Book Review: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
If you love books about female friendships and the secrets that families keep, you’ll absolutely love this novel. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood review will tell you exactly what you need to know about the writing, the characters, and the absolute adventure you’ll go on reading this book.
Book Information
Sidda Walker has just gotten on her mother’s bad side for doing an interview that made her mother seem like a horrible person. What Sidda doesn’t realize, though, is that there’s so much more to Vivi Abbott Walker than her daughter may ever understand. With the help of Vivi’s lifelong friends, the ya-yas, Sidda learns that people are so much more than their mistakes. Most of all, though, she learns that the bonds between friends and the bond between women is one that is stronger than any bond she could have imagined.
Review | Heidi Dischler
I’m sure many of you reading this review are probably like, “Wow, this girl lives in Louisiana but has never read this book.” I admit, I’m guilty, and even still I only picked it up to read it because of the book club I’m in. I’m really happy I did, though. The characters, the plot, the settings and tone are so amazing in this book that I found myself smiling every time I picked it up. My favorite thing about it, though, has to be Wells’ portrayal of people in their raw, human form where mistakes are made, people get hurt, but underneath it all, we are all just trying to find our way.
Vivi Abbott Walker was larger than life in this book and even though she didn’t get the fame she so desperately wanted, she was a mother than any girl would be lucky to have. She had her flaws just like all of the other ya-yas, but she worked through them. She overcame them even when it seemed like the whole world was against her. Having Sidda slowly journey through her mother’s past was so beautiful in the way that daughters so often misjudge their mothers.
Overall, if you want a feel-good book that is going to make you look at people and their mistakes as something that does not define them, this is the book for you. If you want a book about friendship, about the bond between a mother and a daughter, about loyalty and love and the lives that become intertwined in these traits, this is the book for you. I will never not recommend this book.
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