I don't know if that makes this a must read.
I don't know if that makes it a good book, or Bernice McFadden is a bad or good writer.
LORD! I felt like I needed to come up for air after reading the first ten chapters. This series starts with a violent act in book one and ends with one at the end of book two. Needless to say there is a heavy darkness that hangs over the whole book. It honestly felt like someone died every single chapter for the first ten chapters. But the one thing I have to say that is not positive about this book would be the amount of violence done to the characters. Without giving anything away, Sugar and most of the characters from book 1 are developed a bit more and have interesting back stories that Bernice McFadden wrote completely whole. I love that Sugar is a strong woman and regardless of her past has the fortitude to take care of someone else. Sugar has been through some over the top violence and pain both physical and emotion. Book two starts with Sugar making her way back to her childhood home of Short Junction and the women who helped raise her. Book one ends with Sugar leaving the town and the towns people to gossip and pick up the pieces of the devastation, hurt, and accusations she left behind. The men like that about her and the women can't stop talking about her and her "ways". Now Sugar is not liked by the other women in town. (Review) The first book centered around Sugar Lacey and her unexpected arrival in the small sleepy town of Bigelow, Arkansas. I read and reviewed the first book "Sugar" for Mocha Girls Read book club last year. Agent, James Vines.I purchased this audiobook from to complete the Sugar Lacey series. Unfortunately, the rest of the novel is too full of Sugar's victimization: suffering the pain of her past, she lacks much of the fiery fighting spirit that made her appealing and sympathetic in the first novel. This ordeal and a subsequent bus trip to Bigelow featuring a harrowing episode of racial intimidation are the best scenes in the novel as McFadden captures the horrors of drug addiction and the zeitgeist of a racist South. Appalled to discover that Mary's home has become a heroin den and her granddaughter a junkie, Sugar bravely and selflessly tries to save the young girl. When all three sisters die, Sugar receives her inheritance, and would live comfortably if not for the ghosts of the past that won't leave her in peace. The Lacey sisters, who raised Sugar from birth and employed her in their house of ill repute, welcome her back and answer her questions about her parents. In the winter of 1955, Sugar Lacey leaves her man, the evil Lappy Clayton, in Bigelow, Ark., to return to Short Junction only 10 miles, but a world away.
In a heartfelt but lackluster sequel to her critically acclaimed debut, Sugar, McFadden follows Sugar as she attempts to heal her physical and emotional wounds.
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