Date:                         3/6/141

Title:                          We Ain’t The Brontes

Author:                     Rosalyn McMillan

ISBN 10:                   1-60162-243-0

ISBN 13:                   978-1-60162-243-3

Pages:                       296

Publisher:                Urban Books

Cover:                       Paperback

Reviewer:                Yolanda M. Johnson-Bryant– Literary Wonders!  

Rating:                      3.5 Stars

We Ain’t the Brontes is the long awaited, come out of retirement, novel by bestselling author Rosalyn McMillan. Charity is a struggling writer who is about to lose everything if she doesn’t get another publishing contract—including her family. Her husband resents her for their mounting debt and need to live like the ‘Joneses’.

Lynzee, a bestselling author, is Charity’s older sister and she has a vendetta against Charity. Lynzee does everything she can to sabotage her sister’s career, including blacklisting her in the publishing industry. 

Things are about to go from bad to worse when Charity finds out that her sister Lynzee had a child over thirty years ago, and feels her world falling apart when she finds out who the father is.

In We Ain’t the Brontes, I was very angry with these characters. Lynzee is a ruthless diva and Charity is passive-aggressive and a gluten for punishment.  I want to take a hit out on Lynzee and slap some sense into Charity at the beginning.

Although the story line and the characters were great, I feel that the story could have been written better as it is not typical of Rosayln’s bestselling work. After reading her sister’s latest novel, I found We Ain’t the Brontes to be a mere extension of her sister’s angry and conniving characters and/or voice. I’m sure I’m not the first person, who has read the book, to wonder if there’s a little bit of truth to this story.

This is not Rosalyn’s usual great writing, but I sense that if she is back in writing mode, she will begin to pump out those stories that we all remember her for, nearly ten years ago.