Another winner from Susan Mallery! Sisters, Harper and Stacey are very different but support each other. Their lives are complicated but they manage to make it through dealing with love, loss, and their mother, Bunny. I loved this well written book about relationships and sisters.

This series is a departure from the usual light hearted romances from the author. Here in Mischief Bay, California the author takes a deep look into the strengths and frailties of human relationships. This book is about the complicated nature of women's relationships ~ mothers, daughters, sisters and wives and the every day challenges women face.  
Harper has always been a home body, encouraged by her mother to be that perfect homemaker. Forced by divorce to fend for herself she creates a virtual assistant business that she can run from home while still attempting to be a perfect daughter and mother. For a woman like me who rarely cooks I chuckle as she guiltily orders pizza or confesses to her daughter that they need to get take out as she hasn't had a chance to cook.
Her sister Stacey is a far cry from a home maker. With a double PHD she's researching a cure to human disease. In her third trimester she panics at the thought of becoming a mother. In fact she still hasn't told her mother about her happy event for fear of her mother's acerbic comments about her ability to raise children.  Her husband Kit is a treasure. Ladies if any of you come across a man like him, snatch him up and make him yours immediately.
Their mother Bunny is like a drama queen. She expects perfection from Harper and nothing from Stacey. Living in the mother-in-law apartment with Harper she's in and out of Harper's home commenting on her daughter's choices.  Of course the other young woman is Harpers teenage daughter. Even as Harpers tries to make her world revolve around her daughter her increasing focus on her business is creating a distance between a young girl on the cusp of womanhood who wants to be liked and fit in.
As these women's stories weave in and out of the various other relationships and choices they make in their day to day living we get to meet Lucas, Harper's top client who not only gives Harper advise but also becomes the surrogate dad her daughter needs. I absolutely loved the empowering cameos as these women face down various circumstances and more than hold their own.
This is a great read for women seeking inspiration and empowerment. The romance however is a bit of an afterthought and the happy ending is very rushed. It feels as though the author suddenly realized that she didn't have enough words left to write an effective happy ending.
This is definitely not one of my favorite books from an author who I have on auto buy.

I ended up liking this book much better than I did a few chapters in. The main characters, two sisters, Harper and Stacey, as well as their mother, Bunny, and Harper’s daughter Becca, were all annoying and I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to spend a few hours in their company.

Harper is an uptight Martha Stewart who has to make everything perfect for her family, which is now just her teenage daughter since her husband left her for a younger woman. She’s trying to make a go of a business she created to be a virtual assistant to people who need someone to do all sorts of mundane to interesting tasks for them. She’s a doormat for her mother, daughter, and business clients. I just wanted to smack her and tell her to stick up for herself.

She’s trying to win the approval of her obnoxious mother who seems stuck in the 1950s where men are always right and women are meant to serve them. Bunny can’t stop herself from little digs at Harper for not pleasing her husband enough and then daring to try to earn a living instead of spending all her time on her daughter.

That daughter, Becca, seems a stereotypically self-centered teen girl who is also going through her own problems dealing with her parents’ divorce and her best friend moving away. She takes her insecurities out on her mother.

Meanwhile, Harper’s younger sister, Stacey, is the exact opposite. She’s a medical research scientist who is also about six months pregnant and totally insecure about whether she can be a decent mother. She seems totally disconnected from her pregnancy and resists any discussions of her baby such as buying furniture and preparing a room for the new arrival. I’m no sure how someone six or seven months pregnant can be seemingly so unaware of her pregnancy until someone mentions it. A woman might be unhappy or nervous about being pregnant, but it’s rather hard to ignore the fact that she’s pregnant.

So all the women are annoying and need a big gulp of wake-up juice. Fortunately for them, the three younger women all have guys in their lives who seem to be much better than they deserve. Stacey’s husband, Kit, is eager to be a stay-at-home father and is gentle and loving taking care of his wife. Any woman would love him for a husband. Stacey and Kit have given his nephew the chance to stay with them before he goes off to MIT for college. The nephew is a super nice and smart kid who has had a tough time in foster care because his mother is an addict. He’s also hot-looking and falls right away for Becca. He’s even such a great guy that he doesn’t press her for sex like the other teens in her circle are doing.

And Harper has Lucas, one of her clients, the police partner of the hero from an earlier book in the series. Lucas is such a great guy who seems to really care for Becca and steps in to give her fatherly advice and teach her how to drive since her real father is an uncaring loser of a dad. His only problem is that, as a 50-ish guy, he likes to date women in their 20s with names like Persimmon because he doesn’t want to risk actually falling for a woman. But he is falling for Harper and helping her get through her tough times as well as helping both her and Becca to grow up.

