

Love, Love, Love this book. This author did a wonderful job of telling the stories of three sisters that were pulled apart for various reasons. I think the biggest thing I took from this book is to trust your family to not judge you. The sisters all thought that there families would judge them and not help them. Grannie Annie was truly a wonderful person as was Uncle Zed. Grannie Annie knew she had to get the sisters together and unfortunately it waited until after she had passed to happen. Truly enjoyed this story and the tears that were shed were well worth it!

Such a great book! Each story was linked, but held its own. I felt that this family had so much heartache and pain, but came through the story strong and healthy on the other side. This author is extremely good at building complete and complex stories that will have you tearing up for happy reasons right along with the sad. I loved this book. The characters were well written, the storyline was smoothly written and the story was very realistic.

This is a fantastic story about three sometimes sisters. Dana is the oldest. Dana was born when her father was still in high school, and he never did claim her as his own. However, her Granny Annie, his mother, welcomed her with wide open arms. Harper came next, ten years later. She had a good life until she was about sixteen, when the worst possible thing happened, and she has lived with it ever since. Tawney came last, and she also led a challenging life, piling up, as with the others, secrets that regularly come back to haunt her. The sisters, along with Dana’s 14-year old daughter, come back to the lake resort Granny Annie owned and ran when Granny Annie dies. There they find that Granny’s longtime partner and friend Zed, and, from Granny’s lawyer, learn Granny has left instructions for them to help keep the resort running. The three sisters and Dana’s daughter plunge into the business, as each learns to accept and understand the secrets from their lives that have led them to where they are.

This is a wonderful story about how family is tied together in ways most do not even recognize or understand, but which will ultimately make us better people, Granny Annie’s partner/companion, Zed, has a special place in the lives and discoveries of these women, as they learn to live with and overcome obstacles that have kept them apart and marked their lives, while working together at the resort. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the women grow and learn to become loving sisters and a loving family as I read the book. As I said, Zed has a special place in this book, bringing it all together in his own special way. This is a book that will touch the heart of readers everywhere. I am sure every reader will enjoy it as much as I did. If I could have given it more than five stars, I would have. I received this from NetGalley to read and review.

The Sometimes Sisters
Carolyn Brown
Available: February 27, 2018

Thank you to NetGalley.com for the opportunity to read an Advanced Reader Copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
Carolyn Brown writes sweet stories. I like to think she’s the Debbie Macomber of the South. When you pick up The Sometimes Sisters, you know you’re going to get a sweet tale with a little sadness along the way that will end with everyone meeting their true love match and knowing that they’re all going to be okay. Pure, simple fluff – and I’m glad I started out 2018 with such a sweet novel.
What I loved: Zed – he is an amazing character that I would have loved to see more of through his backstory. He faced so much – forbidden love, bigotry, fighting a war, amazing friendship. To see more of his history with Annie would have been a treat.
What I didn’t love: How do these people not have diabetes with all of the candy, desserts, and pure sugar they ingested? An extended time line would have been a little better – seriously everyone falls in the perfect love they need within a month? Some recipies at the end would have been a nice touch as well.
What I learned: The heart wants what it wants.
Overall Grade: B+

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This story line deals with how 3 sisters deal with sisterhood. Each woman has the same father but where not raised together. This book has lots of emotion and drama. Very well written with characters that grab at the heartstrings

I received an arc copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for my honest opinion of it. It's sad when families are not close and sisters are not what they should be to each other. It was just okay for me.

Full review to be published online in mid February.

THE SOMETIMES SISTERS is the story of sisters who see and interact with each other in a limited basis. Harper and Tawny live a life of hell with their distinctly non-maternal mother, and even though their father lived with them until his death, he would not cross her.
All three sisters have burdens to overcome...but the strong foundation of love laid by Annie and Zed enables them to get past the hurts of childhood and meld into a strong family unit. As they heal they find their 'meant to be.'

THE SOMETIMES SISTERS brings tears, smiles, laughs and sighs. It's the work of a master storyteller; and Carolyn Brown has done herself well here.

Carolyn Brown is a consummate weaver of tales. This is no exception. Not only are we treated to the sister's journey to love and family, we are given the gift of the romance between Grannie Annie and Zed in flashbacks and his conversations with her spirit.
Dana, the eldest, born out of wedlock believes her sisters have a better life.
Harper and Tawny live a life of hell with their distinctly non-maternal mother, and even though their father lived with them until his death, he would not cross her.
All three sisters has burdens to overcome...but the strong foundation of love laid by Annie and Zed enables them to get past the hurts of childhood and meld into a strong family unit. As they heal they find their 'meant to be.'
The tale brings tears, smiles, laughs and sighs. It's the work of a master storyteller.
I requested this book on NetGalley as soon as I saw the author because I knew it would be enjoyable

Dana, Harper and Tawny see themselves as “sometimes sisters”. They share blood but they are not friends.

Dana was born first. Her parents were in high school when she was born and her dad never claimed her. But her Granny Annie welcomed her into the family with open arms.

Harper followed ten years later and then Tawny. The girls all had the same dad but he only claimed the two later children.

They only saw each other for one month every summer at Granny Annie and “Uncle” Zed’s property. They owned a little business where people can rent cabins and fish at the lake.
But as the girls grew older, they stopped coming.

So they have continued to grown further apart throughout the years. Each girl also faced their own personal dramas and instead of confiding in each other, they let their secrets push them away from each other.

Now Granny Annie has passed away and left the business to her grand daughters. Her and Zed’s wish is that the girls (and Dana’s daughter) will finally become real family.

Well written characters, believable drama, and you cannot help but love Uncle Zed and Granny Annie.

I got to read an early copy of the e book through NetGalley. Very enjoyable story!