The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley

 

The Moon Sister is the fifth instalment in the Seven Sisters series and is all about Tiggy (Taygete) and her quest to find out where she comes from.

 

Tiggy has always felt much closer to animals than humans and has a calming and healing knack with them. When circumstances force her to start work at Kinnaird in Scotland, she jumps at the opportunity but finds her initial work and dwelling not quite what she expected. Granted, her boss is great and she certainly feels uplifted in his company. His wife, however, is frosty and threatening and seems to think Tiggy is after her man! Kinnaird is in financial trouble, and after an incident with a rare white stag, Tiggy decides the time has come to find out where her olive skin and silky black hair fit in. Spurred on by a gypsy on the land called Chilly who tells her she has special powers, she sets off to Granada in Spain.
The back story here is one of Lucia – a child born to dance with the passion to take the world by storm. We move in her story through her father’s ambition and lecherous ways, and how her stalwart mother did everything she could to protect the rest of the family through times of war and poverty.

 

This felt like an extremely long section of the series. And very oddly like a tale of two halves. I completely understand how there is meant to be two sections to join the past and present, but since this is Tiggy’s story it felt like most of it was dedicated to Lucia and her family and only then do we find out where Tiggy fits in. The backstory with Tiggy and her boss at Kinnaird was slightly odd and her “accomplishment” (can’t say more because of a spoiler alert) right at the end was way off base. The romantic interest formula played its hand and I have a bad feeling that the one she spurns will crop up again.
Even though Lucia had amazing talent, she was one of the most annoying and childish characters and I almost wished I could just jump past her sections.
The Pa Salt mystery is still playing in the background and as we came close to finding out a major clue it just got brushed aside.

 

The series is really running out of steam and I’m almost dreading reading Electra’s story next.