Twisted Sisters, Jen Lancaster
Twisted Sisters, Jen Lancaster
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Twisted Sisters

Author: Jen Lancaster

Narrator: Jen Lancaster

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/04/2014


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is “as adept at fiction as she is at telling her own stories” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). And now in her new novel, reality gets an unreal makeover…

Reagan Bishop is a pusher. A licensed psychologist who stars on the Wendy Winsberg cable breakout show I Need a Push, Reagan helps participants become their best selves by urging them to overcome obstacles and change behaviors. An overachiever, Reagan is used to delivering results.

Despite her overwhelming professional success, Reagan never seems to earn her family’s respect. Her younger sister, Geri, is and always will be the Bishop family favorite. When a national network buys Reagan’s show, the pressures for unreasonably quick results and higher ratings mount. But Reagan’s a clinician, not a magician, and fears witnessing her own personal failings in prime time. (And seriously? Her family will never let her hear the end of it.) Desperate to make the show work and keep her family at bay, Reagan actually listens when the show’s New Age healer offers an unconventional solution…

Record Nielsen ratings follow. But when Reagan decides to use her newfound power to teach everyone a lesson about sibling rivalry, she’s the one who will be schooled…

About The Author

Jen Lancaster is the New York Times bestselling author of ten books. She has appeared on Today, The Joy Behar Show, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and their ever-expanding menagerie of ill-behaved pets.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela on February 09, 2014

Reading this reminded me of a quote from an episode of Will & Grace, where Taye Diggs' character says: "If this isn't the theater showing 'Memoirs of a Geisha' then why are all of these people coming out going "eh"?" Yup, that's all I could think about when I thought about writing this review. Eh. Eh......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on December 01, 2013

Really disappointed in this book. Generally love this author, but this one was just not good. Very slow to start, pacing totally uneven, and the bizarre twists did nothing to advance the story. I didn't like the main character at all (I think that was supposed to be the point)but there was no lead i......more

Goodreads review by Darcy on March 01, 2014

Oh Jen Lancaster, I'm so sorry for giving this book a horrid review. I love her blog/Facebook posts but I feel that this one was so far from her style. I loved her earlier memoir-type books and I enjoyed the first one of her novels. The Martha book was lacking something for me, and this one was just......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on February 10, 2014

I love Jen Lancaster and have read all of her books, but this one was a real bomb. Contrived and copied ideas abound throughout--she references her own work too much and the main characters job was a riff on an Oprah show/network. Plot jumped around so much that I truly thought my e book had elimina......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 23, 2014

Ah…the joys of sibling rivalry. There are many readers out there who have been the one to stand in the ever-expanding shadow of the ‘family favorite’ - the sister who seems to be accomplishing ‘SO much more than you are.’ This book not only offers the immense humor and sarcasm that will keep readers......more


Quotes

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF JEN LANCASTER

HERE I GO AGAIN


“This is the only book in twenty years that made me wipe my eyes. Jen Lancaster’s like a modern-day, bawdy Erma Bombeck....I couldn’t put it down!”—Lisa Lampanelli, New York Post

“Entertaining, humorous, and well-written, and the characters are perfection.”—Examiner.com

Mean Girls meets Back to the Future…scathingly witty and lots of fun.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A charming comedy in the vein of movies like Big and 13 Going on 30….Readers will find it easy to root for the frank and funny heroine of this winsome, whimsical tale.”—Booklist (starred review)

IF YOU WERE HERE

“A perfect summer read.”—USA Today

“Witty and hilarious.”—People (3½ Starts Out of 4)

“Bitter may well be the new black, but If You Were Here is the new funny.”—Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Backseat Saints

“Turns out, Jen Lancaster, who was already a master of memoir, is a genius at fiction.”—Beth Harbison, New York Times Bestselling Author of Shoe Addicts Anonymous