In The Company Of My Sistahs [Paperback]

Angie Daniels (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2006

From acclaimed author Angie Daniels comes an exciting new novel that asks: Exactly how much trouble can four sexy, sassy, and stubborn women get into when they spend a week in Jamaica together? The answer: Plenty...

For years, Lisa Miller has been living the good life--and watching her sister, Renee, and their childhood friends search for happiness of their own, usually in the form of a man. Tired of standing by while they waste their time looking for love in all the wrong places, Lisa has planned a vacation in Jamaica with them. She has some bad news to break, but she hopes her own heartache will make a difference in the lives of the women she loves...

Renee Moore is a twice-divorced romance writer and mother of two who plans to use her time in Jamaica sipping Rum Punch, sun-bathing, and finding that perfect fling. After all, the friends have agreed: what happens in Jamaica stays in Jamaica.

Attorney Nadine Hill may have it together professionally, but personally, she's a mess. Maybe because she's been fighting her true desires for too long--desires that may include an attraction to women.

The daughter of a Baptist minister, Kayla Sparks dreams of marrying a man of the church. When a handsome Reverend walks into her life, she thinks he is a gift from God... But his wife would probably disagree.

Through laughter, tears--and a few squabbles--one by one these ladies will start to look at themselves, their lives, and their futures, in a whole new way.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

When Lisa's cancer returns, she plans to tell the women closest to her while they vacation in Jamaica. She hopes by sharing her medical condition they will make life changes. Her sister, Renee, is quite unhappy with her third husband. Yet she feels obligated to him because he provides a lifestyle she could never achieve on her own. Kayla is an overweight mother of two. Her insecurities about her appearance allow her to accept less than what she deserves. Her clandestine affair with a preacher has her settling for sex instead of love. Nadine is an attorney who seems to have everything together. Yet she is involved in a relationship that has her questioning her sexuality. Each woman comes to the island to escape their realities and live out the Hollywood fantasy of finding romance in the Caribbean. Just when they are at each other's throats, Lisa drops the news of her illness. One year later they keep their promise to Lisa and vacation in Jamaica. The reader will enjoy every dramatic but sensitive page. Lillian Lewis
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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (February 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758207433
• ISBN-13: 978-0758207432
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #708,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Angie Daniels loves a page turner and strives to write novels pulsating with drama. The award winning author has written over twenty novels including In the Company of My Sistahs, Trouble Loves Company and Careful of the Company You Keep. She has a degree in Human Resource Management and currently lives in Virginia with her family. Visit her at www.angiedaniels.com.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In the Company of My Sistahs by Angie Daniels: An PeoplewholoveGoodBooks Review, January 23, 2006

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Shay C (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In The Company Of My Sistahs (Paperback)

Lisa, Renee, Nadine, and Kayla are childhood friends who have planned a vacation in Jamaica, little do they know that this trip may forever change their lives. Lisa and Renee are sisters and Lisa is hiding a secret. She has cancer and must have surgery to save her life but first she wants Renee, Nadine, and Kayla to change theirs.

Renee now on husband #3 and mother of 2 has spent her life looking for the love and approval of her step-father but finding it in the wrong men and for the wrong reasons. Currently separated from her husband, Renee is looking to have a good time and believes that "What happens in Jamaica, stays in Jamaica!" but after an one-nite stand,she gets more than she bargained for when she's ready to let go but he isn't. Kayla is plus-size and beautiful but suffers from low self-esteem and is in love with her married boyfriend Leroy, who is also the preacher of her church. Believing he is going to leave his wife and be with her, Kayla is shocked to learn his wife is pregnant. While in Jamaica, she meets a man who appears to appreciate her for the woman she is, will she finally be able to leave Leroy alone for good? Nadine believes that she has found her soulmate in Jordan but she is unable to accept the fact that she has fallen in love with a woman. Afraid of being disowned by her family, she is on the verge of losing Jordan unless she can finally accept that when it comes to love, does gender truly matter?

