The Moon Sister (The Seven Sisters Book 5)

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Your character Lucía Albaycín is based on the famed flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya. What made you decide to fictionalise the character, rather than write about Carmen herself?

This is the fifth book in The Seven Sisters series by Northern Irish author Lucinda Riley, featuring the adopted daughters of Pa Salt, each named after one of the stars in the Pleiades. This is Tiggy’s story (Taygete) and shifts between her life on the Kinnaird estate in the Scottish highlands and the story of her Gitano (gypsy) ancestors in Spain. On a positive note, I liked that Lucia was such an unapologetically unlikeable and uneducated character, not just another boring wannabe-sweetheart (yes, still bitter about Izabela). Completely self-absorbed, disinterested in political issues, emotional and direct. It's always refreshing to read a character that doesn't cry "Like me! Please like me" the entire book. This book exceeded all my expectations by far. With the 4th book, the pattern of lost love became a bit predictable, and I was wondering if Riley would break it. And, the answer is a definite yes. I found this book very exotic, and different than others.I’ll go up and see Kinnaird and then make a decision. Otherwise, it’s home to Atlantis for Christmas and a rethink. Now, can I help you to bed before I go up?”

No. He may have been my biological father, but that’s where our relationship began and ended. We had nothing else in common. You obviously did with yours.” Although it’s not my favorite genre, I’m so glad I started this series. I highly recommend for anyone who loves historical fiction or anyone who is skeptical about reading historical fiction. I promise you will read a terrific story each and every time! I have LOVED the seven sisters series so far, but this one I admit I struggled with. I persevered as I didn't want to miss any connections to the wider story but I just didn't connect with Tiggy the way I did with the other sisters. No issues with the narrator. Some people have commented on her accents - I thought she moved between characters really well and was consistent as they appeared throughout the book. Miss D’Aplièse, I presume?” she said, her modulated voice holding just a hint of a Scottish accent.

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Well, I hope she hasn’t gone to any trouble for me. I’m used to roughing it,” I said, not wanting Cal to think I was in any way a spoiled princess. “You should see Margaret’s cottage.” Also, an extended appearance by one of her sisters, the reappearance of a past figure that I deeply mistrust, and another sliver of information about Pa Salt, that once again raises more questions but provides no answers. I think you’re amazing, Margaret. You and the animals have taught me so much. I’m going to miss you all terribly.” In all honesty, I don’t think I enjoyed this one as much this time around. As I mentioned in my previous review, Tiggy was the sister I felt no connection with. She is the ‘spiritual’ sister and definitely a little on the ‘earthy and crunchy’ side and she just wasn’t for me. But in this book I adored her tenderness and genuine heart for animals and healing. I ended up really enjoying TIggy almost more than the other sisters so far and that remained true this time around. I thought she was the most ‘modern’ of all the women and I think the one that many modern readers will identify with. She struggles to balance her career with her health and trying to keep her personal life separate from her romantic life.

Yes, although ironically my sisters and I were all adopted by him as babies, so there’s no biological connection at all. But I couldn’t have loved him more. Really, he was amazing.” Good.” Margaret’s bright blue eyes shone like laser beams in her wrinkled face. “What did you think of the laird?” I am, although the wildcats alone wouldn’t really be a full-time job once they’re in situ. Is there anything else I could do?” I remembered I’d been telling him that my dream was to one day go to Africa, to work with the incredible creatures in their natural habitat, rather than behind bars. Like a furnace in here,” Cal complained as we made our way along a passageway that smelled strongly of fresh paint. “The laird’s wife has put in some fancy heating system and Beryl hasn’t learned how tae control it yet. Beryl!” he shouted as he led me into a large ultramodern kitchen, illuminated by numerous spotlights. I blinked to let my eyes adjust as I took in the vast, gleaming center island, the rows of shiny wall cupboards, and what looked like two state-of-the-art ovens.

Christmas Gifts

That’s what Pa Salt had said to me many times. “Life is about intuition, with a splash of logic. If you learn to use the two in the right balance, any decision you make will normally be right,” he’d added, when we’d stood together in his private garden at Atlantis and watched the full moon rise above Lake Geneva.

Ally recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever. But with her life now turned upside down, Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, leading to the icy beauty of Norway . . . I switched off the light, and lay there thinking how all my sisters teased me about being the spiritual snowflake of the family. I couldn’t really blame them, because when I was young I didn’t understand that I was “different,” so I’d just speak about the things that I saw or felt. Once, when I was very small, I’d told my sister CeCe that she shouldn’t climb her favorite tree because I’d seen her fall out of it. She’d laughed at me, not unkindly, and told me she’d climbed it hundreds of times and I was being silly. Then, when she had fallen out half an hour later, she had glanced away from me, embarrassed by the fact that my prophecy had come true. I’d since learned it was best to keep my mouth shut when I “knew” things. Just like I knew that Pa Salt wasn’t dead . . . Tiggy is quite a magical character, in more ways than one, and I felt very attached to her. Throughout the course of this book, she learns about her connection to the gypsy community of Sacromonte. The journey her ancestors take is harrowing, colourful and riveting. When I began writing The Moon Sisters, I didn’t intend for it to be a book about this, at least not exactly. I wanted to write about one sister’s quest to find a will-o’-the-wisp light, which was her mother’s unfulfilled dream. Also called “foolish fires,” these lights are sometimes seen over wetlands and are thought to lead those who follow to treasure. Despite their promise, they are never captured and sometimes lead to injury and even death for adventurers. The metaphor of that fire—that some dreams and goals are impossible to reach, and that hope itself may not be innately good—eventually rooted its way into deeper meaning as the Moon sisters tried to come to terms with real-world dreams and hopes, and with each other, in their strange new world. Still, I thought, as I closed my eyes, I was really looking forward to visiting the Kinnaird estate.

Customer reviews

Due to her crippling arthritis, Margaret was finally moving into the town of Tain, forty-five minutes’ drive from the damp, crumbling cottage we were currently sitting in. On the shores of Dornoch Firth, its twenty acres of hillside land had housed Margaret and her motley crew of assorted animals for the past forty years. Lucinda Riley at the top of her game: a magical storyteller who creates characters we fall in love with and who stay with us long after we finish reading.’ – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Hunting Party