Ok, for me Sugar Queen was all about the very end, the last chapter. And although lots of books goes on to the same description of the-very-end-big -surprise sense, I found this one a spinner. Even when having my suspicions about Josey Cirrini and Chloe Finley being sisters, who on earth was ready for that Della Lee being dead all the time thing?
I have to say that Sara Allen really got me here. Even with the little supernatural hints from Josey being able to feel things before it happened, I really could not count on it and for me, it was what really made me like this book so much.
The story goes around three sisters from different mothers, and an absent father, living around without knowledge of each others existence, the whole beginning being very cute, but not outstanding. The book really starts getting interesting when Della Lee, now living weeks on Josey's closet, tells her they're sister, knowing already that Chloe is one too. Is when I start thinking that Della Lee had a purpose on that strange arrangement of living in Josey's closet for weeks. And for starters, one of our principal characters, sister Josey, is a chubby insecure lady, in her late twenties, very much single and with a platonic love for the mailman. A girl who turns to food for comfort every time she gets upset, hiding a stack of candies and sweets in her closet to eat it alone, who gets happy when winter comes so she can hide her body on big sweaters to not feel self conscious. And today when everything out there is about perfection, and about being slim and gorgeous, Josey just makes it really real for me. I don't hide food in my closet if that's what you're thinking , But I do feel insecure sometimes and love large sweatpants on days that I don't feel so hot or when I pig out on a whole pint of ice cream.
But in the end, what really makes this book so gotcha!, is the fact of Della Lee being dead in the river for weeks and goes on to "visit" her sister Josey, as sort of a lunatic getting into her closet from an open window to help Josey to free herself from so many fears (like talking to Adam, the mailman, more than two words at the time), making her understand she don't need to eat her insecurities away and more importantly, to let her know she had another sister out there. And let me tell you, when the whole true comes to scene and I started realizing why Della Lee never ate, why she smelled of river water, why Helena, the maid, was always trying to get the "evil feeling" out of Josey's closet with special sands and bones, is when I truly had a chill down to my spine. And not because it's a astonishing tale (not that I have dead people coming to my closet to tell me of unknown relatives, anyway) but because the surprise of it, for being so well hidden from the reader, and making very much sense when the whole story is put together. Easy reading, cute book, good ending.
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