The Chicken Sisters
Ratings6
Average rating3.7
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Ratings6
Average rating3.7
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!"--Reese Witherspoon Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state--and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No one feels the impact more than thirty-five-year-old widow Amanda Moore, who grew up working for her mom at Mimi's before scandalously marrying Frank Pogociello and changing sides to work at Frannie's. Tired of being caught in the middle, Amanda sends an SOS to Food Wars, the reality TV restaurant competition that promises $100,000 to the winner. But in doing so, she launches both families out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. . . The last thing Brooklyn-based organizational guru Mae Moore, Amanda's sister, wants is to go home to Kansas. But when her career implodes, helping the fading Mimi's look good on Food Wars becomes Mae's best chance to reclaim the limelight--even if doing so pits her against Amanda and Frannie's. Yet when family secrets become public knowledge, the sisters must choose: Will they fight with each other, or for their heritage?
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I read this as it filled a prompt for a reading challenge I'm doing. I wish they had of finished the reality show and then maybe had a bit at the end 3 months on with how everyone was doing.
Usually I don't keep up with book clubs like Reese's or Oprah's, but I thought this one looked cute. I love chicken too, so a food book is always a good idea! When the audiobook was available in my Libby library, I borrowed it.
I started the book earlier this month, after I started my orientation for work. The book begins by explaining how the original sisters were Fred Harvey Girls. The sisters didn't like Mr. Harvey's rules, so they left and opened a restaurant on the railroad track route. This backstory surprised me, as the company I work for has Fred Harvey roots!
Anyway, I enjoyed this book. At first, I thought one sister would be the “villain”, but the other sister turned out to be the bad one. I liked how it focused more on the family relationships and not the romantic side ones.
Sidenote: I listened to a good chunk of the book while driving to and from Phoenix to visit my family while my sister, niece, and nephew were still in town. I will post about that separately!
Blame the genre if you want, but this was another Reese pick that was just “Meh” for me. This book can be broken down into three parts. In the first part, the two main characters had a distinct voice, but the older sister was depicted as selfish and horrible. The second part, the two main characters had a voice swap where the younger sister was the annoyingly bad one. And then for the last bit the two voices were indiscernible between the sisters. In the week of filming, they apparently morphed into the same loving and caring being... I do like the discussion it brings towards hoarding and being messy as a result of mental distress as opposed to simple laziness. This book maybe would have grated less if one of the main characters were gay, instead of the token best friend, but that's just a personal gripe.
