"Letters from My Sister" is the story of two sisters, Emmy and Callie, set in early 1900s rural Alabama. It's the tale of a family that has an incredibly enlightened view of race relations versus the outside forces that battle against that. Callie suffers a brain injury and amnesia related to a mysterious event one night. What will be revealed when she recovers her memory?
The book moves at an incredibly slow pace. I didn't mind that at first, but the exposition kept going and going. It's not until about 60% through the book that we even hit the point of conflict. When we finally hit the denoument, it was a total let down. The resolution made the conflict out to be next to nothing. The antagonist was flat and did little to contribute to the central conflict. The title was also a complete misnomer. I expected a lengthy series of letters exchanged between the two sisters that would flesh out the conflict. There were only five, and they contributed little to the story. The romance in the story was quite contrived and illogical. The main couple basically had one date and then end up married. I would have liked to see more nuisance there.
This was a story with great potential that fell short of the mark. I received an advanced reader copy as part of the Revell Reads blogger team in exchange for my honest opinion.
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