Random Things Tours: Sisters by Judith Barrow

Separated by a tragedy, sisters Angie and Mandy do meet after over a decade for their mother´s funerals. A deep burried secret is about to resurface, despite the distance Mandy put between them. A traumatic event that led to the death of their baby brother shaked dramatically this beautiful happy family. As Mandy took over herself Angie´s fault, she decided to leave her family behind and start a completely new life, with a new name, in a new place.

I am personally interested in books with a family secret/trauma plot. Sisters promises and delivers a lot of suspense, but also unleached passion and emotions, and not only regarding the direct relationship between the two main protagonists. At the end of the book, it leaves you a lot of food for thought about family relationship and sisterhood, but also about what really makes a family and its web of more or less open secrets.

Sisters is an intense novel, which plays on the fire of emotions, sisterhood rivality and strong emotions. Although the emotional background is tense, the characters do define themselves other than through the reactions to extraordinary circumstances. There is a large constellation of hard topics, such as bullying, marital abuse etc., adding even more tension to the story. However, the author balances well the emotional part with the purely story-development part. 

It is a book that stayed with me long after finishing it both in terms of emotional take and topics addressed. 

Rating: 4 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own