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Sisters..., October 4, 2010
This review is from: When I Get Where I'm Going (Paperback)
We cannot choose our parents, but we can choose the choices we make to live our lives happily. In When I Get Where I'm Going by Cheryl Robinson, Heaven Jetter, Hope Jetter, and Alicia Day are sisters, trying to do their best with what they have. Each one of these ladies have some serious decision making to do. The choices they make will alter their life in more ways than they could ever have known.
Up until Heaven receives a letter from her estranged father, she believes Hope is the only sister she has. However, the letter tells her about Alicia, her half sister. Even though Heaven is the youngest of the three, she is the one with the gumption to seek out a relationship with the sister she never knew, trying to extend her family. While she is attempting to have a relationship with Alicia, Hope continues to pull further and further away from her.
Hope is grieving and angry. Her husband died on a boating accident and the one man that knows what happened is avoiding her. She needs closure in order to move on with her life. Will she ever find the answers to all the questions surrounding her husband's death?
Alicia has been trying for years to be a top name actress in Hollywood. The movies she has been in are successful enough to get her name out to the masses. She finds herself heading back to Detroit when on thing after another keeps happening to her. Will she ever figure out what she is missing in order to achieve her dream of stardom?
I enjoyed the escapades of these three women. The reactions they each had regarding their situation were very real. The one thing that bothered me was reading about the death of Hope's husband. While I understand authors get their story ideas from the news, one of the subplots surrounded a major news story, which made me a little leery. However, with an unexpected twist, Ms. Robinson made that part of the story hers. I recommend When I Get Where I'm Going to readers of contemporary fiction and stories about dysfunctional families.
I received a copy of the book from the publisher for review purposes.
Jennifer Coissiere
APOOO BookClub
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Shed these sin & struggles I have carried all these years..., September 16, 2010
This review is from: When I Get Where I'm Going (Paperback)
Fans of Theodore "Tower" Evans, Porter Washington, Georgia Brown, and Olena Day, take note! Here's the story of a tragedy that one family cannot seem to get away from, that is until they realize you gotta be in it to win it. Sisterhood is winning, moving pass family dysfunctions together and ultimately being free; is the winning ticket.
When I Get Where I'm Going opens with a letter addressed to Heaven from her dad. In his letter it is his prayer that all of his letters are being forwarded to Heaven's new address and all of his girls come together as a family. He also tells Heaven a secret he's been keeping for quite some time; that aside from Hope she has another sister name Alicia Day; who at last contact lived in the Detroit area. Her father wants Heaven to search for her and bring unity between herself, Hope and Alicia. What these three sisters don't know but will come to know and understand is each one of them has the cure for what ails the other.
Ms. Robinson stories are written with a grand passion for her craft and the characters she introduces us to and When I Get Where I'm Going certainly doesn't fall short. All the people I mentioned in the beginning of this review are taken from her previous books. They like Heaven, Hope and Alicia have left an impression on this reader. Throughout the book there's a recurring theme that is never quiet; when you pour life into someone your life becomes blessed. I'm sure Alicia can say amen to that after she was told by Attorney Foxmoore that she was NOT going to be sued. You'll have to read the book to find out more about that. (Smile)
When I Get Where I'm Going is a story of pain, regrets, family dysfunction, celebration and how sisterhood is the beginning to overcoming it all. I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet Alicia in Robinson's previous book "In Love with a Younger Man and Heaven Jetter at her blogspot back in March.
Missy
Readers Paradise
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A satisfying read!, September 8, 2010
This review is from: When I Get Where I'm Going (Paperback)
Alicia Day is a struggling actress originally from Detroit, now living in Hollywood. When she headed west with her best friend, Aubrey, both were determined to become the next big thing. So far Aubrey has made it big, but the only big things about Alicia are the fibroid tumors she keeps ignoring.
Hope Teesdale lost her second husband in a boating accident. At twenty-seven she's too young to be the bitter, widow that she's become. She's locked into her small corner of the world that consists solely of work and her daughter, Havana.
At only twenty, Heaven Jetter has lived entirely too much. As a child she grew up knowing that her father had killed her mother. This alone should have been enough to keep her from abusive men and the mean streets of Detroit, but it hasn't. She's a born party girl and even though she knows that her actions hurt those closest to her, she can't stop.
Heaven and Hope grow up as sisters, but it's not until a letter from their imprisoned father comes to Heaven that she learns that they have an older sister, Alicia. Alicia is thrown off by the brash, in your face young lady that reaches out to her long distance. A trip home solidifies their relationship, but trying to create a happy family complete with Hope is going to be a lot more difficult than either Heaven or Alicia imagined.
What did you like about this book?
Each of the sisters is a mess and the author doesn't try to "prettify" their situations. Each is dealing with realistic issues and I fully appreciated the author exploring them.
What didn't you like about this book?
The story is told in third person narrative for the most part and I really would have preferred first person, especially since each character is given their own chapters to tell their stories.
What could be done to improve this book?
It's so minor that I feel silly even typing it, but I hated the cover model's cankles. Yes, I said cankles. How do I know that her calves and ankles are the same size, thus producing cankles? I don't. It just looks like it to me. Could be the cheap red shoes or the fact that I hate seeing heels like that worn with jean, I don't know. I just hate the look.
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