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marisa9459's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Ohhhh I loved this book as a kid but never got to finish the trilogy. The premise is FASCINATING. I love old Celtic, druid and biblical (fallen angels and etc) mythology. And the prophecy is so cool.
kimal25's review against another edition
3.0
I do not really know what to say about this book. I procrastinated on reading this book for the longest time, years in fact. Maybe I somehow knew that I would be conflicted about this book. I was very excited about this book to begin with; it seemed like such an interesting premise for a series. I borrowed the audio version of this from the library for a long trip, and spent most of that trip procrastinating on listening to it.
This book was a much slower read than I first anticipated. I had expected an action packed fantasy book that would keep my attention the whole way through. This was not the case. There was very little sizzle to Prophecy of the Sisters. Told entirely from the perspective of one of the sisters, it seemed like mostly dialogue, internal rants, and emotional turmoil with very little actually going on. This lasted throughout most of the book. To add to this, I had a very difficult time connecting with Lia (from whose point of view the story is told). She is entirely too worried, helpless, and nearly spineless. If not for the fact that she was basically hand delivered every single clue she obtained, I do not think anything at all would have happened in the book.
Now, that is not to say that this book is a complete wash. The writing was very well done and the situation was very well established for the reader. I considered giving up completely at one point, but I stuck with it. I am glad for this, as maybe a hundred or less from the end, the story finally picked up. Thinking on it, this book seems like it may have been setting the stage for the rest of the series, which would explain the slow pace...hopefully. I will have to think before deciding if I want to read the rest of the series or not.
I am not sure if I would recommend this or not. If you are looking for something with a lot of action, this isn't the book. However, if you are looking for an easy read, with mostly fluff and emotional stuff this is the book for you.
This book was a much slower read than I first anticipated. I had expected an action packed fantasy book that would keep my attention the whole way through. This was not the case. There was very little sizzle to Prophecy of the Sisters. Told entirely from the perspective of one of the sisters, it seemed like mostly dialogue, internal rants, and emotional turmoil with very little actually going on. This lasted throughout most of the book. To add to this, I had a very difficult time connecting with Lia (from whose point of view the story is told). She is entirely too worried, helpless, and nearly spineless. If not for the fact that she was basically hand delivered every single clue she obtained, I do not think anything at all would have happened in the book.
Now, that is not to say that this book is a complete wash. The writing was very well done and the situation was very well established for the reader. I considered giving up completely at one point, but I stuck with it. I am glad for this, as maybe a hundred or less from the end, the story finally picked up. Thinking on it, this book seems like it may have been setting the stage for the rest of the series, which would explain the slow pace...hopefully. I will have to think before deciding if I want to read the rest of the series or not.
I am not sure if I would recommend this or not. If you are looking for something with a lot of action, this isn't the book. However, if you are looking for an easy read, with mostly fluff and emotional stuff this is the book for you.
frootjoos's review against another edition
3.0
This is one of those ones that they should have published in a two-books-in-one set so we wouldn't have to wait for the next one. In Tagalog we say, "bitin"--loosely translated, it leaves you hanging.
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Ok, I give it back a star. I'll definitely read the next. And I think it's a good thing that I'm still thinking about this book a month later. So you're up from 3 stars, P.O.S.!
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Ok, I give it back a star. I'll definitely read the next. And I think it's a good thing that I'm still thinking about this book a month later. So you're up from 3 stars, P.O.S.!
emitchellwrites's review against another edition
4.0
My sister picked this book on a whim. She told me I had to read it. So I did. I've never read anything like this. I cannot wait for the next installment!! It's brilliantly written.
Give me two girls and one amazing story and I'm happy.
If you haven't read this already, get on it!
Give me two girls and one amazing story and I'm happy.
If you haven't read this already, get on it!
lilylums's review against another edition
4.0
The writing style of this book was truly amazing. It helped the story in ways that it needed. It was very creative and neatly structured. Ahh. How I wish I could write as beautifully as Michelle.
I found this book interesting, but I can't help but think there was something missing. Maybe it was because almost the entire book, Lia is searching for answers and discovering her purpose in the prophecy. She kept searching, but I would have liked for something more... dramatic to have happened. Yes, what happened to her brother was very sad, and although I saw it coming it was very surprising, but there still could have been something more.
For what it was lacking, it still was a very unique story that caught my attention. It didn't quite pull me in the way I wanted, but it was still brilliant in the ways that it needed to be. Beautiful story, and wonderfully written characters. Especially- Lia, Henry, Edmund, and Luisa.
All in all, I would give this book a 3.9. By the end of the book she didn't really get anywhere and she was still left searching, so I'm excited to read the sequel.
I found this book interesting, but I can't help but think there was something missing. Maybe it was because almost the entire book, Lia is searching for answers and discovering her purpose in the prophecy. She kept searching, but I would have liked for something more... dramatic to have happened. Yes, what happened to her brother was very sad, and although I saw it coming it was very surprising, but there still could have been something more.
For what it was lacking, it still was a very unique story that caught my attention. It didn't quite pull me in the way I wanted, but it was still brilliant in the ways that it needed to be. Beautiful story, and wonderfully written characters. Especially- Lia, Henry, Edmund, and Luisa.
