Book Review: The Seventh Sister (book 2 in the Parched series)

Author: Z L Arcadie
Title:  The Seventh Sister (Book 2 in the Parched Series)

This book is NOT intended to be a long book.  To be completely honest, I believe it was written so The Seventh Sister was introduced in a way that her sisters were.  However, because of her age, she is not part of the "adult genre" and therefore, not much can be done in her introduction.

We learn she has low self-esteem, and she's just coming into her "powers" as one of the Seven.  We also learn that vampires are an ongoing theme for each sister at this point, at least it can be assumed. 

The plot?  I really feel the purpose was to solely give us a little back story of how she was found and came into her "power" and what her "power" is.  Other than that, everything else was rather weak in comparison to the first book, "Parched".  

The ending, again has a tilt of the head and a wink towards theology and the gift of "free will", yet again, it's not preachy.  We find that the sisters have gone through a battle but  THIS sister finds her body has changed in contrast to her sisters, which is different, because as the previous book remarks the sisters all look exactly alike except in their hair color, eye color and skin color.  She has physical changes now that make her even more different than her sisters.  I think, again, that's what the author intended, giving us a book just for The Seventh Sister.

I must say however, after reading the first book, I was sorely disappointed.  However, knowing the author intended to "make it up" in the third book, I'm sticking with it.....Hope I don't regret it. 

One more question, Does this author proof read or have an editor???

Would I recommend to a friend?

If they wanted to continue on the series yes because they found book 1 interesting, yes.  If not than, no.

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