A review by lauracooleyjohnson
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

3.0

This has been on my TBR shelf for an eternity. I procrastinated because the blurb called it a “sweeping epic.” And that always sounded more ambitious than I felt up to reading. But it turned out to be a cozy armchair comfort read. Your basic historical fiction. Characters were a little vanilla, and centers on the story of one of seven sisters adopted by a rich Swiss tycoon who passes away and sets them all on their little journeys to discover their pasts. Admittedly a little contrived and not super realistic, but I still enjoyed it. The history part for Maia, Sister #1, flashes us back to Brazil at the time of the building of the Christ statue. It seemed well researched and had a decent love interest with a happy ending. I enjoyed it enough that I’ll probably continue in the series.