All in all, I would give this book a 3.9. By the end of the book she didn't really get anywhere and she was still left searching, so I'm excited to read the sequel.
drefulg's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death, Child death, and Death of parent
tmdavis's review against another edition
1.0
This had the potential to be really good but it just fizzled. It looks like it would have a gothic feel to it but that really didn't come across to me. I listened to this one and the narrator really didn't help either. But most disappointing was the fact that it's part of a trilogy which was not indicated anywhere on the audiobook (I wouldn't have even listened to it had I known) but also that the prophecy involves end of the world religious doom and gloom. I was expecting so much more and when it became evident that the author was going this route I pretty much threw in the towel--I did finish it but it really wasn't worth it.
alexisneuville's review against another edition
4.0
Review: http://theyabooknook.blogspot.com/2011/06/prophecy-of-sisters-by-michelle-zink.html
smithers815's review against another edition
5.0
Lia Milthorpe is naturally quiet unlike her twin sister, Alice. She is in love with the local bookstore owner’s son, James, and is living a relatively happy life with her father, sister, and brother until her father unexpectedly dies. It is upon his death that Lia realizes that there is much more to her than she could have ever imagined. She has a strange mark on her arm in which she cannot explain and doesn’t dare ask anyone for fear that they will accuse her of things that she knows nothing of. Her sister Alice has become distant and has been acting strange and Lia doesn’t know who she can turn to for answers about her mother’s suicide and secret life and now the strange mark that is haunting her. Her Aunt Virginia has been appointed her guardian and Lia quickly finds that she is the only one she can turn to for the answers she so desperately wants and needs to survive. Lia learns that she is part of an ancient prophecy that divides the sisters whom it is passed down to.
One good...
One evil...
Who will prevail?
Prophecy of the Sisters is yet another favorite trilogy to add to my shelf! It seems like it took me forever to read it, but it was simply because it was written so well that I wanted to savor every bit of it. The characters are so well written that it is easy to identify with Lia and her struggle to balance love, her family, and the impending decisions that she must make in order to survive. Alice is the perfect protagonist in this novel because she does something one minute that makes you absolutely loathe her and then she seemingly redeems herself the next. Even the characters who are seemingly in the background the majority of the time have a way of weaving themselves into your heart and identifying with them, like Edmund who has become a sort of surrogate father figure for Lia in a very subtle way. Lia’s best friends whom she meets only because of the strange events surrounding her, are also beautifully written and balance out Lia and even Alice throughout the novel. I love that the plot is completely original (at least to me) and that there will be more! Often when I read the first of a trilogy, I am thinking… “Okay, she can finish this story in one novel, why stretch it out?” Not this one! This one just wets your appetite enough to get you ready for the next course… which is going to be so good! Zink has done an amazing job with her debut novel and I can’t wait to see what Lia’s next adventure is when it comes to the prophecy and even more so what Alice is going to do to try and stop her!
Visit Michelle at http://michellezinkbooks.wordpress.com/ and you can follower her on twitter(@michellezink)! I do… and she is amazing!!!
One good...
One evil...
Who will prevail?
Prophecy of the Sisters is yet another favorite trilogy to add to my shelf! It seems like it took me forever to read it, but it was simply because it was written so well that I wanted to savor every bit of it. The characters are so well written that it is easy to identify with Lia and her struggle to balance love, her family, and the impending decisions that she must make in order to survive. Alice is the perfect protagonist in this novel because she does something one minute that makes you absolutely loathe her and then she seemingly redeems herself the next. Even the characters who are seemingly in the background the majority of the time have a way of weaving themselves into your heart and identifying with them, like Edmund who has become a sort of surrogate father figure for Lia in a very subtle way. Lia’s best friends whom she meets only because of the strange events surrounding her, are also beautifully written and balance out Lia and even Alice throughout the novel. I love that the plot is completely original (at least to me) and that there will be more! Often when I read the first of a trilogy, I am thinking… “Okay, she can finish this story in one novel, why stretch it out?” Not this one! This one just wets your appetite enough to get you ready for the next course… which is going to be so good! Zink has done an amazing job with her debut novel and I can’t wait to see what Lia’s next adventure is when it comes to the prophecy and even more so what Alice is going to do to try and stop her!
Visit Michelle at http://michellezinkbooks.wordpress.com/ and you can follower her on twitter(@michellezink)! I do… and she is amazing!!!
crimsonreader's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars
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An overall fine story and a good start to the trilogy. I remained engaged to the end and while it wasn’t a book that hurt me to pause my reading, I was often glad when I had the time to pick it back up. The puzzles were a bit too easy to figure out but I assume that’s less of my skill and more the intended reader age of the book; an estimated 10-13.
Zink has a nice writing style in this that shifts, only as needed, between a semi-removed diary-esque narrative to one focused intensely on the present. The shift was never jarring and I enjoyed it because where the former style works in standard narrative, it would have greatly undermined the emotion of later scenes.
I wasn’t drawn in enough to this work to rush and get the sequels, but that’s not to say never. Maybe one day, curiosity will drive me to answer “whatever happened with Lia and Alice?”
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An overall fine story and a good start to the trilogy. I remained engaged to the end and while it wasn’t a book that hurt me to pause my reading, I was often glad when I had the time to pick it back up. The puzzles were a bit too easy to figure out but I assume that’s less of my skill and more the intended reader age of the book; an estimated 10-13.
Zink has a nice writing style in this that shifts, only as needed, between a semi-removed diary-esque narrative to one focused intensely on the present. The shift was never jarring and I enjoyed it because where the former style works in standard narrative, it would have greatly undermined the emotion of later scenes.
I wasn’t drawn in enough to this work to rush and get the sequels, but that’s not to say never. Maybe one day, curiosity will drive me to answer “whatever happened with Lia and Alice?”