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I really enjoyed this book. It was a pretty quick read. I didn't want to put it down. I really enjoyed how the relationship between Kayla and Teresa developed. Though there was sadness in Miss Janie's situation in the end everything came together as any good Carolyn Brown book does.

I want to start by saying that I took longer to read this book than normal because I had to take breaks. See Carolyn Brown did such an amazing job with this book that I felt every emotion they felt in the story. I am not an emotional person and it takes A LOT to make me cry but this book had me crying almost every time I picked it up, and because of this I needed breaks. When I finished Miss Janie’s Girls I was in love with the book!

Miss Janie is dying and wants to see her girls one more time before she is gone. She misses them so much. She has enlisted her nephew that is a private investigator and a lawyer to help her. Now Noah is in a race to find and bring them home.

Teresa and Kayla left Birthright and Miss Janie ten years ago, and when they left, they went their own ways. Not once did they look back, the only good memory was their foster mom Miss Janie.

First Noah finds Teresa and she agrees to come home to care for the only Mother that loved her. Now she is living in her old room with Janie downstairs and Noah in another room.

With the help of Teresa Noah finds Kayla and sends a message for her to come home. Kayla is willing to come home and see what she can do to help as she is down on her luck.

Now all of them are living in Miss Janie’s house helping her as much as they can. Miss Janie has good days and bad days, and Teresa, Kayla, and Noah must work through them. They also need to face the past to move on to the future. This time together might be just what everyone needs to heal and start new.

Be sure to have some tissue nearby, you will need it.

* ARC provided by author for an honest review.

Miss Janie's Girls by Carolyn Brown left me slightly confused. The story of two girls, adopted while in high school by Miss Janie who worked at the school, have come home to take care of Miss Janie as she faces death due to Alzheimer's and bone cancer. The description of Miss Janie's decline is vivid and heart-wrenching. Obviously Carolyn Brown has done her research. As Miss Janie floats back between 16 years of age and the present time, she seems to be the only sensible one in the book. Teresa and Kayla move back after being away for 10 years and try to rebuild relationships with each other and with Miss Janie. The story is very, very good and I did enjoy the premise of the book. My only complaint is sometimes the dialogue seems to be stilted. The sentences were short and choppy and didn't sound the way the characters would speak. Teresa, who has some college education, sometimes used poor grammar. Other times, she spoke as if she was educated. I'm not sure if the bad grammar was sarcasm or if Brown truly did not realize she was doing that. If you can look past the choppy dialogue then Miss Janie's Girls is definitely a beautiful story. It should be a must-read for anyone dealing with the strains of Alzheimer's in a family.

I’ve had the pleasure of reading many of Carolyn Brown’s books, but I think that Miss Janie’s Girls may be my favorite. Readers are given the opportunity to read about the redemption of three characters as they find their true worth and happiness with it.

Miss Janie is suffering from both cancer and Alzheimer’s. Her beloved great nephew, Noah, has joined her at her home in Birthright, TX to care for her. A former private investigator and attorney, Noah also plans to help Miss Janie locate her two foster daughters and bring them home to be with her in her final days. Both Teresa and Kayla led difficult lives both before and after they lived with Miss Janie. Both return home to help care for Miss Janie in her final days.

While learning their true worth and truly becoming “sisters” for the first time, Teresa and Kayla also find true love along the way.

Ms. Brown did a wonderful job developing Teresa, Kayla, and Noah into characters who readers will come to care about and root for.

Excellent plot good development of the main characters throughout the book,lovely story line the book got you hooked from the first chapter.

Miss Janie’s Girls was a very intense read. I loved this book from the start and til the very end. Miss Janie faced some really hard times during her young life, but Miss Janie grew up to be a very strong and very caring woman. She fostered Teresa & Kayla who also faced some hard times during their youth but managed to also become very strong women and learned that you can love and trust people.

