The Sister: A psychological thriller with a brilliant twist you won't see coming

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By the time we arrive at the midpoint of the miniseries, things are chugging along as pleasingly and efficiently as you would expect from the Luther creator Neil Cross, who has adapted his book, the psychological thriller Burial, for the series. If you were to engage your brain to what I would consider for an ITV weeknight seasonal offering to be an unfair degree, you would probably be able at any point to guess most of what is about to unfold in the next 20 minutes. You might possibly be able to unravel the thing entire if you remain – even at this late stage of 2020 – astute. But if you keep yourself under control, there is a large enough number of enjoyable twists, clues (to NOTICE, not SOLVE and ruin everything) and red herrings to satisfy your post-dinner entertainment cravings, while still allowing you enough distance from proceedings to wonder where you could buy the lovely wine glasses from which Holly (Amrita Acharia) sips while contemplating her sister’s absence, Bob’s presence, and her perfect but nightmare-prone husband. I did suspect the ending, something Charlie said in the beginning of the book, made the little gray cells work harder, so I was not surprised, rather more pleased that my suspicion turned out to be right. This was one of those books I really wanted to like; there seemed to be such a general buzz around it and I hoped it would live up to the hype. Unfortunately, I just found it average overall.

All of a sudden, the friend has become cumbersome. She's always saying things that make Grace feel insecure and she's planting ideas that her boyfriend is cheating. And now her home has been set afire with her in it. The Sisters is a tense and very gripping psychological thriller, totally twisted in the best way possible – in this case rather than one protagonist you just can’t work out and who will drive you mad, you have two. I really couldn't get a handle on Grace. Certain characters saw her as a strong person and I wasn't seeing it at all. The whole book shows a person who is not handling her grief at all, and was also scared to be abandoned by anyone, and obsessed with her best friend. Sadly Lucinda Riley passed away before completing the final book in the series. Therefore the story of Pa Salt was co-written with her son Harry Whittaker.

I know that I am bereaved but not diminished by your death. Because you are my sister in every fiber of my being. And that fiber is visible-two strands of DNA twisted in a double helix in every cell of my body-proving, visibly that we are sisters. But there are other strands that link us, that wouldn't be seen by even the strongest of electron microscopes...We are conjoined by hundreds of thousands of memories that silt down into you and stop being memories and become a part of who you are." Think "Single White Female" meets "Fatal Attraction" and you have "The Sister". Although I did enjoy this book, I gave it 3 stars because I felt that there were some plot holes in the story. Also, I felt that the ending was a little rushed or maybe that Jensen was trying to cram too much into too little time left in the book. I'm not really sure.

In their quest, the sisters delve into a tale that spans nearly a century—a tale of love, resilience, and selflessness. Along the way, they discover the stories of other courageous women who risked everything to bring about transformative change in the world. As they unravel the secrets of their past, the sisters unearth a narrative filled with profound connections and the enduring power of family. Seven Sisters Book Eight: Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt What rating do you give a book that definitely holds your interest and keeps you reading any time you can snatch a chunk of time, however small, yet leaves you disappointed and irritated when it ends? Which is more important - constantly being kept pulled into a story or coming away at the end of the book a satisfied reader??? As for the plot, mystery-wise it’s not the worst one I’d ever read in a debut but to call it a thriller would be an exaggeration. Let’s put it this way- It did not keep me on my toes but admittedly I just did not care enough to try and keep up. I had my eye on The Sister for a while, and what very excited to be approved for a copy on NetGalley! The book took me nearly a month to finish, however that has far less to do with its plot than with the fact that I still struggle a little with ebooks, and I tend to read only short bits at a time, because the kindle strains my eyes far more than paper. Anyway...

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Gosh I read this fast – seriously once started there is no stopping so there’s a slight warning for you. Don’t try and fit “just a couple of chapters” in before you have to go somewhere. Grief is the ultimate unrequited love.' A different way to think of death, to be sure. Bee's upwardly mobile lifestyle is thrown to the winds as she digs into the circumstances of her younger sister's disappearance. Her grasp on sanity seems a bit fragile, and as the story unfolds, she steps into Tess' shoes and moves into her flat in an effort to learn more. The morphing of Bee from her safely staid life into the more bohemian leanings of her sister is interesting. Is the author being paid to advertise certain products? Why else is it necessary to tell us that Bea wears Emma Bridgewater oven gloves when removing food from the Aga? She seems always to dress in tea-dresses, usually made or designed by someone called Alice Temperley – but Abi prefers Gap. This book touches on mental health issues, which may serve as a trigger warning for some readers. But I felt the author did well to describe how Abi dealt with her sisters death, from the paranoia to the survivors guilt complex.

Every person attending a funeral has his/her own memories of the individual being laid to rest. Conversations, laughs shared, a brief aside remembered, recollections of time spent together, fragments of the whole person, but residing in the minds and hearts of family, friends and acquaintances. Never heard it put quite that way, and the idea is somehow comforting. And that's where the story begins, with Grace trying to recover from her loss and to finally try to find out what Charlie was sorry for. And with the reader wanting to know how exactly Charlie even died (which isn't revealed until very late in the book). It could have been a great story but, for me, way too much of it was simply implausible--over and over again, these things just kept happening that were not realistic and that Grace's character should have been able to see through or figure out. At times it felt like there was no editing involved. There were errors and at time rambling descriptions.When Grace starts an online search for Charlie's father, someone else from Charlie's past shows up. At first Grace is really happy, but it's not long before strange things start happening. She begins receiving strange phone calls, things start to go missing, and she feels like someone might be following her. She wonders if she's in danger or if she's making a big deal about nothing. When she opens the envelope she realizes just how little she knew about her best friend. Since Charlie's death, Grace has become even more determined to find out what Charlie did that was so terrible. These thoughts occupy so much of Grace's time that she feels she won't be able to move on until she knows everything. It's even affecting her relationship with her boyfriend. The character of Charlie read like a manic pixie girl. I got absolutely no sense of who she was at all in this story besides a character Grace was obsessed with. The Sister è il primo romanzo scritto da questa autrice, e nonostante la sua scrittura sia sempre molto buona e scorrevole, non penso proprio che questo libro possa essere messo dentro alle categorie dei thriller, forse nella narrativa. Ma di thriller non ha proprio niente. In its core, Sister is an emotional story about two siblings and their relationship. While there is a mystery going on (and it is quite a good one), the focus is never completely on that - which is why I enjoyed this novel as much as I did. A lot of thrillers focus on the twists and turns, and because of that, the characters end up being flat. Here, that is not the case. I loved reading about both Beatrice and Tess, and I loved how their bond was always strong, no matter how different they were. This is one of those rare thrillers that got me really emotional, and I cared more for the characters, than the mystery - and I think that is why I was really moved and shaken at the end, when I found out what was really going on.