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The Missing Sister
Jul. 6th, 2021 06:28 amI've generally enjoyed Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series, and was very keen to read the latest instalment, as it promised to answer a lot of the questions raised in the earlier books. I also thought it was going to be the last in the series and was interested to find out how the over-arching framing narrative would be concluded.
There was some clunkiness to the book. I appreciated the references back to events from previous books in the series, but it did mean that the characters spent quite a lot of time telling each other things they already knew, so the dialogue was often stilted and unnatural. They also endlessly repeated to each other the events of the current story - I understand there were a lot of characters to keep up to date on things, but those explanations really didn't need to be on the page.
However, that said, I did still enjoy spending time with these characters, and the new ones were great too. Both main storylines were engaging and interesting, and the new developments to the framing narrative were intriguing.
And then nothing was really explained - and lots more questions were raised - because it's *not* the last book the series, after all! The next one promises to cover a lot of potentially fascinating ground, and I will definitely read it. But it seems I'm going to have to wait a long time for answers!
There was some clunkiness to the book. I appreciated the references back to events from previous books in the series, but it did mean that the characters spent quite a lot of time telling each other things they already knew, so the dialogue was often stilted and unnatural. They also endlessly repeated to each other the events of the current story - I understand there were a lot of characters to keep up to date on things, but those explanations really didn't need to be on the page.
However, that said, I did still enjoy spending time with these characters, and the new ones were great too. Both main storylines were engaging and interesting, and the new developments to the framing narrative were intriguing.
And then nothing was really explained - and lots more questions were raised - because it's *not* the last book the series, after all! The next one promises to cover a lot of potentially fascinating ground, and I will definitely read it. But it seems I'm going to have to wait a long time for answers!
