Book: The Shadow Sister
Author: Lucinda Riley
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/4
Completed this for the Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt #15 (A book about new beginnings- The Shadow Sister by Lucinda Riley ).
Star D’Alpièse is struggling. Filled with grief at the death of her father, she suddenly finds herself needing space from her sister CeCe, with whom she’s always been close.
When she starts looking at the clues that Pa Salt has left her about her birth, her journey takes her even further away from CeCe and the life she has known.
“The oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow,” reads the quotation her father left her (from The Prophet), is the quote that Pa Salt has left for Star.
And nothing could be more true for Star.
Her journey takes her to an old London bookstore, and to the descendants of a woman called Flora MacNichol.
As she learns more of the fiercely independent MacNichol, she also gets to know her descendants, and through them, the chance of a new life out of her sister’s shadows.
First of all, can I say how much I loved Orlando? I want a friend like him.
He added so much colour to the book for me.
The Seven Sisters books have gotten progressively better with each successive sister – the love stories more complex and subtle, while the mysteries also grow less predictable.
I liked Star’s story, mostly because I think she struggles with boundaries, much as I do.
I do find there is quite a bit of repetition between the stories – meaning we will read the same scene from the perspective of multiple sisters which I feel is unnecessary, unless there is a drastically different interpretation of what happened.
That said, it was more subtle in this third book.
I do wonder how I’ll feel about CeCe’s story as I have found her very irritating so far. Let’s see how it goes, I am willing to change my mind about her.
Now I’m on to book number four! CeCe I hope I like you better at the end of it.
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