Maia, the eldest sister searches for her biological family retracing steps back several generations with the reader following a “Genealogy Roadshow”.

Therefore, it was not hard to be taken in. This included defined characters and a vivid backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Despite not knowing anything about astrology and certainly not the seven sisters, Riley drew me in with a lush story. The Seven Sisters is the first book I have read by Lucinda Riley and this introduction entered with a bang. In this sweeping, epic tale of love and loss-the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven novels-Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before. 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. 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. 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. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings.Įighty years earlier in Rio’s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. 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. 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. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tour in exchange for an honest review.

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