Sole Sister Review
Relocating
to Nashville to be closer to Harley and Miah, Kat aspires to launch her Sole
Sister fashion line. A gutsy and impromptu plan suddenly lands her on
the cover of The Ville Spill—the local celebrity gossip
rag—alongside country music’s latest heartthrob, giving Sole Sister the
push it needs. But Kat quickly learns that not all press is good press.
Years
removed from an abusive childhood and teenage pregnancy, the past that Kat
never talks about continues to seep into her life and relationships. Still
struggling with the images of finding her father after his suicide, Kat forges
ahead, vowing to avoid past mistakes. To focus on her career and
responsibilities as a single mother, she swears off the disappointments of
love. The first man she ever loved, her father, broke her heart. The first boy
she ever fell in love with, her daughter’s father, broke her heart.
What
Kat didn’t plan on was Nashville SWAT Officer Connor Reese. She and Connor have
more pulling them together than keeping them apart. Kat finds herself in
familiar territory when her plan to steer clear of heartache is derailed after
spending a night in his arms. Will facing her past help to secure her future?
Will Connor offer her a second chance at life and love? Or will her heart break
yet again?
Staying
true to its predecessor, Sole Sister explores the dynamics of
strength in sisterhood, the ongoing conflict and unconditional love between
mother and daughter, and the courage to become more than one’s past.
Sole Sister (2015), the second installment to The Boots My
Mother Gave Me, is about finding forgiveness after two sisters endure the
loss of their father to suicide. In The Boots My Mother Gave Me (2010)
Harley LeBeau leaves Georgia, Pennsylvania in search of herself. In the
midst of chasing after her dream of becoming a singer she falls in love with,
neighbor boy, Jeremiah 'Miah' Johnson, elopes to Hawaii, and gives birth to
twins, Gia and Jackson, all with her almond intact and with Charlene
the Chevelle barreling through on auto pilot.
Sole
Sister is
the continuation of Harley's life as a daughter, sister, aunt, mother, wife,
and singer/songwriter told from Kat's, point of view. Kat learns to do life
with a teenage daughter while giving entrepreneurship the good ol' college try
in lifting her business off the ground. Of course, Sole Sister wouldn't
be a Brooklyn James kind of read without a love story and with some hot and
steamy romance.
James takes her readers to that place of
vulnerability that gives the quintessential meaning to family, career, and love
while finding the balance to make each work independently and simultaneously.
If you're a single woman in search of her soulmate,
you need to read this book. If you're a childless woman wanting/needing
children, you need to read this book. If you're a teenage girl, you need to
read this book. And if you're a Grammy, you need to read this book. Brooklyn
James does a terrific job of bridging the gap of three generations of
sisterhood.
I found myself angry, frustrated, happy, sad, and
irritated. I also found myself laughing out loud with purpose. I was excited
for new found opportunity, yet angry at haters hating on success. I was giddy
with Harley's and Kat's sisterly love and playfulness. No one can quite tell
Harley to shut her candy hole quite like Kat. I was also sad to
experience the roaring anger of oppressing the feelings of their father's
suicide, but relieved when forging forgiveness.
James has the uncanny ability to pull her readers
through a compelling story while capturing intense visualizations with
intention. She keeps it genuine and real. It's a page-turner to boot.
Sole Sister is the heart and sole of The Boots
My Mother Gave Me.
Brooklyn James is an author/singer/songwriter
inspired by life in the Live Music Capital of Austin, Texas.
Her first novel, The Boots My Mother Gave Me, has an original
music soundtrack and was chosen as a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon
Breakthrough Novel Awards. This book has ranked in Kindle's Top 100 Coming of
Age and Women's Fiction.
When she is not writing books, she can be found playing live
music around Austin as part of an acoustic duo. Brooklyn has been in a Weezer
video, met Harry Connick Jr. as an extra on the set of When Angels
Sing, and she was Mira Sorvino's stand-in on Jerry Bruckheimer's Trooper pilot
for TNT. She most enjoys being a wife and mother, reading, dancing, working
out, fishing with her hubby, and a good glass of kombucha.
Brooklyn holds an M.A. in Communication, and a B.S. in both
Nursing and Animal Science. Her nursing career has seen specialties in the
areas of Intensive Care and Postpartum. She serves as a Guest Speaker with a
focus on awareness and prevention of Domestic Violence and Suicide.
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You can also find her music on Amazon, iTunes, CDBaby, YouTube,
and Pandora.
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