{"id":4437,"date":"2013-05-15T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:10:01","slug":"i-am-your-sister-season-2-by-ericka-k-f-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"I am Your Sister: Season 2 by Ericka K. F. Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 <\/strong>EKS Books, Apr.\u00a02013
\nGenre(s):\u00a0 <\/strong>Romance, Religious, Family, Stud’s Point of View
\nPages:\u00a0 <\/strong>287
\nWebsite:\u00a0 <\/strong>http:\/\/www.ekfsimpson.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong> \"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"★\" <\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n

Forgiveness. An 11-letter word whose concept is hard to give and even\u00a0harder to do.<\/p>\n

It is also Symone\u00a0Holmes\u2019 Achilles heel, and the emotional theme flowing through Ericka K. F. Simpson\u2019s I AM YOUR SISTER: SEASON 2<\/i><\/b>. The college basketball star is all grown up in the sequel to the previous I am Your Sister<\/em><\/a>, but she learns life gets harder out of school and off the court.<\/p>\n

At the novel\u2019s start, Symone\u00a0has a female b-baller’s\u00a0dream:\u00a0she’s the top draft pick for\u00a0the WNBA,\u00a0 about to\u00a0graduate college, and\u00a0considering\u00a0forever with the love of her life, Regina. Nothing could make the point guard\u00a0happier. Then she gets a phone call that her mother has had a stroke \u2013 and it brings her unhappy history with her mother front and center.<\/p>\n

The relationship between\u00a0Symone\u00a0and her mother Paula became rocky\u00a0the summer before\u00a0her sophomore year in high school when it was \u201cdiscovered\u201d that Symone\u00a0liked girls. Through flashbacks,\u00a0a\u00a0flood of painful memories\u00a0continue to haunt Symone, reliving\u00a0her mother\u00a0practically disowning her.\u00a0Paula refused to acknowledge her daughter’s lesbianism, and their bond disintegrated\u00a0to zero contact. Moving on with her life, it took being away at school for Symone to put the past behind her but she never forgave\u00a0her mother or herself.<\/p>\n

This guilt takes its toll on her relationship with Regina in ways Symone\u00a0didn\u2019t realize. It’s the answer to why she is never able to fully open up. Why she feels she couldn’t\u00a0bring Regina home to her family. Why never she allows Regina to share in her past hurts. Really, Symone could blame her generational curse for her inability to share her emotions, passed on from the male elders in her family, but she knows she can\u2019t rely on excuses when both her mom and her future wife need her. It\u2019s time to truly play ball, and this time, she needs this victory to heal her heart.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve mentioned before that I am Your Sister<\/em>\u00a0is one of my\u00a0favorite books, mainly because Symone\u00a0is such a complex\u00a0character. Simpson puts her everything into Symone, and after reading her memoir, Living With 3 Strikes<\/i> <\/a>(which you should definitely pick up), I understand how Simpson is\u00a0inspired\u00a0by her own experiences in IAYS2<\/i>. This\u00a0gives Symone the touch of realism that I\u2019ve come to expect from this writer.<\/p>\n

Symone\u00a0is deeply-drawn, far from perfect, and trying on her adulthood with the help of God. She doesn’t pretend to be something she’s not and doesn’t apologize for whom she is. There’s also a down-home appeal to this Virginia-reared stud, one I found refreshing.<\/p>\n

I am Your Sister 2<\/i>\u00a0does have its minor flaws \u2013\u00a0\u00a0the ending left me flabbergasted \u2013 but between the laughter and the \u201cwows\u201d I had while reading\u00a0convinced me that I will always have a soft spot for Symone Holmes.<\/p>\n

Now I’m ready for another season.<\/p>\n

Reviewed May 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 EKS Books, Apr.\u00a02013 Genre(s):\u00a0 Romance, Religious, Family, Stud’s Point of View Pages:\u00a0 287 Website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.ekfsimpson.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I am Your Sister: Season 2 by Ericka K. F. Simpson http:\/\/wp.me\/p3r7qG-19z @ekfsimpson"},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,84,186,195,327,390,401,473,528],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}