Für mich leider der bisher schwächste Teil der Reihe, aber trotz allem ein wirklich gutes Buch. Die Reihe ist einfach nur sehr stark, sodass mir diese 4-Sterne-Bewertung schlecht erscheint. Umso mehr hat mir die Vergangenheit gefallen und ich habe im Nachgang noch zum „Happy Valley“ und den Protagonist*innen gegoogled, welche Lucinda Riley als Vorlage dienten >> Sehr spannend! The one thing that impressed me so much about this book is for it to be very vivid. I felt like I was really with those characters living in those moments and all my emotions moved with them. That's why I loved it so much. Romances were not the center of these stories at all, which was another happy aspect. It was so rich with other historical details and the wholistic story, we didn't need a love story to do the heavy lifting. To the outside world, Electra D'Apliese seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. The book is full of important content like racism, drug addiction, religion and how it affects people's lives, fame, etc. There's quite a bit of trigger warning about drug usage and suicide. So, if that's a trigger warning for you, I'd like to mention it.

Sweeping from Manhattan to the magnificent wide-open plains of Africa, The Sun Sister is the sixth instalment in Lucinda Riley's multi-million selling epic series, The Seven Sisters. I loved both Electra and Cecily's development throughout the stories. They were both remarkable characters. I read that Riley took real events and people as a base of this book, and it makes it even more special. My cell phone piped up from somewhere in the apartment, playing the song that had made Mitch a worldwide superstar; I’d tried to change the ringtone, but it hadn’t worked. If CeCe is dyslexic with words, then I sure am dyslexic with electronics, I thought as I went into the bedroom to grab it. I was relieved to see that the maid had changed the sheets on the enormous bed and everything was hotel-room perfect again. I liked the new maid my PA had found me; she’d signed a nondisclosure agreement like all the others to stop her blabbing to the media about any of my nastier habits. Even so, I shuddered to think what she—was it Lisbet?—had thought when she’d walked into my apartment this morning. SHIT?!?” I screamed as I pressed “delete” and threw the cell across the room. “What the hell did I do to her?” I asked the ceiling, wondering why I felt so upset that a two-bit nobody, who had gone down on bended knee and begged me to give her a chance, had walked out on me three months later.I really enjoyed this book and honestly did not want to put it down. It's unusual for a story to bring me to tears but this one did. I particularly enjoyed Cecily's story and the descriptions of Africa and the 1930's lifestyle. Electra the youngest sister of the d'Aplises family is a successful model, rich and famous with a hedonistic lifestyle. Her hectic days are full of alcohol and drugs and after the death of her adopted father she loses control. Electra's story is fascinating and I didn't want to put the book down. From the earlier books I wasn't very fond of Electra - she always seemed like the spoiled, detached sister, but I liked her much better in her own story as I gained an understanding of her circumstances. It is amber,” he said as he watched me studying the way it caught the light of the chandelier above us. “Try it on.”

What different kinds of research did you do on Kenya’s colonial era and how did you consolidate what you found into the story? I remembered how astonished I’d been that he hadn’t been angrier at yet another of my failures. Just kind of disappointed, I suppose, which had taken the wind out of my sails. Thus begins Electra's journey to her roots. Her grandmother begins a tale of a woman named Cecily who went from her home in New York to visit her godmother in Kenya, Africa just before World War II began. The prose is sincere and descriptive. The characters are multilayered, vulnerable, and lonely. And the absorbing, heartfelt plot is an incredibly moving tale of fame, fortune, substance abuse, familial drama, self-discovery, love, loss, grief, friendship, racial segregation, courage, hope, as well as a little insight into life in Kenya during its colonialism by Great Britain.

Bonsoir, ma belle Electra,” he said in his strange clipped French as he unloaded the flowers and champagne and kissed me on both cheeks. “ Comment tu vas??”

And when Electra mentions her great vocabulary but talks like, sooooo, like this all through the book. It absolutely PAINS me to give this book such a low rating. It hurts my heart because this book series has been some of my most enjoyable reading experiences. I have just adored the previous five books detailing where on the map each sister came from. This one, not so much. Did you know from the beginning of the series that Electra’s story would be partly based in Kenya? How did you approach your research there? I recommend this series to readers who like historical fiction about strong women characters. I am excited to read the subsequent books and hope to find out about the missing Merope as well as to understand the mystery of Pa Salt. A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.So what if you had told Mrs. Dormouse the truth, Electra? So what if you’d admitted that last night you were so off your face with liquor and coke that you could have slept with Santa and you wouldn’t have known about it? That the reason you couldn’t even begin to think about your father wasn’t because of his death but because you knew how ashamed he’d be of you … how ashamed he’d been of you? In the shadow of the magnificent Alhambra, Tiggy discovers her connection to the fabled gypsy community of Sacromonte, who were forced to flee their homes during the civil war, and to ‘La Candela’ – the greatest flamenco dancer of her generation. Her grandmother tells her a story of Cecily who traveled to Africa just before the Second World War and the consequences of this has changed all their lives. To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. At least when Pa Salt had been alive, I’d known he couldn’t see what I was doing, but now he was dead, he’d somehow become omnipresent; he could have been in the bedroom with me last night or even here in the limo right now …

PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Sun_Sister_The_Seven_Sisters_-_Lucinda_Riley.pdf, The_Sun_Sister_The_Seven_Sisters_-_Lucinda_Riley.epub But when fate takes a hand, Tiggy must decide whether to stay with her new-found family or return to Kinnaird, and Charlie . . . I will finish this series but then I am, like, so , totally ( the author’s favourite words) with this writer. She spins a good tale and that’s about it. All the characters are shallow and stupid... I can’t deal with it. I thought the same thing about every single sister- each one just gets more stupid. It’s such a shame really as if more thought was put into the characters instead of the plot then this could for sure be like, so , totally 5 stars. Tiggy D’Aplièse, in her mid-twenties, learns that her father – Pa Salt, an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe – has died. Trusting her instincts, Tiggy moves to the remote wilds of Scotland and takes a job doing what she loves: caring for animals. Working on the vast and isolated Kinnaird estate, she is employed by the enigmatic and troubled laird, Charlie Kinnaird.

Summary

All the d'Apliese sisters have been adopted and Electra has now received a letter from a woman claiming to be her material grandmother. It’s been busy,” I said as I took a large gulp of my champagne. “I was on a shoot in Fiji last week, and I’m flying to Paris next week.” The concierge phone beeped again, and Zed stood up to answer it. “Send it up immediately, thank you.” He poured us both some more champagne. “We are having Chinese, and I promise you, it will be the best chow mein you have ever tasted.” He smiled. “So how are your sisters?” I do love this series. The only downside to finishing this is that now I'm all caught up and will have to wait for the next book! Yes, it’s not great. She was shaping up well.” Susie’s British accent sounded crisp and businesslike.