The Sun Sister

I loved every book in this series and I have learned a lot with each one about places, cultures, remarkable people and historical times. Highly recommended, what a wonderful gift to write so beautifully ❤️

I've been waiting for this book for a year now, since I finished 'The Moon Sister' last October. I try to hold out on reading them as I know I'll have to wait another year for the next installment, but the minute I get it I can't help but start it! This series is amazing, one of my favourite ever, each story is so different and yet linked by the enigmatic Pa Salt who adopted the six (seven?) very different sisters. The amount of research that must go into each book is amazing!! This one is about Electra, the beautiful super-model, and the youngest daughter adopted by Pa Salt. She was struggling with alcohol and drug addiction but in denial until she had a really bad night and needed help, which gave her a real wake-up call. She ended up checking into a rehab clinic, where she met a variety of other people who really helped her set off on a new path. Around this time she was contacted by her grandmother, who she had known nothing about, and had never met. When they finally meet her grandmother, Stella, started to tell her where she had originally come from, and Stella is the one who leads us through the side of the story centred in Kenya and the 'Happy Valley' set who were enjoying life to extreme excess before the outbreak of World War II, starting off with the wonderful Cecily who leaves the US to visit her outgoing and very social godmother, Kiki, in Kenya for a holiday, hoping to miss the wedding of her ex-fiancee in the meantime, and ends up marrying and staying there for a long time. From there we go back and forth between England, Kenya and New York, with various people, births and deaths over the years from the 1940s to the present day, with Cecily and Electra being the main characters. Absolutely riveting story, I really didn't want this one to end. Even when I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it and wondering where it would lead next. Sometimes I enjoy the past more than the present in a story, and sometimes vice-versa, but this time I was fascinated by both timelines and even managed to keep the relationships through time, and Electra's relatives, right in my mind, which usually takes a bit of concentration, but this one seemed easier somehow. As usual I can't wait for the next book and the 'missing' seventh sister mentioned right at the very end. Hopefully we'll also hear more about the enigmatic Pa Salt and quite why he was searching for the seventh sister, so there must be a reason each 'sister' was adopted... so many questions I need answering!! But..... then the series will have ended (I presume), so equally I don't want to read it either!

Quite disappointed, loads of unanswered questions, : re Pa Salt for eh. Loads of stuff that could have been in the book, l felt that the Author chopped the last few chapters off. Also a great deal of someone else's story white mischief, sorry bu really dissapointed. We need another book to put all the ends together. And what's that about another sister, we really do need some answers. Too many leads and no answers.😡