I Love You More
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4.5 • 15 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In this thoughtful, intimate novel centered around a San Francisco family restaurant, two estranged sisters get a chance to rediscover their bond in the face of personal upheaval—if they can let go of the past and embrace new beginnings . . .
To an outsider, television morning anchor Tess Stone’s life looks like glossy perfection. Ambitious, beautiful, and married to a major league baseball player, Tess seems invincible—until an on-air catastrophe puts both her marriage and career in jeopardy. Retreating home to San Francisco from New York to take stock seems like the best move. But that involves a challenge of its own: confronting her sister, Avery.
Unlike Tess, Avery has pushed her own dreams aside in favor of running the family restaurant, Stones, dutifully adhering to her father’s unchanging menu of stick-to-your-ribs traditional fare. She has mixed feelings about her sister’s return. After all, Avery’s fiancé, Bennett, loved Tess first, and it’s impossible to shake her jealousy and dread—especially as Tess begins stealing attention left and right once more.
But while both sisters have been immersed in their own lives, their parents have been keeping secrets of their own. And the curveballs keep coming—throwing into question all their relationships, the restaurant’s future, and their long-held assumptions about love, family, and especially, each other . . .
Customer Reviews
Sister’s journey back to friendship
Tess and Avery Stone are sister who grew up working in the family restaurant, Stones, in downtown San Francisco. Tess is the charming beauty who started modeling at 12 and is now an up and coming journalist in New York. Avery works as a pastry chef at the family restaurant, and is stifled by her father’s old school way of running the restaurant. The sister’s were once best friends, but their relationship is currently strained. The story begins when Tess finds out that her professional baseball player husband has cheated on her right before she goes on air. She ends up melting down, gets fired and ends up laying low back in San Francisco with her family. Being back in SF brings to the forefront the strain on the sister’s relationship. Avery was a star at the Culinary Institute of America, but her inability to shine due to her father’s controlling nature frustrates her. Add to that her constant insecurity over the fact that her fiancé, Bennet, was in love with her sister first. The author does a great job taking you through the journey that both sister have to take to get back to their friendship. There were times I wasn’t a fan of either sister (Tess’s narcissism, Avery’s Whiney insecurities), but the story was so good, I had a hard time putting this book down. Stacy Finn is definitely one of my go-to authors. I received an arc of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.