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Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman.

It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy—an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel’s marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she’s been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.

Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother’s affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she’s pregnant. Yet just when Leia thinks she’s got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie’s been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family’s freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows.

My Thoughts: The first person voice of Leia Birch Briggs brings the reader into The Almost Sisters: A Novel, the story of a young woman with a unique perspective on life; a woman who, as a girl, was often overshadowed by her stepsister Rachel, the blond pretty one. Rachel, who has a picture perfect life, but who is so determined to hold onto what is hers that she bit Leia when they were toddlers for calling Keith, Rachel’s father, “daddy.”

A girl like Leia has to carve out her own unique world and stand proud when others do not understand her. Even with Leia’s success, Rachel condescends and refers to her work as “your drawings.”

So when Rachel starts having marital problems, I wanted to smirk a little.

Meanwhile, in Birchville, Leia’s grandmother Birchie is going through some medical issues, so Leia, newly pregnant, and not having told anyone about her situation, drives to the rescue.

A lovely story that captivated me from the very beginning, I wanted to root for them all, even Rachel, eventually. The flavor of the South drew me in, as each character revealed his or her unique Southern charm…and sometimes meanness.

I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen to them all. Would Leia and her baby daddy reconnect? Would Rachel soften up her hard, mean shell? And how would Birchie’s secret change their lives? 5 stars.


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The Almost Sisters A Novel Joshilyn Jackson 9780062105721 Books Reviews

Oh my, but Joshilyn Jackson has done it again with this book! I couldn't put it down!

I dearly loved her protagonist, Leia (named after my favorite princess), and all she brought to the table. Her comic book and the descriptions of it were fascinating. The parts she talked about were the parts I find fascinating in comic books (and in Jan Brett's children's books, honestly) - all the surroundings that tell more of the story than the words on the page. I was intrigued by her doodling when she was stuck with this or that and where it took her.

Rachel was fascinating to me and reminded me that you never know what another person might be dealing with, even when the person appears to be perfectly put together.

I've never lived in the South, but every time I read one of Jackson's books, boy do I get a sense of how it must be.

Birchie and Wattie reminded me of my beloved Gramma and Auntie Janty (collectively referred to with love as The Grannies). They lived together the last 20ish years of their lives and both dealt with memory loss in different ways as they advanced in age, but they also helped one another and were sweet and wonderful Grannies with such love to share.

I look forward to reading this again and again. And I must say, my nerdy heart LOVED that She-Hulk gets a shout out in the book!!
Joshilyn Jackson’s novel THE ALMOST SISTERS has many moving parts. Let’s start with what happens straight away. The protagonist, Leia, finds herself all cozy in her hotel room with a man she’s just met. She doesn’t know his name or what he looks like. Why, you wonder? Because he’s dressed as Batman. No, they are not trick or treating. They are at a comic convention. Leia is a well-known graphic novelist and Batman, well he is a super fan. The author has carefully woven the comic heroines as a parallel throughout the book enough so that even if you are not a comic book junkie, you will appreciate it. Moving on.

Leia has a situation with her stepsister. Her stepsister’s husband. When she turns to her stepsister, well, that is not going to work. Her grandmother, a pistol and the belle of the town that is named for her family, has suddenly taken ill, which is now news to the entire town thanks to some naughty language in church one Sunday. Leia must go to her, all the while, keeping her stuff a secret because she is not ready to tell her mom and stepdad, given all that is going on with the family. She heads down to Birchville to be by Birchie’s side, accompanied by her stepsister’s daughter Lavender, her niece.

Are you following me. If you are not, don’t worry, that’s why the talented author has put this all together much more neatly in her book. The plot thickens. In a small southern town, oh how the gossip mill turns quickly and it is non-stop. I doubt one Birchville resident has any followers on IG because they are not even on social, and no need because all it takes is just one busy body and news spreads like wildfire.

I can’t tell you much more without spoiling the fun but suffice it to say that there are some good twists, turns and secrets revealed. You think you will guess them, but even if you know you know, keep reading. THE ALMOST SISTERS has all of the drama. We’re talking family issues never resolved, forgiveness, mayhem, racism to the highest degree, and good old teenage angst. I would be totally down with a sequel.
Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman.

It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy—an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel’s marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she’s been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.

Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother’s affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she’s pregnant. Yet just when Leia thinks she’s got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie’s been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family’s freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows.

My Thoughts The first person voice of Leia Birch Briggs brings the reader into The Almost Sisters A Novel, the story of a young woman with a unique perspective on life; a woman who, as a girl, was often overshadowed by her stepsister Rachel, the blond pretty one. Rachel, who has a picture perfect life, but who is so determined to hold onto what is hers that she bit Leia when they were toddlers for calling Keith, Rachel’s father, “daddy.”

A girl like Leia has to carve out her own unique world and stand proud when others do not understand her. Even with Leia’s success, Rachel condescends and refers to her work as “your drawings.”

So when Rachel starts having marital problems, I wanted to smirk a little.

Meanwhile, in Birchville, Leia’s grandmother Birchie is going through some medical issues, so Leia, newly pregnant, and not having told anyone about her situation, drives to the rescue.

A lovely story that captivated me from the very beginning, I wanted to root for them all, even Rachel, eventually. The flavor of the South drew me in, as each character revealed his or her unique Southern charm…and sometimes meanness.

I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen to them all. Would Leia and her baby daddy reconnect? Would Rachel soften up her hard, mean shell? And how would Birchie’s secret change their lives? 5 stars.