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When We Were Sisters

By: Emilie Richards
Narrated by: Karen White, Elijah Alexander, Rachel Fulginiti
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Summary

From USA Today best-selling author Emilie Richards comes an emotional story about love, loyalty, and the deep bonds of sisterhood.

While love and loyalty made them sisters, secrets could still destroy them.

As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters they had never had. Cecelia, now a superstar singer-songwriter, is living life on the edge. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage is disintegrating. Her attorney husband is rarely home. She and the children need Kris' love and attention, but does Kris need them?

For Cecilia, a lifetime of lies has finally caught up with her, and she wants a chance to tell the real story of their childhood and free herself from the nightmares that still haunt her. When she asks Robin to be the still photographer for a documentary on foster care, Robin agrees, even though Kris will be forced to take charge for the months she's away. She gambles that he'll prove to them both that their children - and their marriage - are a priority in his life.

As the documentary unfolds, memories will be tested and the meaning of family redefined, but the love two young girls forged into bonds of sisterhood will help them move forward as the women they were always meant to be.

©2016 Emilie Richards (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Great story, irritating narration!!

This really interesting story explores the relationship between Robin and Cecilia, 2 foster sisters who take a long trip to explore and document their past and make a film about it. Along the way, we explore Robin's struggling marriage, relationship with her kids, and Cecelia's issues, her fame, her relationship with Donny, her minder. Some harrowing revelations surface towards the end, and we get a really true sense of what it feels like to be an abused foster child. The characters are all likeable and interesting.

Unfortunately this audiobook was virtually spoiled for me by the narrator who read the Robin chapters. This lady, Karen, has a reluctant, hesitant, jerky voice which left me longing for the other 2 narrators and even skipping through her chapters. A reader needs to enliven a story, to enhance it and bring it alive!Karen speaks a bit like a disappointed robot, with only 3 or 4 variations of inflection. This kills interest in the content of the story and even made me start to dislike Robin. She makes even happy passages sound dissatisfied and sarcastic. There's absolutely zero enthusiasm, no matter what's happening in the story!
It was so distracting that I actually had to keep giving myself a break from it by reading other books. It actually severed me from engaging with the story. Each word is separated like beads on a knotted string. The sentences act like train carriages being jerked along and banging into each other by a sulky toddler pulling them along on a string. It's as if she really dislikes the book and the characters, and her feelings are evident in the tone of her voice. She also reads every character's "voice" in exactly the same way, with no differentiation of personality, tone, accent or characterisation. It all sounds so reluctant and grudging.

I now check every audio book first to make sure it's not being read by this woman.

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that they were true sisters in everyway

the slow drawl voice at times was really irritating when it was not not needed, I liked to hear how the story was for every person and how it fitted together, it was amazing how so much happening to each of them deepened their feelings for each other

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Overly dramatised

I struggled through this book hoping for a twist to encourage me to listen to it further, which never happened. The sing-song voice and exaggerated accent of Robbie’s character was something beyond irritating. I’m afraid I will not recommend this book.

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