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The Missing Sister by Lucinda RileyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister?
They only have one clue – an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe; from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland, uniting them all in their mission to at last complete their family.
In doing so, they will slowly unearth a story of love, strength and sacrifice that began almost one hundred years ago, as other brave young women risk everything to change the world around them.
The Missing Sister is the seventh instalment in Lucinda Riley’s multimillion copy epic series.
This was supposedly the last in the Seven Sisters series. I didn't feel it was up to the standard of the previous books but knowing that the author had since lost her battle to cancer it's perhaps understandable that this book feels a bit rushed in places.
The first books in the series each centre around one of the D’Aplièse sisters as, following the death of their adopted father, they search for the story behind their adoptions and their family history. This final story follows all the sisters as they try and track down their "missing" sister.
Once again the book contains historical segments, this time on the troubles in Ireland and how the battle for setting up the Irish Republic took place. This was interesting as it wasn't something I knew much about in depth.
However, the present day elements of the book were less satisfying. The way the story moves from place to place in rapid succession is less than credible at times. As I said above it felt like it was rushed.
This book also left many questions unanswered and there was to have been a final book based on the adoptive Father, Pa Salt, that would tie up all the loose ends. We're told that this will happen as Lucinda has provided her son, who is also a writer, with enough information for him to be able to write the book. It will be good to have the proper closure of this saga and hopefully with good editing it will still have the same feel as the earlier books.
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The first books in the series each centre around one of the D’Aplièse sisters as, following the death of their adopted father, they search for the story behind their adoptions and their family history. This final story follows all the sisters as they try and track down their "missing" sister.
Once again the book contains historical segments, this time on the troubles in Ireland and how the battle for setting up the Irish Republic took place. This was interesting as it wasn't something I knew much about in depth.
However, the present day elements of the book were less satisfying. The way the story moves from place to place in rapid succession is less than credible at times. As I said above it felt like it was rushed.
This book also left many questions unanswered and there was to have been a final book based on the adoptive Father, Pa Salt, that would tie up all the loose ends. We're told that this will happen as Lucinda has provided her son, who is also a writer, with enough information for him to be able to write the book. It will be good to have the proper closure of this saga and hopefully with good editing it will still have the same feel as the earlier books.
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