Jennie Jacques Instagram – #theshadowsister 3rd book 📖 of #thesevensistersseries @lucindarileybooks * This book dips in n’ out of different eras, as the protagonist attempts to piece together a fascinating puzzle 🧩 #historylovers Each book in the series focuses on “one” of the adopted sisters 👯‍♀️ Following the death of their “father” Pa Salt 🧂the women are left with letters & clues 🕵️‍♀️ as to exactly where they’ve come from, if they do do wish to further explore. This one ☝️ is all about Star ⭐️ A rocky rollercoaster of emotions with lots of growth & it’s always “educational” in some way – feeding my big fat hungry 🤤 history-obsessed brain! Because Riley mixes “real life” characters in with her made up ones. Then I go Google them 🕵️‍♀️ 😂 Beatrix Potter was featured in this story! Loved that! Not to mention Alice Keppel, Violet Trefusis & Vita Sackville West. The latter few I’d not heard of! But learnt lots about. Star aka Asterope is the sister we piggy 🐷 back aka “The Shadow Sister” & “least brightest” star out of the 7 in the Pleiades cluster 🌌 BUT “closer up” Asterope is made from 2 weaker stars – the metaphor for her discovering her “other side” 😜 Fear not, ain’t as dark as it sounds… she is just finding her confidence & independence – all the good stuff! There is the theme of Star & her next in line sister CeCe’s codependent relationship too, but it doesn’t steal the show by any means. I’d say complex LOVE ❤️ & “the fear of LOVE” (especially off the back of trauma) is at the heart of this piece. I refuse to divulge/give the plot away, please just read – you won’t regret it! Orlando, the owner of the rare bookshop 📚 & his brother Mouse are both individual characters you cannot forget. Plus little Rory, a deaf 🧏‍♂️ young boy who steals hearts is another adding colour to this story. Lots of wonderful worlds rolled into one… I enjoy escaping into the books… even though this was set in my lovely England & didn’t whisk me off to anywhere hot 🥵 I can look 👀 forward to going to Australia with CeCe in the next one 💥 💫 #bookreview #booklover #bookrecommendations #reading