When Ava Nickerson was a child, her mother jokingly betrothed her to a friend's son, and the contract the parents made has stayed safely buried for years. Now that still-single Ava is closing in on thirty, no one even remembers she was once "engaged" to the Markowitz boy. But when their mother is diagnosed with cancer, Ava's prodigal little sister Lauren comes home to Los Angeles where she stumbles across the decades-old document.Frustrated and embarrassed by Ava's constant lectures about financial responsibility (all because she's in a little debt. Okay, a lot of debt), Lauren decides to do some sisterly interfering of her own and tracks down her sister's childhood fiancé. When she finds him, the highly inappropriate, twice-divorced, but incredibly charming Russell Markowitz is all too happy to re-enter the Nickerson sisters' lives, and always-accountable Ava is forced to consider just how binding a contract really is . .( Goodreads.com)
It was good story on sisters and their relationship. I found out that I related more to Ava. I was always pretty responsible with money. I liked that it mentioned contracts and upholding them. I did think that there was alot of stereotypes being discussed about women and men. Is a man gay because he works in the fashion industry ? or Because someone is trying to make a person look better, are they trying to change them ? Through out the book there was discussions about fashion and makeup. I liked that the sisters were discussing sharing clothes, I remember having many discussions with my sisters about this topic.
There is reading group guide which did get me thinking about the characters and what they did or acted through the story. This is chick lit. It was a fast read for me.
I have read her other book : Knitting under the influence and I liked it too.
I give this 3 out 5 stars. I will be sharing this book with my friends to read. Its that good.
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I'd like to read the book! My sisters and I didn't really fight. We stuck together and fight with my older and younger borthers. Kind of funny!
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ReplyDeleteMy sister is 3 years older than me so some years we were okay but others not at all. We fought over what we wanted to watch on TV, me wearing her clothes, and the chores she would only do and made me do the crap jobs.
Now we are close but the teen years were rough!
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I shared a room with my two sisters. It was a small room to boot. The one thing that seemed to cause any trouble was that they were messy & I was tidy & organized. I liked our room to be clean :-). It was hard to keep clean with the 3 of us sharing a tight space.
ReplyDeleteLove my sisters to this day & am thankful for their friendships
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ReplyDeleteHeather --My sister and I fought alll the time growing up. she hated me and would beat me up for no reason. Now that we are older we are best friends and people always ask me how I can be friends with her after the way she treated me while we were growing up and I tell them Its because we are sisters!
ReplyDeleteI did not fight with my sister because, unfortunately, I did not have one.
ReplyDeleteI loved knitting under the influence. You pick some great authors!! I want it :O)
ReplyDeleteMe and my sisters would fight about anything and everything it seemed. I remember our favorite saying used to be, "you're not my best friend anymore". We would break up the BFF friendship with one so she would be our BFF. It was always back and forth.
ReplyDeleteSince I was 12 years older than my sister, we didn't really become friends until she was older. Our biggest issue was that I would "mother hen" her too much. I have tried to stop that now that we're both mothers!
ReplyDeleteFor the life of me I don't remember if we ever fought about anything. I have 4 sisters and the only fight that I can think of was when I told my sister that she wasn't pretty. I still regret it to this day - I can still remember the hurt in her eyes after I said that.
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