Endlich war ich in der Stimmung diese Reihe weiterzulesen, aber ich wollte Band 4 aufgrund der Orte an denen dieses Buch spielt, so gerne im Sommer lesen. Außerdem hatte ich mal wieder Lust auf eine Familiengeschichte. Das einzige Genre, wo ich das ganze Drama gerne verfolge! Die „Thailand-Story“ war für mich etwas nervig, übertrieben melodramatisch und ganz und gar unauthentisch. Besonders die Auflösung. Das war ein bisschen zu viel des Guten. Journey to the dusty plains of Central Australia in The Pearl Sister , the fourth book in the number one bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. A spellbinding story of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation.

Sometimes her writing is adequate, sometimes I just want to yell a bit at the nonsensicalness of it. I have so far read all the books published in this series except the second one and it's such a wonderful series. I really love how reach book takes one of the sisters through a journey, not only to a faraway country, like Australia in this book, but also a journey into the past. Ah, Lucinda, Lucinda. We meet again, on another tech-free holiday. I tend to take Lucinda Riley books on holidays because they are long, not totally boring, and are devoid of anything intellectual.A hundred years earlier, Kitty McBride, daughter of an Edinburgh clergyman, is given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of the wealthy Mrs McCrombie. In Adelaide, her fate becomes entwined with Mrs McCrombie’s family, including the identical, yet very different, twin brothers: impetuous Drummond, and ambitious Andrew, the heir to a pearling fortune. Wie immer bei der Sieben Schwestern Reihe mochte ich die Geschichte, die in der Vergangenheit spielt noch ein bisschen lieber als die aus der Gegenwart. Denn hier haben wir mit Kitty eine - vor allem für damalige Verhältnisse - sehr starke weibliche Protagonistin. Ich habe so mit ihr mitgefiebert und -gelitten. Auch wenn ich nicht all ihre Entscheidungen gutheißen konnte bzw. mir eine andere Entscheidung für den Fortgang der Geschichte gewünscht hätte.

CeCe and Star have always come as a pair. Star the quiet one great with literature and speaks very little, CeCe speaks for them both and virtually overwhelms Star and they even have their own form of sign language to communicate. The lonely wanderer who must find where she belongs – beginning in Scotland 100 years ago, CeCe’s story moves from the beaches of Thailand to the pearling towns and Red Centre of Australia. I also have some news. Apparently, this series is coming to TV!! I would love to watch it. You can read more information here: I mentioned this before, but CeCe really annoyed me in the previous three books. However, as I'd hoped, getting her story made me fall in love with her and I might even go as far to say she is now my favourite sister! CeCe's journey was fantastic. There's a section in Thailand, before she heads to Australia to find out her family history.I felt like I’d been reborn. Like all the bits of me that hadn’t fitted… had been stripped down and rearranged. Das Hörbuch ist gut eingesprochen und die Sprechstimmen sind angenehm. Etwas anstrengend war zu Beginn die „deutsche“ Aussprache der Namen, welche für mich falsch klangen, nachdem ich Band 1-3 gelesen hatte und CeCe im Kopf z.B. englisch aussprach. Hier wird sie „ZeZe“ gesprochen, was mich immer wieder irritierte. The story the author told, took me to present day Thailand, Australia and the UK, as well as Scotland in the early 1900’s and on a boat voyage to Australia in those times as well, and as with every other book, interweaved two women’s lives perfectly together in its telling.