Three Sisters

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This story does include some moments sharing a brief glimpse of the horrors to come, but this is mainly the story of those who survived, based on the real stories that were shared with the author.

When I’ve read books about the Holocaust, I find myself reading in disbelief because it is still so hard to believe that these atrocities happened and did so in the recent past, yet there is no doubt they did. Their father asked all three of his daughters when they were still young girls to promise him that they would always stay together and look out for one another. What sets this book apart is that roughly 40% is set after Cibi, Magda and Livi escape the camp and one-third of the story tells of their lives in the Promised Land. As with this author's previous books, nothing is straightforward forward and to try to explain the story. This is a difficult and overwhelming book to review, it was a remarkably enjoyable read but that doesn’t sound right considering the theme of the story.We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. These characters brought nothing new to the over-saturated genre and the repetitive feel made the book drag. As I was growing up, my parents, Cibi and Mischka, were busy building a new life in a new country, after surviving World War II. Cibi and Livi were extremely fortunate to find themselves with two different kapos who were sympathetic to them and got them easier jobs in the camp. Venus shoots a backyard superhero movie, Fritz becomes a B movie actress, and children's TV show host Doralis has the grandest of finales.

I picked it up thinking it would be a nice quick thriller but then I contemplated DNFing at 15%, and I probably should have. As families were being torn apart during WWII, these children promised their father that they would stay together, no matter what happened! Although I had an inkling what was going on with Colin as there was a hidden clue near the beginning of the book, I still didn’t imagine what came AFTER that revelation. In 1942, while Magda is in the hospital recuperating from a fever, 19-year-old Cibi and 15-year-old Livi are sent to Auschwitz.

He knows he will be having a surgery the next day, and wants them to promise him one thing, a promise that they will always take care of each other, no matter what happens.

In Heather’s skilful hands, a compelling, inspirational story of the life of the three sisters began to form. But what they will not tell you is it will make you self centred and indeed can make you very uncaring about others. I couldn’t take their conversations seriously as their immaturity and babyish behaviour and dialogue took away from the harrowing storyline, the true grit and the heaviness of the times. For this reason, this entire story lacked the emotional pull that I have come to expect from this series.An incredible book from start to finish, so emotional and so powerful, every chapter left me desperate to read on. Even the minor characters are pulled into the bigger stories and I think this led to a rather cluttered narrative. Overall an absolutely page turning, addictive, gripping and explosive must read that will keep you addicted from the very start to the mind blowing ending! The two previous book characters were only mentioned once throughout the course of this book and it really didn't need to be there for this story.