Hello, bookish friends!
Today, we're back in the weeds as we take on not one, but TWO different tours featuring two very different titles that are equally brilliant! Yes, I let the cat out of the bag, though I'm not sure why it wouldn't been in one in the first place, because while I may be good at keeping secrets, I'm not good at keeping quiet about books I really enjoy! Take today's first one, for example, on tour currently with Rachel's Random Resources...
The Paris Sister
by
Adrienne Chinn
About the book...
Three sisters separated by distance but bound by love
The Fry sisters enter the Roaring Twenties forever changed by their experiences during the Great War. Now, as each of their lives unfold in different corners of the globe, they come to realise that the most important bond is that of family.
Desperate to save the man she loves, Etta leaves behind the life she has made for herself in Capri and enters the decadent world of Parisian society with all its secrets and scandals.
Celie’s new life on the Canadian prairies brings mixed blessings – a daughter to adore, but a husband who isn’t the man who holds her heart.
In Egypt, Jessie’s world is forever changed by a devastating loss.
And back in London – where each of their adventures began – their mother Christina watches as the pieces of her carefully orchestrated existence begin to shatter…with implications for them all…
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I adored, A-D-O-R-E-D the first book where we were introduced to the Fry sisters, and their family, friends, and... secrets. This time around, we add to those connections, as well as the weight of the secrets being toted around. Each sister normally lives life with her full heart but right now, they each are holding back in their own ways, while trying to paint a picture, so to speak, of contentment if not happiness. But I ask you this, can someone who always lived life to its fullest, ever truly be happy with only half? It's one thing not to know ourselves, but another entirely to hide our true selves to meet someone else's expectations, or that of society... and the Fry sisters, and for that matter, their mother as well, have done enough of that for LIFETIME. It's time for them each to live forward with no regrets...I just fear that some may have a harder time than others with things that are about to be revealed...
The author truly puts us beside each character. Normally when I read, I get a general sense about this I'm reading about, but the more main characters introduced, the harder to can be to keep things straight. Here, there was never a question of within who's life we were peeking. It was always clear that we were desperately helping Etta to free the man she loves, or rebuffing a mother-in-law's lack of acceptance with a stiff upper lip beg beside Jessie, or taking on the wilds of a new world alongside Celie with a stubborn man that doesn't quite own her heart. The friendships they made were ours as well. The lives they built, we were privy to, but we also knew the stark truths beneath the veneer... as well as they did. Even watching Christina fall back on old habits was unsettling because of the unacknowledged ulterior motive that ran deep as a river, but could just as easily be tricked into drying up under the attention she was garnering.
So many puzzle pieces, so many stories, so many lives to follow, and you won't want to miss a second! Historical Fiction fans do not miss this moving story!
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About the author...
Adrienne Chinn was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, grew up in Quebec, and eventually made her way to London, England after a career as a journalist. In England she worked as a TV and film researcher before embarking on a career as an interior designer, lecturer, and writer. Her debut novel, The Lost Letter, a timeslip love story set in Morocco, was published by Avon Books UK in 2019. Her second novel, The English Wife -- a timeslip story set in World War II England and contemporary Newfoundland -- was published in June 2020 and has become an international bestseller. Her third novel, Love in a Time of War, the first in a series of four books in The Three Fry Sisters series, was published in February 2022. The second book in the series, The Paris Sister, will be published in February 2023.
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Special thanks to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you and to the publisher for the ecopy for review. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this promotion, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available this month, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copy today and be sure to check out the rest of the tour for more bookish fun!
Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!
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