Ya-Yas in Bloom: A Novel (The Ya-Ya Series Book 3)

Great story telling. I was worried it was just going to scrape up the scraps of the other two books which I read ages ago. But was pleased to be taken on a new and yet familiar journey with the Ya Ya’s soul and devoted friendship.

The story was good but the personalities of the Ya Ya’s seemed to disappear in the second half. The book took on a somber tone with the kidnapping scenario and dragged on too long. It was more about Baylor than anything in the latter part of the book

I thoroughly enjoyed this book; however it wasn't as good as the first two Ya- Ya books that I've read. I felt that the story wasn't as clear as the first two books. Perhaps, this is one of these stories that you have to read more than once to understand it.

So much happened to these wonderful people. Their growth & changes are fantastic. This is a book to read & read again. Thank you

This was a good book to listen to, but at times a bit difficult to follow. It seems to demonstrate how difficult it can be to grow up/mature when you’ve been in the same small town/socio economic role your whole life.

If you would like a journey through the lives of the Ya-Yas and there petites this is just one the of the great books to read. I have enjoyed the series of the Ya Yas. When you watch the movie you only get bits and pieces of the true story. I would recommend this book to everyone. I would love to see another book about these wonderful gals and there families.

I didn't realize Rebecca Wells had more books than the "Yaya Sisterhood" and "Little Altars." Boy was I excited when a friend told me about this one. Easy, relaxing read. I had listened to "Yaya Sisterhood" on tape years ago, so now when I read Wells' books, I hear her telling the story. She's an amazing narrator as well as a fun to read author. You'll enjoy this one.

I was riveted by this latest installment in the saga of the "Ya-yas." These characters are strong, funny, flawed and REAL. I was particularly impressed by the reader, Judith Ivey, whose skill as an actor and mastery of dialect made each character come to life in a special and unique way. As a teenager I was abosultly POTTY about the Beatles, so Sidalee's Houston adventure really resonated! A great read, certainly, but if you want to be enlightend AND entertained, please get the book on tape...you won't regret it!

A very light read. Would not have purchased this book except it was chosen by my book club. I think it would appeal to people with large families, especially if they were from the southern US

Parfait ! Bonne qualité. Expédié rapidement. :)

Did you hear about the time the Ya-Yas got to see the Beatles play live, and it was awesome? Or the time one of the Petites Ya-Yas was on television, and it was awesome? Or the time the Ya-Yas had to redefine religion, and it was awesome? Or the time Vivi took a teachable moment with her son, and it was awesome? Did you hear about how some people didn't like the Ya-Yas, but that was because they were fat and tacky and jealous and anyway they were racists and crazy and didn't like how the Ya-Yas were so awesome?Personally I could do without hearing about it.This isn't a novel; it's a collection of short stories about characters we're interested in because we've previously read about them in another novel. That isn't a problem in itself, but it does become a problem when it keeps trying to deliver the same novel-length moral in a smaller space: the end of every story is pretty much 'And the Ya-Yas are awesome.' In 'Divine Secrets', the charm was balanced against violence and dysfunction and so it *meant* something: it was a way of telling a story in which a family holds together because however bad the bad times were, it doesn't cancel out the good times. But we don't see much in the way of bad times here, so all we get is repeated reminders of how tres Ya-Ya everything is. And that starts to grate. A collection of short stories, fine. A collection of victory laps, non merci.Honestly, by the time the book veered off into the story of the Spevey women and how they'd always hated the Ya-Yas - at which point Wells's character writing crossed the line from 'self-celebrating' into 'spiteful'; her portraits of the Speveys really left a bad taste in my mouth - I was starting to see their point. The gloriousness of the Ya-Yas had been pushed down my throat so far that I was getting pretty fed up with them too.'Divine Secrets' was always treading a fine line between 'It's worth it because the Ya-Yas are human beings with frailties but love is always worth something' and 'It's worth it because the Ya-Yas are just cooler than everybody else.' This book … has gone over that line. Pretty far over that line. And on the other side of that line is not the joy of a child of nature, but the vainglory of a bully.If you read the series because you've completely identified yourself with the Ya-Yas and want to go along for the ride, you'll probably enjoy it, but not in a way that'll actually encourage the kind of tolerance and forgiveness the first book supposedly endorsed. The early stories about the Ya-Ya childhoods are all right, but don't really add much, and after that it gets increasingly ugly, in a way that made me like the first book less. If you want to keep liking 'Divine Secrets', I'd avoid this.

This is a cute little read and I loved hearing about the girls in action again. But it is a shadow of the first instalment "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and in that respect it is disappointing. This book takes up with the four friends as wives, mothers and grandmothers. I still adore Vivi with all her flaws, for me the ringleader of the quartet and the book centres on her life. The other 3, Caro, Necie and Teensy, dip in and out but we never learn that much about them, which is a shame. It's an easy, warm read but lacks the vitality, candour and charm of the first book.

This was unnecessary and does not zip along like the sequel - er - the one that it prequels and is the successful movie. The problem is that the charm of adult women who recall their youth and loyalties in a modern plot where one does care about what happens is not in this book - they are just pretentious kids growing up like we all did: surviving. Sometimes more is less, and more or less, this is less.