dgignac's review against another edition
4.0
Another great book in this series. I was upset after finishing the first book to discover that this book wouldn't be focused on the same main characters. However, this book was great as well. Overall, I found these 3 characters to be a little more difficult to relate to. However, I still loved following their journey throughout the book.
kbranfield's review against another edition
5.0
A recommended read. With her Blackberry Island series, Susan Mallery brings her readers stories about realistic characters whose lives are far from perfect. The second installment, Three Sisters, is a touching and heartfelt novel that is deeply compelling and full of emotion. The main characters are three very different women who form an unlikely friendship as they cope with some serious challenges in their private lives. Please click HERE to read my review in its entirety.
beckybutkus's review against another edition
5.0
I loved the book. It left me wanting to read more about the Blackberry Island.
marbles66's review
5.0
Absolutely loved this book. I think it is one of the best Susan Mallery has written. Three houses sit in a cul de sac and are called Three Sisters. Deanna and Boston both inherited their houses but Andi buys the middle one after she has been jilted at the alter. This is the story about their lives, loves, heartaches, and their roads to recovery. You will laugh and you will cry reading this book but you won't be able to put it down.
Publisher's Weekly calls New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery's prose "gritty and magical" and "luscious and provocative." Now she returns to Blackberry Island, the tight-knit community introduced in Barefoot Season, with the story of three women whose friendship will change their lives forever.
After Andi Gordon is jilted at the altar, she makes the most impetuous decision of her life--buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island. Now the proud-ish owner of the ugly duckling of the trio, she plans to open her own pediatric office on the first floor, just as soon as her hunky contractor completes the work. Andi's new future may be coming together, but the truth is she's just as badly in need of a major renovation as her house.
When Deanna Phillips confronts her husband about a suspected affair, she opens up a Pandora's box of unhappiness. And he claims that she is the problem. The terrible thing is, he's right. In her quest to be the perfect woman, she's lost herself, and she's in danger of losing her entire family if things don't change.
Next door, artist Boston King thought she and her college sweetheart would be married forever. Their passion for one another has always seemed indestructible. But after tragedy tears them apart, she's not so sure. Now it's time for them to move forward, with or without one another.
Thrown together by fate and geography, and bound by the strongest of friendships, these three women will discover what they're really made of: laughter, tears, love and all.(less)
Publisher's Weekly calls New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery's prose "gritty and magical" and "luscious and provocative." Now she returns to Blackberry Island, the tight-knit community introduced in Barefoot Season, with the story of three women whose friendship will change their lives forever.
After Andi Gordon is jilted at the altar, she makes the most impetuous decision of her life--buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island. Now the proud-ish owner of the ugly duckling of the trio, she plans to open her own pediatric office on the first floor, just as soon as her hunky contractor completes the work. Andi's new future may be coming together, but the truth is she's just as badly in need of a major renovation as her house.
When Deanna Phillips confronts her husband about a suspected affair, she opens up a Pandora's box of unhappiness. And he claims that she is the problem. The terrible thing is, he's right. In her quest to be the perfect woman, she's lost herself, and she's in danger of losing her entire family if things don't change.
Next door, artist Boston King thought she and her college sweetheart would be married forever. Their passion for one another has always seemed indestructible. But after tragedy tears them apart, she's not so sure. Now it's time for them to move forward, with or without one another.
Thrown together by fate and geography, and bound by the strongest of friendships, these three women will discover what they're really made of: laughter, tears, love and all.(less)
madamelibrarian's review
2.0
Not as good as the first
I get the theme of this book, which I won’t explain so as not to spoil the plot, but I think the development of that theme was a little far fetched. I like the secondary characters (and the children) much better than the primary ones!
I get the theme of this book, which I won’t explain so as not to spoil the plot, but I think the development of that theme was a little far fetched. I like the secondary characters (and the children) much better than the primary ones!
reesiereads's review
4.0
I love a story about the friendships between women. This one had the added bonus of a couple of difficult topics that I thought the author handled beautifully.
I liked all 3 MCs equally, but I was particularly drawn to the character of Deanna. She had the "perfect family" on the outside, while on the inside, she suffered from a pretty severe case of OCD and a need to have control over every single thing in her home, her marriage, her children. It was due to her abusive upbringing and that part really touched me on an emotional level. I felt so bad for this woman and her need for control because it was what her feel safe after childhood of never having that safe feeling. She was taken in by relatives as a pre-teen and was told to be "perfect" if she wanted to stay there, and I think she took that very very seriously. If things were not perfect, she felt as if she would end up kicked out of the house. As she became a wife and mother, she thought if things were perfect, everyone would love her. Of course, her family felt stifled by her overbearing nature. I don't want to spoil the outcome of that particular storyline.
