This is the 5th book in the incredible series The Seven Sisters. The book series is based on the story of Pa Salt, who dies early on in the first book. We know that the sisters are all adopted from remote and wonderful places of the world. At the time of Pa’s death, he
leaves each sister a letter and an extremely arbitrary clue to their past. Pa does this so that if the girls wish to learn about their biological heritage, they have the information to do so. Each book thus far, has focused on one of the sisters tracking her story back to
the beginning where she was born.
It goes without saying that this book changes through time in that the story of the sister takes place in the present, we hear of the story of the sisters great great grandparents through means of either another family member or special friend and then the story of the
grandmother and also mother are told through default or by the living relative. Quite complex writing and each book demands that the reader articulate some sort of mental family tree so that all characters are properly positioned for the telling of the story.
The books thus far all have a great love story, a painful history and some reference to a monumental time and factual relevance to a time in place. One of the many things I love in these books is the reference to real life objects and places and as readers, we get to
imagine these things before, after and waaaaay after. It is a wonderful juxtaposition between past and present and this really aids the emotion component of the book.
Tiggy’s story is told to us through the Moon sister and has been the only book thus far to be somewhat overt in approach. We are told in Pa’s letter near the beginning of the book who Tiggy should ask for, where she should go and what to look for – the other books and
clues left for the other sisters were not like this at all. I love the Seven Sisters books series, it is one of the books that has birthed my love of reading and whilst I loved reading about Tiggy’s story, compared to the others it is so far my least favourite – and I say that
lightly as I still loved the Moon Sister, I just preferred the others more!
The sisters stories are tracked back almost 100 years before so there is a lot of ground to cover in each book with every moment leading up to how the sister came to be adopted by Pa Salt. Each book has love, power, fight, amazement, enchantment and real people.
Definitely should be at the top of your reading list.
I will always give Lucinda Riley ***** five stars for her Seven Sisters books.