You cannot convince me these people actually like each other. The number of times they were talking trash about each other was ridiculous. I get that friends fight and have little quarrels, but like...they were lowkey horrible to each other at times and would turn around and be like "you're my sister" "these are my girls" "my soulmates" yadda yadda. Also, the things these girls were complaining about pissed me off lol. All of them had valid reasons to be upset with the situations in their lives, but several of them had easy solutions that they refused to consider. Yasmeen's financial issues were upsetting of course, but her toxic, gold digging, convict boyfriend needed to go. Don't get me started on Pookie *thumbs down*. Toni's fertility issues were upsetting, but the lack of, and refusal of, necessary conversation with her FIANCE about that and her blackmailing ex made me so mad. Like would you rather trap him in a marriage?? Celeste went through something traumatic, but to refuse to go to therapy to help yourself and save your marriage like (?) and then to complain about it is wild. Like get the help you need, you've made it clear you have the money to do so. The only person I felt bad for in the slightest was Leslie's daughter Nadya. She literally told Leslie she didn't feel well, and she made her go to gymnastics instead of taking her to the doctor and later found out she was dealing with a life-threatening condition. And yet, amidst all of that, Leslie found out she was adopted? And selfishly sought out her birth parents to spite her father and hurt him but disguised it as finding a donor for Nadya. JUSTICE FOR EDWIN my goodness.
The writing itself felt choppy, I didn't like the use of a lot of pop culture slang, a lot of the dialog felt forced, and there was zero use of "show don't tell."
I will say that I liked some parts of the book. The drama was interesting and entertaining despite the immaturity of the characters (I thought they were supposed to be full grown adults?)
I was also under the impression the book would be more focused around them opening and running a bookstore together but that was saved for the very end. Which made sense within the context of the rest of book and its focus on the FMCs life struggles...but STILL.
Overall, it wasn't TERRIBLE, but it was disappointing. Communication does not exist in these girls' lives and "sisterhood" is a strong word in my opinion. It was entertaining, but hard to get through. There was a lot of potential, but I felt like it was poorly executed.