After hearing multiple friends rave about this series, I decided to give it a try. The premise of the novels is creative.... a wealthy man living in a mansion in Geneva, adopts 6 baby girls over a period of 10 years or so. He finds the babies around the world and brings them home to be raised with the help of a housekeeper. In the first pages of the first book, the man dies and the sisters return to their home. The father has left each of them hints as to their biological backgrounds, and each novel focuses on one of the sisters and her search for her past.
The eldest sister, Maia, learns she is from Brazil. As she uncovers her family history, we also learn more about Maia. Most of this first book tells the story of her great grandmother with very little information about her other relatives. And while her great grandmother led an interesting life, most of it focuses on her love life. This is when I realized this is a romance novel disguised as a historical fiction/mystery book. There were many predictable romantic elements in the book but it did hold my interest throughout. And even at the end, I felt there were many unanswered questions such as how did her father know so much about her past when it appears he found her in an orphanage? Plus, there are many unanswered questions about the father.
I don't know if I'll read more books from the series. They are easy reading but I'm ready for something else. - June
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