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Pa Salt and Patriots
Jul. 14th, 2023 02:47 pmI was very excited to learn that the final instalment of The Seven Sisters series by Lucina Riley was finally available so I ordered it from the library and read it this week.
It's a bittersweet conclusion to the series, since Riley died a couple of years ago and her son, Harry Whittaker, completed the book on her behalf.
But he did a really good job!
It has a few issues - the main one being a very common problem with this type of book - that's it's presented as partly the diary of one of the characters, but nobody writes direct action scenes in their diary, so it's not a credible representation of that kind of document. But setting that aside, it covers all the bases in terms of tracking through Pa Salt's life and how he eventually ended up adopting the six sisters whose stories I've enjoyed over the last decade.
There are sections that feel rather more telling than showing, or too much summary - but then there's a lot to get through and it's already 765 pages!
The ultimate conclusion was very satisfying and I'm really glad I got the chance to read this last instalment.
A really great series, overall, and a very suitable ending to it.
Last night, we went to see Patriots at the theatre. I was a late addition to the party, taking a ticket from someone else who was no longer able to attend, so I went in with absolutely no knowledge of what the play was going to be about! And it was really good, despite being on a subject I wouldn't normally have much interest in.
Tom Hollander is excellent as Boris Berezovsky, a Russian billionaire businessman who apparently had a great deal of influence over Russian politics and the rise of Vladimir Putin to power in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The play was very well staged, the cast was great, and it was very chilling as a tale of unforeseen consequences of actions that have shaped the world as we know it.
It's a bittersweet conclusion to the series, since Riley died a couple of years ago and her son, Harry Whittaker, completed the book on her behalf.
But he did a really good job!
It has a few issues - the main one being a very common problem with this type of book - that's it's presented as partly the diary of one of the characters, but nobody writes direct action scenes in their diary, so it's not a credible representation of that kind of document. But setting that aside, it covers all the bases in terms of tracking through Pa Salt's life and how he eventually ended up adopting the six sisters whose stories I've enjoyed over the last decade.
There are sections that feel rather more telling than showing, or too much summary - but then there's a lot to get through and it's already 765 pages!
The ultimate conclusion was very satisfying and I'm really glad I got the chance to read this last instalment.
A really great series, overall, and a very suitable ending to it.
Last night, we went to see Patriots at the theatre. I was a late addition to the party, taking a ticket from someone else who was no longer able to attend, so I went in with absolutely no knowledge of what the play was going to be about! And it was really good, despite being on a subject I wouldn't normally have much interest in.
Tom Hollander is excellent as Boris Berezovsky, a Russian billionaire businessman who apparently had a great deal of influence over Russian politics and the rise of Vladimir Putin to power in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The play was very well staged, the cast was great, and it was very chilling as a tale of unforeseen consequences of actions that have shaped the world as we know it.
