3 best Lucinda Riley books

Halfway between Nora roberts y Maria Dueñasthe irish Lucinda riley she presents herself as an eminently pink writer, only transported to different historical settings. In a certain way, the romanticism under which these types of authors are labeled seeks in firms like Riley's for a more plausible reflection at that nineteenth or eighteenth century, centuries in which the rules of love still faced a multitude of setbacks. social and even moral.

Stories that are moved by the contrasts between public life and the private sphere, with the moral paradoxes that are triggered among the wealthy classes that once represented the idle world, la dolce vita ... A world of the favored that women almost always supposed the assumption of prefabricated destinations in which the search for real love always loomed into the abyss.

Hence, these stories of love on the edge when not forbidden, of furtive encounters and stolen kisses, of confrontations with destiny and rebellion from the depths of the soul, always suppose an incentive of the first magnitude to satisfy especially readers eager for emotions. powerful.

Between sagas and individual novels, Lucinda Riley is already a benchmark of the romantic genre, with that greater depth that gives any plot a historical foundation, a setting that gives a greater sense of transcendence to stories of this pink depth, usually more associated with a fleeting literature ...

Top Recommended Novels by Lucinda Riley

Murder at Fleat House

Any break in a thematic trend is an adventure for the author and the reader. On this occasion, this approach to suspense serves the cause of both the unlabeling of the narrator and the approach of readers to other types of spaces. A full-fledged uncheck where, however, Riley's previous references manage to provide greater intensity if possible. The emotional from the most romantic point of view to reach more stormy places. Surprise recommendable without a doubt...

At the traditional St Stephens School, in the idyllic countryside of Norfolk, a student dies under strange circumstances. His body is found at Fleat House, one of the boarding schools, and the headmaster is quick to explain that it was a tragic accident. But when Detective Jazz Hunter ventures into the closed world of boarding school she soon discovers that the victim, Charlie Cavendish, was an arrogant, power-hungry young man who tormented his classmates.

Was his death an act of revenge? As the school staff closes ranks and the snow begins to cover everything, Jazz realizes that this could be the most complicated investigation of his career. And that the Fleat House hides secrets darker than he could ever have imagined.

Murder at Fleat House

The lost sister

Seven sisters and seven books that have gotten a patrol of feverish readers. An end at the height of the best omens about the outcome of such an exuberant story. The long-awaited resolution to the mystery of the seventh sister in Lucinda Riley's acclaimed best-selling series. Seven sisters, seven destinations, a father with a mysterious past.

Each of the six D'Aplièse sisters has already made their own incredible journey to discover their origins, but there is still a question to which they have not found an answer: who is and where is the seventh sister? They only have one clue: the image of a strange star-shaped emerald ring. Their quest to find their missing sister will take them across the globe, from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland, on their mission to finally reunite the family.
And as they do so, little by little they will discover a story of love, strength and sacrifice that began almost a century ago, when other brave women risked everything they had to change the world around them.

The Lost Sister, by Lucinda Riley

The seven sisters. Maia's story

Initiating novel of the author's most acclaimed saga. When the construction of a narrative is approached from the richness of diverse characters that are supposed to add perspectives on practically equal planes, the mission gains in difficulty while facing the author with an exciting challenge.

In Lucinda's case, the approach turned out so well that her saga already spans countless works and is read all over the world. In the first installment, Maia D´Apliese takes more prominence. She is the one who introduces us to the others and introduces us to a particular mystery about the origin of the 7 sisters. Because none of them really share blood ties.

It was all due to a continued adoption task by her father who, upon his death, decided to witness the ultimate roots of each of his daughters.

In this first novel we travel to Paris. And in the city of light we enter the life of Izabela, a young Brazilian who has traveled to France with her father. While her father searches for the ideal sculptor for the Christ of Rio de Janeiro, she discovers what she so longed to discover on any trip: the will to live and the possibilities of love without the restrictions of her environment. From those remote days in Paris, good old Maia has much to learn about her destiny.

Other recommended novels by Lucinda Riley ...

Atlas. The story of Pa Salt

Nobody like Lucinda Riley to make a vine lattice out of a family tree. In the first book of the saga, little could we imagine that the presentation of characters in the index key announced such a fast-paced development, linking the comings and goings of all the members of an always surprising family.

1928, Paris, A boy is found moments before death and taken in by a loving family. Sweet, precocious and full of talent, the boy blossoms in his new home and the family shows him a life he hadn't thought possible. But he refuses to say a word about who he really is. And as he grows into a man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Paris Conservatoire, he almost forgets the terror of his past or the promise he's sworn to keep. But all over Europe evil is waking up and no one can feel completely safe. In his heart, he knows that the time is coming when he will have to run away again.

2008, Aegean Sea, The seven sisters have met for the first time aboard the Titan to say a final farewell to the enigmatic father they loved so much. To everyone's surprise, she is the long-lost sister whom Pa Salt has chosen to entrust with the key to her past. But for each truth revealed, another question arises. The sisters must face the idea that their beloved father was someone they barely knew. And what is even more shocking: that those secrets buried so long ago can still have consequences for them today.

Atlas. The story of Pa Salt

The midnight rose

The question to make a romantic novel something more suggestive is to give it that plot complement of weight around an enigma, a mystery, a situation that generates the necessary action.

As if the setting in India at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, between the ostentation and the tinsel of the peak of the Indian castes, the Maharajas, were not enough, the plot is complemented by the experiences of Anahita Chavan. These are days when England still retains colonial power over India, awaiting the subsequent CommonWealth. Relations between the empire and this colony favor relationships of all kinds in which the leading role of Anahita Chavan writes its own particular history.

The legacy of this woman is recomposed many years later by a descendant, together with an actress who is fascinated by the story of the emblematic Anahita.

The girl on the cliff

Perhaps the least romantic story of those written in this genre by Riley. And it is that the narrative around Grania and her return to Ireland acquires darker overtones of adventure and risk.

Grania just looks for that haven of abandonment after a love failure in a place as different as New York. But her contact with little Aurora Lisle leads her into a labyrinth of intense emotions.

The past is sometimes a bond that insists on suffocating the present, which drowns out any possibility of normal coexistence. The house of Grania's parents, in which she now takes refuge from her ghosts, and the home of the girl Aurora were once embroiled in a particular dispute that many years later can rekindle old quarrels.

What happened between the Ryans and the Lisles seems to sink into a muddy terrain of discord and animosity in which Grania can hardly find a reconciliation.

A novel in which we enjoy the power of the present and the new bridges that are being built as the best option to overcome a past, no matter how serious it may be and no matter how difficult it is to cross ...

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9 comments on "3 best Lucinda Riley books"

  1. Juan, to talk about books is not necessary to read them? Maia's story is not correct, she does not travel to Paris with her father, nor is her father a sculptor.

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    • But ... who said that Maia traveled to Paris and that her father was a sculptor? I only indicated that from Izabela's trip to Paris, with her father, Maia has a lot to learn because a large part of her existential doubts find their source there ...

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    • Isabella is partie à Paris avec une amie et les parents de celle-ci. Her father is the researcher of a sculptor for the statue of Christ. This is the one that Isabella has the knowledge of the assistant du sculpteur who is ensuite to come to Rio for the creation of the statue.

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    • I don't know ... a lot has been announced for a long time but you don't see anything out there anymore ...

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