As I expected, I really enjoyed To My Sisters.
The book's content aligned with many of the messages in the podcast and Courtney and Renee's voices were clear.
I think it's a useful read for young women and even teens and older audiences who want to maximise the friendships they have.
I would have liked to see some more real-life case studies/experiences and think the editing could have possibly been done better as I read parts that I winced at as I knew some audiences may have misinterpreted what the authors were trying to discuss.
Overall, it was a good read. Thank you for the opportunity to read.
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I was excited to read this book, but unfortunately, it fell short of my expectations.

Although it presents itself as a guide for building strong adult female friendships, the book's main focus is on enhancing and maximising the friendships we already have, not cultivating new ones from scratch.

To My Sisters touches upon various important topics, such as recognizing the types of friends we are, overcoming our own toxicities, being vulnerable, nurturing friendships across different life stages, and even venturing into business or making financial goals with friends. However, considering the authors' vast community of over 100K women worldwide, I think there was a missed opportunity to incorporate real-life stories and practical advice from this diverse group. In my opinion, To My Sisters has the potential to be a comprehensive and enlightening book series.

While I appreciate the authors' openness, and although they made some excellent statements, such as, "Our insecurities are real, our pain is valid, our anger is justified, but our response cannot be to make other people collateral damage to our trauma," overall, this book left me feeling significantly underwhelmed. I had hoped for a more actionable and impactful reading experience.

I can't shake the feeling that this book was published too early, considering the limits of the authors' age and experience. Even though the purpose of the book is admirable - encouraging sisterhood and healthy relationships between women, deriving mostly from lived experiences may work in favour of spreading misinformation, i.e. about "porn addiction".

On one hand I understand that porn watching patterns were problematic to one of the authors and might have felt like an addiction, using inaccurate terminology without scientific backing. and framing it as potentially universal experience, is simply unethical. What in my opinion failed Boateng and Kapuku was the editing of the book, that didn't provide enough critical guidance.

This was definitely a polar opposite to what I usually read but, surprisingly, I liked it! This book had many conversations on friendship, platonic relationships and soulmates (in a platonic sense as well). I haven’t listened to the podcast but I may try listening to it soon because I really enjoyed what the authors had to say. It explored so many different topics such has black female friendship, food family, growth, communication, etc and the authors really opened to the reading through those pages to talk about their experiences, feelings, fear and such. The writing style was SO beautiful as well! I absolutely adored this book and would totally recommend it! 4.25 stars.