In the Company of My Sistahs is a fast-paced read that is a wonderful story about friendship, love, betrayal and drama that will make you laugh and cry as you join these ladies on their adventure. If you liked Angie Daniels' previous books, Love Uncovered and When It Rains, you will LOVE In the Company of My Sistahs. I give this book 5 stars! Reviewed by Shay C of PeoplewholoveGoodBooks

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sex on the Beach, April 21, 2006

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Dera R Williams (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In The Company Of My Sistahs (Paperback)

Lisa Miller is facing a hard time in her life. She must tell her sister and two closest friends she has cancer. In order to break the news to them gently, she arranges a trip to the island of Jamaica in romance writer's Angie Daniel's mainstream fiction, a sort of Sistergirl meets Women's fiction in In the Company of my Sistahs.

The story is told from the perspectives of four thirty-something women. Renee, Lisa's sister is the only voice told in first person and whose story appears to be the main focus. Renee is a piece of work. A romance writer, she is loud, boisterous and curses like a crew of sailors. She has a one track mind, in search of sex, sex and more sex, running after anything in pants. Oh and by the way, she is married. She has a long distance marriage and has to make a decision if she will finally join her husband out of state.

The other stories including Lisa's were told in third person. Lisa has the great husband, career and financial stability only to find her self with ovarian cancer and unable to have children. Kayla is overweight, besieged with low self-esteem and is involved in an affair with her married pastor who keeps telling her he is leaving his wife. Will a new love be just the change she needs? And as the Sistergirl theme has evolved in the new millennium, the story would not be complete without one of the women being on the down low and that would be attorney Nadine, who is trying to come to grips with her lesbianism.

With the theme of one of the women having a serious illness, I wanted this novel to be more than a 1990s Sistergirl theme, where the women talk ugly to one another and who continually back themselves into inappropriate situations in regards to men but there was not anything that made this novel stand out from the crowd. In Women's fiction, it is supposed to be all about the emerging growth of the women characters. In that respect, other than Lisa who was already grounded, Nadine was the only one who seemed to grow by accepting her lesbianism. Renee had no boundaries in her life or her friendships and this reviewer found it hard to picture her as a successful author with the hood rat persona she wore so boldly. And poor Kayla-she could not buy a clue-was destined to live a life of low self-esteem and poor self-image, accepting the leavings of others, letting life happen to her.


I wanted to separate myself from my feelings of these hard to digest characters from the plot of the story but unfortunately it fell flat. The issue of Lisa's illness was pushed to the background and not addressed until the last fifty or so pages while Renee's shenanigans overshadowed everything else. There were too many repetitions, reoccurring scenes and major storylines were wrapped up quickly in the last few pages.

The lovely setting in beautiful Montego Bay is what kept me going. The author did a good job with placing readers on this beautiful island and the descriptions of the marketplace, vendors and Jamaican natives were well done. The portrayals of the main characters were well developed as were the depictions of the Jamaican men as vibrant, virile lovers.

Dera Williams
APOOO Book Club

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly Surprised, February 10, 2007

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R. Tinsley (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In the Company of My Sistahs (Paperback)

I was desperate to read a good book, and I read this book and was really pleasantly surprised by how good it was. I liked all the characters in this book. This book was easy to follow and hard to put down once you start reading. I initially thought this would be in similarity to How Stella Got her Groove Back, but I think it was better. This book is about 4 women who share special bonds. One woman is dying of cancer and suggests a trip, so that she can break it to her 2 friends and sister that she is fighting a losing battle. Her sister is in a loveless marraige, and is very promiscuous with others. One woman's marriage has fallen apart and she is now fighting to find out who she is and has discovered she is a Lesbian. The other woman is overweight, and a single mother, and as many insecurities, she rely's very much on her religion. She has accepted a relationship with the Reverend at her church, and is convinced he will eventually leave his wife for her. This book is good, its about the love and bonds, that these women share, and acceptance of one another. They gain closure from eachother. You wil grow to love and hate the women in this novel, but overall it was really good. I think whoever purchases this book will really enjoy it, I did!!