Tag: The Seven Sisters

The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley

by Bookworm&TheatreMouse

The second of ‘The Seven Sisters’ brings us the story of ‘The Storm Sister’ – the second sister, Ally.

I was gripped by this book from the first page, just as I had been when I picked up ‘The Seven Sisters‘. Ally is an adventurer; she is a yachtswoman and is about to embark on her latest adventure when she hears of the death of Pa Salt. As her life changes the path she thought it was following, she decides that, like her sister, she will follow the clues that have been left by Pa Salt to see if she can find out a little more about her roots. This adventure takes the reader to Europe – Norway to be precise – as she discovers that her other musical talent may have come from her ancestors as she unravels their story.

The way that Lucinda Riley weaves the sense of mystery and discovery into these stories makes them real page-turners. The dual timelines leave you wanting to find out more all the time, as the reader wants to know the answers to the mysterious past, and how the clues and discoveries may impact the future for Ally.

By the end of the book, I was fully rooting for Ally to have a happy ending; I felt after all the adventure of the book she deserved that. And I felt like I had been on another wonderful adventure (just adding Norway to places I would definitely like to visit). It always makes me want to find out more about my family history, because I think it is so fascinating to find out where we have come from and how that may impact who we are today – even if we may not realise it.

I am very much ready to find out more about the Seven Sisters, and I think it is safe to say that ‘The Shadow Sister’ will be on my summer reading list, as I am keen to find out about Star and her family past.

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

by Bookworm&TheatreMouse

I have seen the ‘Seven Sisters’ books all over Bookstagram and the book community, but I was a little put off. One reason, the hype: would starting these books be as wonderful as everyone was telling me it would be? And secondly, they are bricks and sometimes page numbers put me off (after all, Wolf Hall has been on the tbr pile for as long as I can remember).

Thanks to another fantastic buddy read on the little corner of Instagram that we affectionately know as Bookstagram, I picked up book one in the ‘Seven Sisters’ series, also called ‘The Seven Sisters’. And, I have to admit that I am very late to this party, but I am glad that I have finally shown up to it.

I was absolutely hooked on this book once I started; I just needed to know more about these six women and their adoptive father, Pa Salt. Lucinda Riley has created characters with such a rich history that they get under your skin, as does the mystery that she surrounds these six women with as they start to find out their personal history, before they were chosen by Pa Salt and made into a new family.

We start with Maia, the eldest of the sisters and possibly the most reserved, and a bit of a home bird. However, after Pa Salt’s death, she is left a clue (as are her sisters), which will help her possibly unlock the secrets of her past. The reader is whisked off from Geneva to Rio de Janeiro as we follow Maia on her adventures to find out more about her identity and her past. And, through correspondences from her Great-Grandmother Bel and clues in the present day, Maia begins to unravel the mystery of her past.

Lucinda Riley has really created such a page-turner and I just could not put the book down as more and more was revealed about Maia and her family. Also, as a history lover, as the events of the past are set around the events that led to the building of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, it sent me down a rabbit hole of researching more about that story, too, and the people involved.

So, as the book ended on a saga-like cliffhanger, I know I am destined to read the rest of the books, and hope they are just as engaging and fascinating as the first.