HER SISTER’S SHOES by Ashley Farley & GIVEAWAY

Her sister’s shoes proves the healing power of family .

Nothing is a better set-up for a women’s fiction novel than three sisters and their shoes. Miss Ashley Farley hits pay dirt with the subject of her new book, HER SISTER’S SHOES (Leisure Time Books).

Jackie is the oldest sister and she’s about to turn fifty. She’s a perfectionist, her twin boys are growing up and not needing her help and she’s just found out hubby’s having an affair. Hello, mid-life crisis!

Middle sister, Sam has always held the family together, but with her son now in a wheelchair after an ATV accident her nerves are beyond frayed. She still has the family seafood business to run, which has seen better days and she’s putting away a few too many drinks.

Youngest sister, Faith lives in a trailer with an unemployed loser who never works, but finds the money and time to drink and abuse her and their daughter. He finally goes too far and Faith turns to her sisters for help, putting them all in danger.

Lovie is Jackie, Sam and Faith’s mother. She’s the glue that keeps the family together, but she’s getting more forgetful and absentminded. None of them wants to believe its dementia or Alzheimer’s, but the symptoms are getting worse, so they start talking about a retirement home.

Each of the Sweeney sisters is juggling challenges in the low country of South Carolina in her own way. Ashley Farley is really talented at giving each sister a unique voice and creating real-life situations many readers maybe dealing with in their own lives. My only suggestion is that an editor tighten up HER SISTER’S SHOES – perhaps cut fifty pages. I believe that would make it more pithy and succinct. Ashley Farley captures the realities of family love, being there for each other, despite being pushed away and ultimately family loyalty.

Thanks to TLC Book Tours and Leisure Time Books, we have one copy of HER SISTER’S SHOES to give away to one lucky winner. Just leave a comment about any relationship you have with your sister or sisters. We’ll pick a winner Friday.

 

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About Ashley Farley

Ashley Farley is a book blogger at Chronicles and author of Saving Ben and Her Sister’s Shoes. She is a community volunteer in Richmond, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and two college-aged children. Visit her website at www.ashleyfarley.net, connect with her on Facebook and Twitter, and friend her on Goodreads.

Thanks to TLC Book Tours http://www.tlcbooktour.com  for including us on this blog tour and for providing a copy of HER SISTER’s SHOES for an honest review.

Please feel free to check out   http://www.cindyroesel.com   for more of my reviews and news about my novel, “Viewer Discretion Advised.”

TRAIL of BROKEN WINGS by Sejal Badani

There’s an often heard maxim, “we’re as sick as our secrets.” Sejal Badani’s novel, TRAIL of BROKEN WINGS is all about one family’s attempt to let go of the burden and shame of their secrets.

When the patriarch of an Indian family now living in America falls into a coma, its culturally expected that his three daughters will be there to support their mother. All horrors performed by their dying father and husband are to remain unspoken, but the longer he remains silent in the coma, the louder the burden of each daughter’s story of shame grows.

Sonya is a successful photographer who left many years ago when she was twenty-one, but she can’t turn her back on her mother. Her sister, Trisha has gone full steam creating the perfect suburban life for her CEO husband. And Marin is a Silicon Valley-MBA raising a tiger family, who are ready to rebel.

Each family member has their own pressure and stress that they’re dealing with, in addition to the uncertainty of whether or not Grandpa Brent will live or die. Suddenly the family is brought together, forced to look at their individual buried secrets, the unspoken undercurrents and shame which have been silently simmering for years. Each sister knows the other’s secrets, even mom knows and has stayed silent; finally all the participants are together because of the one person who created their pain.

TRAIL of BROKEN WINGS is a story of survival and a liberating celebration of speaking out and owning one’s truth.

Purchase Links

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About Sejal Badani

Sejal Badani is a former attorney. She currently lives on the West Coast with her family and their two dogs.

If you or anyone you know is being abused or in an abusive relationship, there is help. DO NOT LET YOURSELF BELIEVE IT IS OKAY! IT IS NOT! GET OUT NOW! Go on-line and check out   http://www.domesticshelters.org  … You just put in you address and zip code and the nearest safe place will pop up on the screen.  Or you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 … write that down … Help is available!

THE MERMAID’S CHILD by Jo Baker

THE MERMAID’S CHILD by Jo Baker is a fairytale for grownups. It tells the story of a young girl, an outcast named Malin Reed. She grows up hearing tales that her absent mother is a mermaid. After her father dies, she’s left alone with her grandmother who gives her away. Thus begins her life of labor and abuse.

She begins a grueling fantastical journey in search of her mother. Malin’s travels take her across oceans, continents, high seas and deserts. She’s sold into slavery, a circus, almost beaten to death coming across sporadic people who care briefly for her.

Malin is a strong-willed, determined young girl, who persists against insurmountable odds, believing she will one day find her mother.

“I swam away, straight out to the sea. They would come for me, I was sure of it. My mother’s people would come for me.”

Jo Baker is known for writing this kind of fantasy. This was my first exposure and the repeated violence was too much for me. There is an audience for this novel, but it’s not my cup of tea. Jo Baker has written several other novels. I may take a look at one of them.

Thanks to Netgalley http://www.netgalley.com and Random House for providing a kindle copy of THE MERMAID’S CHILD for an honest review. Check out http://www.jobakerwriter.com for all things JO BAKER.

Go to http://www.cindyroesel.com to check out all my reviews and to read about my novel, “Viewer Discretion Advised.”