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Playing the Sister Card
309 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2026
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August 23, 2026
Playing the Sister Card follows four sisters as it explores how experiences can shape relationships all the way into adulthood. Jane wants to introduce her boyfriend of two years to her sisters but is reluctant due to unresolved history & what bringing Laurie into the family dynamic might uncover.
The dynamic between the sisters was my favourite part. The disagreements, the bickering & unresolved tension yet underneath there was a real sense of love & loyalty. All this comes with being family & made the characters feel relatable.
Alongside the here & now the author delves into when the sisters were young & the impact their mothers death had on them. This gave the story it's emotional depth. It made me think about the secrets families keep & that actually someone usually ends up hurt in the end.
Overall it's a thought provoking character driven story about family, loyalty, love & unresolved history.
Thank you to Novel Tours & The Book Guild Publishing for a copy of the book.
The dynamic between the sisters was my favourite part. The disagreements, the bickering & unresolved tension yet underneath there was a real sense of love & loyalty. All this comes with being family & made the characters feel relatable.
Alongside the here & now the author delves into when the sisters were young & the impact their mothers death had on them. This gave the story it's emotional depth. It made me think about the secrets families keep & that actually someone usually ends up hurt in the end.
Overall it's a thought provoking character driven story about family, loyalty, love & unresolved history.
Thank you to Novel Tours & The Book Guild Publishing for a copy of the book.
August 26, 2026
Huge thank you to @novel.tours @thebookguildpublishing for this early copy and my spot on this mini-tour.
This book is the perfect family saga. I can’t believe how much we get to experience from the POV of FMC and youngest sibling, Jane. The story is packed with insights into how this family (focusing mainly of the four sisters) functioned throughout years of ups and downs.
The family navigate marriage and relationships, children, careers as well as parents aging, trauma as well as other trials and tribulations. I adored this look into the complexities of ‘family’ and it was a great read.
The pacing worked really well and the author covered such a vast amount of time brilliantly. I enjoyed reading from Jane’s POV and realising things as she did as the years passed.
What I enjoyed about this book was that it was real. Nothing was perfect (and far from it at times). Family is complicated. There are many chapters in life and, although people are related, there can be difficult situations that arise that cause relationships to drift, deteriorate and change. Sometimes, it’s not always clear what happened to create huge voids in a relationship and, as the book highlights, sometimes this happens because people are only focused on their perspective and their day-to-day. What I also appreciated within that writing was that it reminded me that some things can only become clearer with time and, commonly, experience and understanding as we get older. I loved that some aspects of the story did get clarified before the end, and other things were left unsaid. I’m still not clear on a few things that happened between a couple of the sisters in their own personal relationships, but that was intentional by the author. Like Jane, as a reader, I have been left to infer, make assumptions and accept I won’t know the ins and outs of every situation, only what I am privy to.
This book is the perfect family saga. I can’t believe how much we get to experience from the POV of FMC and youngest sibling, Jane. The story is packed with insights into how this family (focusing mainly of the four sisters) functioned throughout years of ups and downs.
The family navigate marriage and relationships, children, careers as well as parents aging, trauma as well as other trials and tribulations. I adored this look into the complexities of ‘family’ and it was a great read.
The pacing worked really well and the author covered such a vast amount of time brilliantly. I enjoyed reading from Jane’s POV and realising things as she did as the years passed.
What I enjoyed about this book was that it was real. Nothing was perfect (and far from it at times). Family is complicated. There are many chapters in life and, although people are related, there can be difficult situations that arise that cause relationships to drift, deteriorate and change. Sometimes, it’s not always clear what happened to create huge voids in a relationship and, as the book highlights, sometimes this happens because people are only focused on their perspective and their day-to-day. What I also appreciated within that writing was that it reminded me that some things can only become clearer with time and, commonly, experience and understanding as we get older. I loved that some aspects of the story did get clarified before the end, and other things were left unsaid. I’m still not clear on a few things that happened between a couple of the sisters in their own personal relationships, but that was intentional by the author. Like Jane, as a reader, I have been left to infer, make assumptions and accept I won’t know the ins and outs of every situation, only what I am privy to.
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