Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley’s spellbinding series of love and loss, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster. This is a series well worth your time and attention if you are looking for something totally different from the norm, with a wealth of characters to get to know, and a plethora of places to discover as their stories are told, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

The next book is about CeCe who is portrayed as mostly selfish and scatter-brained in this one, but I trust that hearing her POV will render her more sympathetic.In particular the characters of Flora MacNichol and Beatrix Potter, and the friendship between the two. Perhaps because it was set in England and that's my particular favorite or maybe I saw something in myself in Star that made her my favorite sister (so far). Lucinda Rileys Schreibstil ist einfach toll, so dass ich überhaupt kein Problem habe zu diesem dicken Wälzern zu greifen!

I was completely engrossed in this novel from the very beginning and never once did I want to put it down. I have vivid memories of my father taking me up there when I was seven or eight, and hanging on to the side of the mountain when we were caught in a squall, just as Flora and Archie are.She is happy and secure in her home in England’s picturesque Lake District—just a stone’s throw away from the residence of her childhood idol, Beatrix Potter—when machinations lead her to London, and the home of one of Edwardian society’s most notorious society hostesses, Alice Keppel. I spent hundreds of pages inside her head and feel like I still don't know a thing about her, except that I find her selfish and boring.

Lucinda Riley was born in Northern Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four.

Designed as a series of ‘rooms’, each one tells a different story, and I thought it was the perfect model for High Weald. Great Britain has such a rich history, and has one of the longest reigning monarchies in modern history. I enjoyed my time with Star and the other characters and this provided a nice change of place after my last couple of reads.

I love that the author takes any given story and draws the reader back in time, and then mixes historical fact with pure escapist fiction. The relationship between Star and Ceecee is bewildering to me, I like my individuality and alone time, Ceecee is codependent on Star, and Star is too gentle, silent and weak beside Ceecee's outspoken personality, though I suspect that the stronger internally is Star. Her silent character fascinated me, and I wanted the learn more about her and her back story as soon as possible. I think the Keppel family line is the line that produces the kings and princes of England mistresses, what a weird family, the woman in this line are experts in catching the eyes (and the hearts) of royalty! The author has such skill to be able to weave everything together so seamlessly that you almost feel that everything you have been witness to be the truth.Their close relationship really fascinated me as, squashed into the middle of their six-sister family, Star and CeCe are forced into co-dependency and develop their own special relationship. When Flora and Archie fall in love, I feel like they could have ended up happily ever after with relative ease. Aurelia still had plenty of time to find an appropriate suitor in London and would have been none the wiser. Although for my taste, there could always be more, but I understand that side characters are side characters - I was happy with the various instances of LGBT representation, both fictional and non-fictional Violet, Margaret and Shanti?