Name: Kathy Allatt's review of The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley
Item: The Seven Sisters
Rating: 4
Author: Kathy Allatt

Lucinda Riley

Gathering at their Lake Geneva estate when their adoptive father passes away, six sisters receive tantalizing clues about their true heritage, prompting Maia to journey to Rio de Janeiro to learn the story of her parents' forbidden love. By the best-selling author of The Orchid House.

Book One

The Seven Sisters

Kathy Allatt

Julie Twist

I can't wait to read #2 - great family saga set in both present day and in the past.

A good book, a nice storyline and im looking forward to reading the next one. 

Jodie Reads

Some really lovely parts to this story, bits I found frustrating/annoying but otherwise very enjoyable and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series 

Lucy Mills-Taylor

Jantien 

Frida

So good!!!! I read about the last threehundred pages in one sitting and i was unable to put it away!!!

The first book in a stunning series from the number one international bestseller"Atmospheric, heart-rending and multi-layered" GraziaTheir future is written in the stars . . . Maia D'Apliése and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis' - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of where her story began . . . Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Epoque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio's father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is working on a statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela - passionate and longing to see the world - convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski's studio and in the heady, vibrant cafés of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.In this sweeping epic tale of love and loss - the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven books, based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star constellation - Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before.MORE PRAISE FOR LUCINDA RILEY"Irish-born Riley is quietly becoming a huge success story" Red"[Lucinda Riley] manipulates the strands of her plot with skill" Independent on Sunday"A captivating read . . . Ideal for a book club" DailyMail.co.uk/Femail

Agnes Johansson

I hated how everybody acted like only changed thanks to a guy and he kind of made her worthy of love, like she didn’t go through a whole journey herself??? and these books are supposed to be about female empowerment???

Sarah Ryan

I love long books. I love family sagas. This was always going to be a winner for me. Will be reading them all!

Anna Campbell

** spoiler alert **
           The first 50 pages didn’t catch my attention, and I was sad because this series was recommended by my grandmother. But as soon as Maia flew to Brazil, I was hooked! I loved the historical story playing out alongside the current day, and the parallels between them. Surprisingly, I found Izabela, her husband and Laurent to all be likeable characters. 
Can’t wait to read the rest of the series! I don’t believe Pa Salt is dead… yet.

Nadine 

Pam Sartain

The Seven Sisters introduces use to Maia and her five other sisters and their billionaire adopted father, Pa Salt.

They were named after the Seven Sisters stars, and they (like us) expected there to be a seventh sister, but I think that is one of the mysteries in this book, along with who Pa Salt was to jet around the world and adopt all of these girls, and then take them to his home in Switzerland, to his house called Atlantis.

The Seven Sisters is the start of what I think of as family saga. We're going to be looking in depth at each of the sisters, with a book per sister. This first book belongs to Maia, the eldest, where we join her just as she learns of Pa Salt's death, who leaves her, and the other sisters, clues to their biological family, and how learning about her great grandmother helps Maia understand herself.

I haven't read any of the other books yet, and I would like to, and whilst I am a bit worried that these will be formulaic, at the same time, I really enjoyed this story, so I will read the next one (The Storm Sister), and see how that is! 

The reason I read The Seven Sisters is because the fifth book in the series, The Moon Sister, is being published on 1st November, and I was interested enough in how that looked to want to read from the beginning (that's how I roll! Book series, podcasts, tv shows, all are consumed from the beginning!).

If you'd like to be whisked away to exotic locations, then I think this book series is going to be for you, as each of the sisters are very different, and live in different parts of the world!

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley is available now in all good book shops and libraries.

The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley is due to be published on 1st November 2018. 

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and Pan Macmillan (the publishers) for this book.

Paulina R.

It has been a long time since I read a book in this gerne, but I really enjoyed and look forward to continuing this series 😊.

mirta <3

Judy Hudgins

Good read which tells the story of the first of six sisters, with the 7th being unknown.

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