As usual this book was very good. I enjoy reading subjects like dementia. When her foster girls came home she had them mixed up with her twins that she gave up for adoption. When they were finally tracked down and came home they learned a lessen about the type of home they had there.. A GOOD READ,

I believe this is the first book I have read by Carolyn Brown & it won't be the last. In fact I went to Amazon & downloaded a couple of her other books to read after I finished this one. This book held my attention from the beginning. As a former foster parent, I was drawn to the theme of the book right away. Miss Janie is coming to the end of her life with the onset of Alzheimer's & also a diagnosis of cancer. In her early life, she had given birth to twins & her parents had made her give them up for adoption. Also while she was employed at the school district later in her life, she had become a foster parent to two unrelated girls. Her nephew and both of the girls come to help with her end of life. The relationships in this book are both fill with tension and heart-warming at the same time. Again I can't wait to continue reading more books by this author!!!

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the book publisher & NetGalley. I gave my honest review of the book.

This is a beautiful book but I'm not sure I would call it a romance exactly. There is romance in the book for both Teresa and Kayla (and Noah, the nephew) but any romance is secondary. Really, this felt more like a family saga, a drama about healing from really difficult pasts and coming to redefine what family really means. It was well written and detailed, leading to heightened emotions as the cast of characters fought against their pasts and their losses, including the inevitable loss of Ms. Janie, who has both cancer and Alzheimer. The battle against Alzheimer, especially, was detailed and heartbreaking and there were many times I really wanted to take a break because I felt so bad about what all the characters, including Ms Janie, had to go through. But I read on, really appreciating how well the author teased emotion out of each character and built a beautiful hopeful world for some lost souls. There were some slow parts in the book, borne from all the details but overall, I enjoyed the book. I received an early copy from NetGalley.

have read a lot of Carolyn Brown's books and this is the first time I have mixed feelings about it.

Janie's story was heartbreaking, how her parents treated her was just cruel. Not physically but mentally cruel. She fosters two young girls who had troubled pasts, even though they were shown love from Janie they disappear for years. Years go by and Janie's nephew Noah, who also had a difficult childhood, returns to her to find the girls she had fostered years ago to bring them home to her at a hard time in her life.

This story was heartbreaking on so, so many levels I struggled with the story line and had to push myself through it. The other thing that made it a struggle for me was how repetitive parts of the story was, it was like groundhog day in some parts.

It is a story about forgiveness, rediscovery and making up for past mistakes and honouring the memory of a loved one.

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Another great book by a wonderful author. This one has Miss Janie, an old spinster from Texas, who is dying from cancer and has Alzheimer as well. When she knows time is limited, she asks her great-nephew Noah to find her two foster girls. Teresa was the first one, and as she had training working with the elderly she fit right in. Kayla was the next one to be found, and both helped take care of Miss Janie. At first the two fought like cats and dogs, but slowly came to find comfort and kinship.The book made me laugh, cry and smile a lot. Highly recommend this one. Hard to put down.

Teresa and Kayla don’t have a lot of happy childhood memories. The only place the former foster children felt any love at all was with foster mom, Miss Janie. They have no intention of returning to small town Texas or seeing each other ever again. But Miss Janie is dying and she won’t rest easy until she sees her girls again. This is a bittersweet story about trying to see past the bad times and daring to hope for a better future

This book tackles a tough issues such as elder care and dementia but with love and compassion. Foster kids return home to see their dying foster mother, Miss Janie as her final wish is to have the "family" together before she dies. The girls struggle with their complicated histories and seeing Miss Janie further descend in her dementia.

It's not all doom and gloom - the book is about what makes a family, finding your way home and rising about the odds are against you.

Miss Janie’s Girls is another of Carolyn Brown’s beautiful stories about what constitutes family. Teresa and Kayla, who were fostered by Miss Janie, are pressured by Noah, Jane’s great nephew and attorney to return and assist the dying woman during her final weeks. The girls have to learn to let go of their past perceptions of themselves and each other to be able get along to make their foster mother comfortable. Many secrets are revealed in the process and new plans are made. I love that this author is able to reveal the deepest fears and longings of her characters without drowning her readers in angst. Trusting self and others plays an important role in the plat. I love that she uses the lyrics of familiar songs to illustrate her characters personalities more fully. I love that she has lived long enough to have learned what truly matters and shares those insights in her stories. I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book from NetGalley. Most highly recommend.