The Shadow Sister is the third book in the
Seven Sisters series and is all about Star (Asterope), the third sister.
Star was always in her sister Cece’s
shadow. CeCe spoke for her and made the decisions for her. After Pa Salt’s
death, Star’s gifts from her father were a jewelled miniature panther and a
letter from him. When she deciphers the clues in the letter, she lands up at an
antique book store in London where she meets the unique Orlando, whose brother,
Mouse, is a grumpy old thing and seems destined to make everyone as grumpy as
he is.
Go back 100 years and we meet Flora MacNichol, a strong-willed young woman who loves animals and due to unexplained (to her) circumstances is forced to go to London to live with Alice Keppel, a British Society hostess. As Flora is introduced to her world and secrets are unlocked and love lost, she has to restart her life with the help of her friend Beatrix Potter. However, a snap decision made for the right reasons, could bring her future to a grinding halt.
Star now has the task of piecing together her part in this bit of history and deciding whether or not she will go back to being in the shadow or taking centre stage.
Go back 100 years and we meet Flora MacNichol, a strong-willed young woman who loves animals and due to unexplained (to her) circumstances is forced to go to London to live with Alice Keppel, a British Society hostess. As Flora is introduced to her world and secrets are unlocked and love lost, she has to restart her life with the help of her friend Beatrix Potter. However, a snap decision made for the right reasons, could bring her future to a grinding halt.
Star now has the task of piecing together her part in this bit of history and deciding whether or not she will go back to being in the shadow or taking centre stage.
Out of the first three books this has
definitely been my favourite—more than likely because of the link to books and
Beatrix Potter. I mean who doesn’t love her books? Flora was quite the woman
and some of the tough decisions she made were staggering. The fact that Alice
Keppel was indeed a figure in history was very interesting and I think that no
matter what moral decisions she made, her independence and freedom of thought
for the time was quite revolutionary. The book has love, friendship, family,
new beginnings and heartache rolled all through it. The book also resonated
with me because it wasn’t a case of finding out the sister came from some
famous line as in the two previous ones—it was more plausible.
There are so many hints that Pa Salt is not
dead and I wonder if the author is just stringing us along. So far, I really
haven’t liked the character of CeCe, so I’m keen to see where it goes in the
next book as she takes pointe position. I’m getting into the flow of the
writing now too, as it (forgive me Ms Riley) doesn’t take brain power and the
need to remember a lot of info as you read. On to The Pearl Sister…
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