Book Review - The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley

The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous.

Yet beneath the veneer, Electra’s already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother . . .

In 1939, Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya from New York to nurse a broken heart. Staying with her godmother, a member of the infamous Happy Valley set, on the shores of beautiful Lake Naivasha, she meets Bill Forsythe, a notorious bachelor and cattle farmer with close connections to the proud Maasai tribe. But after a shocking discovery and with war looming, Cecily has few options. Moving up into the Wanjohi Valley, she is isolated and alone. Until she meets a young woman in the woods and makes her a promise that will change the course of her life for ever.

Thoroughly enjoying this series. This is a phenomenal family saga involving 6 sisters (and a missing 7th) who have all been adopted and, after the death of their adopted Father, search for information about their beginnings and their birth parents. The sisters come from all over the world and each story is a well researched saga combining past and present, real and fictional events, love and loss.

Electra is the Sun Sister and this is #6 in the series. There is no repetition at the beginning of this book about the events leading up to what each sister was doing at the time of their Father's death something which did annoy me a little bit in books 2 and 3. Once again though the timings of events across this book tie in with events occurring in previous stories.

Electra's story takes us from America to Kenya and back to America and covers not only the stories of her Mother and Grandmother but also her own personal battles against addition to alcohol and drugs.

The books are long but the stories are engaging and the pages keep turning. I already have the next in the series ready to read at some point.

Sadly the author died in 2021 from cancer but the final book in the series will be completed by her son based on important passages written by Lucinda before she died and detailed notes on the story. I will look forward to reading that one too.

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