Title: The Seven Sisters

Author: Lucinda Riley

Genres: Fiction, Romance

ISBN: 1529003458

Goodreads Rating: 4.19

Maia D’Apliese 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, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage—a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings. Eighty years earlier in Rio’s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous 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 cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

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It doesn’t happen often I hear my family talking about a book series I haven’t heard anything about yet. But with ‘The Seven Sisters’ it was my family that started talking about this series being so good they couldn’t stop reading. My grandma was reading it, my mom, my mother in law, a family friend, the neighbors and in every bookstore I visited I saw copies from ‘The Seven Sisters’. So although I wasn’t completely sure this book would be for me, I had to know what the deal was and bought myself a copy.

In ‘The Seven Sisters’ we meet Maia D’Apliese the oldest sister of six adopted sisters. Maia is called home after their adoptive father has suddenly deceased. After having a love filled, but also a little mysterious childhood not one of the sisters know anything about where they came from or why they were put up for adoption. Now her father is deceased they all get a clue to find out more about their history.

Maia has never thought much about where she came from. She has always been the one that stayed safely home. But now her father is gone, and with the clues she got about her history, she is determined to change her ways and find out who her family is.

This book sure was a little different than my contemporary romance novels I’ve been reading a lot. But there was something about the writing and the mystery of the sisters that made me keep on going. And I’m glad I did keep on going because I started to love this book more and more the further I’d go. There was romance, there was mystery and I loved it.

There is something about Lucinda Riley’s writing that really interested me. Especially the way this story altered from future time to the past. There was so much going on and so much to figure out that it really made me want to keep on reading until I finished every single page.

Yes, although very different from my ‘normal’ reads, I really enjoyed this book. And now I know what all the fuss was about,  I definitely want to read the next book too.

Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into over thirty five languages and sold twenty million copies worldwide. She is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. Lucinda is currently writing The Seven Sisters series, which tells the story of adopted sisters and is based allegorically on the mythology of the famous star constellation. The first five books, The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister, The Pearl Sister and The Moon Sister have all been No.1 bestsellers across the world, and the rights to a multi-season TV series have already been optioned by a Hollywood production company.

For more information about Lucinda please visit her website. Or visit her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Maureen Bakker

Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always!  Facebook | Instagram