Once in a Blue Moon

I recently got the chance to read a new book by Eileen Goudge called Once in a Blue Moon. This was my first time hearing about the author, so I really wasn’t sure what to expect from the book. Well, I have to say, that once I got started reading it was hard to stop. I really wanted to know what was going to happen to the characters next!

It is a story about two sisters who find each other after being apart for years and years. They each have very different lives, and at the heart of the story is how they learn to be sisters again. Of course, there are many other things that happen as well, and other fun and colorful characters that make the book a really interesting read.

Sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls’ mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care.

Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister. The owner of a bookstore in the sleepy California seaside town of Blue Moon Bay, she was lucky enough to have been adopted by a loving couple. Unbeknownst to her, Kerrie Ann has suffered a very different life. Bounced from one foster home to the next, she ran away as a teenager before becoming a drug-addicted single mother. Now, newly sober, Kerrie Ann is fighting to regain custody of the little girl who was taken from her.

Neither sister’s expectations are met when they’re finally reunited. But as the two sisters engage in the fiercest battles of their lives, they are at last drawn together despite their differences, restoring belief in the unshakable bond of family.

I have to say I really enjoyed this book a lot! There was a lot of language (F-bombs and such), so if that bothers you a lot you might not enjoy the book as much. However, it was fitting to the character and I didn’t feel like it detracted at all from the story (sure there could have been less and it would have been fine too). Other than that I have no complaints!

To learn more about the author, visit her website at EileenGoudge.com. She has other books as well, which I look forward to reading now that I have read this book. Thanks to the One2One network for providing the review copy of the book, and introducing me to a great author!

books | Aimee | October 19, 2009