On the other side, there is Boston, who also seems to have a happy marriage, a husband who can't seem to keep his hands off his adored wife. Well, on the inside, they are suffering, too! Boston and her husband have suffered a loss that is very heartbreaking and they have to work their way through that and figure out how to find a way back to each other and to heal both separately and together.
The character who might be the main-main character is Andi. She has been dumped by her fiance of a lot of years (I forget how long they were engaged, but they'd been together for 10 years) because he wasn't "ready" for marriage! Well, a few months later, he ended up married to his secretary! Yeah, don't you hate when that happens??? So, we get to see Andi learn to find confidence in herself as a woman after that devastating blow to the ego. She is new in town so she's trying to make friends and figure out how she fits in.
Recommended if you enjoy stories of female friendship and other drama. It can be a bit repetitious in some regards (mentioning the past, the OCD symptoms, etc) but overall, I liked this a lot. I like how the title represented both the names of the three houses that the women lived in, as well as them becoming "Sisters" of the heart.
I liked all 3 MCs equally, but I was particularly drawn to the character of Deanna. She had the "perfect family" on the outside, while on the inside, she suffered from a pretty severe case of OCD and a need to have control over every single thing in her home, her marriage, her children. It was due to her abusive upbringing and that part really touched me on an emotional level. I felt so bad for this woman and her need for control because it was what her feel safe after childhood of never having that safe feeling. She was taken in by relatives as a pre-teen and was told to be "perfect" if she wanted to stay there, and I think she took that very very seriously. If things were not perfect, she felt as if she would end up kicked out of the house. As she became a wife and mother, she thought if things were perfect, everyone would love her. Of course, her family felt stifled by her overbearing nature. I don't want to spoil the outcome of that particular storyline.
On the other side, there is Boston, who also seems to have a happy marriage, a husband who can't seem to keep his hands off his adored wife. Well, on the inside, they are suffering, too! Boston and her husband have suffered a loss that is very heartbreaking and they have to work their way through that and figure out how to find a way back to each other and to heal both separately and together.
The character who might be the main-main character is Andi. She has been dumped by her fiance of a lot of years (I forget how long they were engaged, but they'd been together for 10 years) because he wasn't "ready" for marriage! Well, a few months later, he ended up married to his secretary! Yeah, don't you hate when that happens??? So, we get to see Andi learn to find confidence in herself as a woman after that devastating blow to the ego. She is new in town so she's trying to make friends and figure out how she fits in.
Recommended if you enjoy stories of female friendship and other drama. It can be a bit repetitious in some regards (mentioning the past, the OCD symptoms, etc) but overall, I liked this a lot. I like how the title represented both the names of the three houses that the women lived in, as well as them becoming "Sisters" of the heart.
asalters's review against another edition
4.0
What did I think? First off, I might be a little biased because I enjoy Susan Mallery's books IMMENSELY! I have fallen in love with her Fools Gold series and I have yet to come across any of her other books that I don't enjoy. Now, what did I think of Three Sisters? I enjoyed it, it was one of those types of books where you can totally feel the emotions the characters are feeling. I don't want to get into too much detail and give away parts of the book. I'm a firm believer in not spoiling the surprises but the characters each faced difficulties in their lives and the journey they took to get to their ending was heartwarming and I might have needed a tissue here and there.:)
nae1226's review against another edition
1.0
After Andi Gordon is jilted at the altar, she makes the most impetuous decision of her life—buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island. Now the proud-ish owner of the ugly duckling of the trio, she plans to open her own pediatric office on the first floor, just as soon as her hunky contractor completes the work. Andi's new future may be coming together, but the truth is she's just as badly in need of a major renovation as her house.
When Deanna Phillips confronts her husband about a suspected affair, she opens up a Pandora's box of unhappiness. And he claims that she is the problem. The terrible thing is, he's right. In her quest to be the perfect woman, she's lost herself, and she's in danger of losing her entire family if things don't change.
Next door, artist Boston King thought she and her college sweetheart would be married forever. Their passion for one another has always seemed indestructible. But after tragedy tears them apart, she's not so sure. Now it's time for them to move forward, with or without one another.
Thrown together by fate and geography, and bound by the strongest of friendships, these three women will discover what they're really made of: laughter, tears, love and all.
When Deanna Phillips confronts her husband about a suspected affair, she opens up a Pandora's box of unhappiness. And he claims that she is the problem. The terrible thing is, he's right. In her quest to be the perfect woman, she's lost herself, and she's in danger of losing her entire family if things don't change.
Next door, artist Boston King thought she and her college sweetheart would be married forever. Their passion for one another has always seemed indestructible. But after tragedy tears them apart, she's not so sure. Now it's time for them to move forward, with or without one another.
Thrown together by fate and geography, and bound by the strongest of friendships, these three women will discover what they're really made of: laughter, tears, love and all.