The guys are much more appealing than all the women so the main tension in the book is whether the women can grow up enough to be worthy of them. This is less a romance book than a women’s fiction sort of book. Too bad because I liked the guys a lot more than the women.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Harper is a divorced Mother to a teenager struggling to pay her bills who sets impossibly high standards for herself. Her daughter Becca grows more distant every day. Her sister Stacey is a successful professional married to a wonderful man and about to be a Mother. Stacey is afraid she won’t be a good Mother. She doesn’t feel any connection to the baby she’s carrying. The women’s Mother, Bunny, is overbearing and critical.

This is a story about family dynamics and relationships. This book addresses the relationship between sisters, mothers and daughters and romantic interests. Bunny wasn’t a very likable character for most of the book but by the end you understood where she was coming from. I liked the sisters but both of them needed to take a chill pill. They set impossibly high standards for themselves. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

At the start of this one this family is a hot mess. It was interesting to see how each woman pulled themselves together. I liked how Harper learned to stand up for herself in all aspects of her life. By letting some things go she was able to have a fuller life. Becca was your typical teen, one who only thought of herself. I loved the ally she found, the lessons Becca was taught, she was a much better person by the end. Bunny drove me nuts, hated how she made everything about herself. I was a bit surprised that Stacey ended up being my favorite. She comes off cold, but she isn't, she's just clinical, her mind very practical. I loved how Stacey welcomed Ashton, how she kept letting him know he was very welcomed within her family. Stacey's motherhood dilemma had me smiling, I think mostly because she kept confiding in her dog and learning lessons from her too. By the end of the book you know all of these women are on the right track in their lives.

This is the 4th book in the Mischief Bay series. In this title Harper is still dealing with her divorce and has started a Virtual assistant job to pay her bills. She is dealing with her teenager daughter Becca who seems to not care about her anymore and after all that having to deal with an overbearing mother who believes if Harper was a better wife her husband would not have left. Stacey Harper's sister is a scientist who is trying to cure MS. Stacey has never seen herself as a family but kit broke down that wall not only did they get married but they are currently waiting for their first born to arrive. Stacey is in denial about this and throughout the book searches her scientific mind to come to terms with it. As with this series not only do we get more than one Protagonist we get alot of secondary characters. We meet up again with Lucas the cop from a million things who loves to date girls young to be his daughter, Ashton who is Kit's nephew who comes to stay with him and stacey, Dean who is a burst of personality working with Harper and of course Bunny(Harpers and Stacey mom) who is hard to like but you understand where she is coming from. A wonderful addition to the series. Review on Goodreads and Amazon.com

Mallery created a book that has characters with depth and a plot that feels fresh.. I appreciate the fact that it deals with some unpleasant realities that sometimes occur in life. It is a story that kind of creeps into your heart and you just can't put it down.

A test of love and patience between a mother, sisters, and daughters. Navigating the many stages of life and unmet expectations, and overwhelming fear of motherhood are mixed together through this story by Susan Mallery,. Many people will see parts of themselves in this fun read.

I was thrilled to get this book because I love Mallery books and liked the first book in the series. The book moved so slowly that I put it down several times. I kept trying to get into the book, but every time my mind would wonder because I simply was not invested in the story or the characters.

I really liked this book. I liked both the sisters and enjoyed their stories. I thought that Harper's story was resolved a little abruptly, but overall I enjoyed this story.

Sisters like Us is an endearing book about the lives of four related women all striving to make sense of everything that is happening in their lives.
Harper, Bunny, Stacey, and Becca: mothers, daughters, sisters and all facing life as it changes and revolves. Harper, divorced with and ex who keeps forgetting he has a daughter while he devotes himself to his younger second wife. Becca is struggling as a withdrawing teen unable to cope with a too busy mother and absent father. Bunny is the critical mother and grandmother who lives in a world where wives did everything to the minute detail, never complaining and never tiring of the work. Stacey is lovingly married to Kit and is desperately afraid of impending motherhood.
The blending of the events and interactions of these women is the driving force for change and for coming to terms with reality as it exists in the here and now.

Sisters Like Us is #4 in a series, but this book works well as a stand-alone story. Although some of the story lines are entirely relatable, I found some of the characters rather caricatured, especially the mother, Bunny. Lots of humour makes this an enjoyable, light read.

An outstanding story of family Dynamics. Kept me riveted to the point that I read it in one day and had a book hangover preventing me from starting another book. I just wanted to think this story over. I recommend it highly. It had love, disappointment, growth, angst and a vision of family that was quite authentic.

I've read, and enjoyed, many of the novels in Susan Mallery's Fools Gold series so I was interested to try a book in her Mischief Bay series. Sisters Like Us is all about the bond between sisters, as well as mothers and daughters, and was a very enjoyable read. Fast paced, easy to read (I haven't read the first three books and didn't feel that I was missing any plot or character details because of this), funny, and heartwarming; this is definitely the type of story I like to curl up with. A few of the characters grated on me a bit more then I would have liked, but this was a fun read and one I would recommend if you are looking for something on the light side.

Sisters Like Us was a delight. Susan Mallery never disappoints. The characters in this story are real, I could relate to some of the situations they found themselves in, and the progress they made learning about themselves and what they did and didn't have to do for others was satisfying. There were some laugh-out-loud moments that still make me chuckle when I think of them. This is 2 sisters, a divorcee with a teenage daughter who is trying to make her business work so she can pay the bills, and a very smart scientist who is pregnant and her husband is going to be a stay-at-home dad; and their mother who is stuck in the past believing all a woman needs to do is stay home and take care of her home and family. The relationship bombs that happen, how they navigate around and through them, learning more about each other so they can all be happy with who they are, and finding love that lasts make this a wonderful feel-good book that has a place on my permanent shelf.

Another visit to Mischief Bay from Mallery. Another dysfunctional family to meet. The highlight of this book for me was the pairing of Harper and Lucas. It was nice to see him have his HEA. Sister Stacey found hers as well. This was a solid outing for the series.

Susan Mallery has done it again!!! I am always excited to dive into her novels and Sisters Like Us was ever bit the 5 star read I hoped it would be!!! Throughout this novel we follow sisters, Harper and Stacey, as they both navigate their “new normal” with their own personal changes.

Harper, a recent divorcee, tries to be the perfect mother to her teenage daughter all the while struggling to make ends meet. Financially she’s close to broke, so her virtual assistant/crafting business NEEDS succeed. Luckily for Harper she has a steady client in Lucas, who has also become a close friend. What Harper doesn’t expect is to ever find love again...we will see how that works out for her!!!!

Stacey has worked her butt off to become a successful in her professional career. She has also found an amazing partner and husband in Kit. Her life is exactly where she wants it to be, except for the fact that she’s pregnant..... and absolutely terrified to be a mom! Stacey is petrified she’s not going to have that ”mom intuition” instantaneously or that her type “A” personality won’t know what to do with an unpredictable infant— the real kicker is that Stacey hasn’t found the “perfect” time to tell her overbearing mom that she’s pregnant...and she’s in her 3rd trimester!!!!!

I love the way Susan Mallery always makes her characters 100% relatable!! I loved reading about the complicated and delicate dynamics between mothers, daughters and sisters. I felt that this novel takes the Women’s Fiction and Romance genres and melds them together perfectly! Sisters Like Us captivated me the entire way through and I honestly didn’t want it to ever end. As always, I am looking forward to reading what Susan Mallery has up her sleeve next!!!!

This is the fourth book in the Mischief Bay series. I've enjoyed all of the stories in this series but this one is probably my favorite. Definitely a great addition to the series and I can't wait to read more. Recommended for fans of the series and other authors such as Sherryl Woods and Debbie Macomber.

Sisters Harper and Stacy have long since left the nest, but they still live in fear of disappointing their overbearing mother. Harper is recently divorced with a typical (bratty) teenage daughter, and bills she’s having a hard time covering. Stacey is a successful doctor and about to have a child of her own, with a husband who plans to be a Mr.Mom, letting Stacey earn the money. Together, the sisters work to overcome their problems, financial and emotional and try to find the courage to face down their mother. I admit I had a hard time with two grown up, independent women so frightened of pissing off their mother, but maybe that’s just because I have the most wonderful mom in the world. I did enjoy the relationship between the sisters, it was realistic.

I really enjoyed the story line and the characters. This is the fourth book in this series and I am looking forward to the next book. I did have one major problem with this book. The editing was horrible. I know this is an uncorrected proof but I have never seen so many errors in one book. Whole paragraphs that was just a jumble of words that make no sense. It really affected how the story line flowed because I had to keep stopping and trying to decipher the words and try to figure out what was being said