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The Sisterhood Helen Bryan 9781611099287 Books

I liked the idea of the plot in 'Sisterhood' and I thought it was going to be an excellent read. I am interested in women's rights and the disempowerment of women through the ages. However, although the historical section of the story set in Spain and South America was interesting and mostly held my attention, there were too many female characters introduced which made keeping track of their individual lives quite a mission. The main character in the story, Menina, following her initial adoption by an American couple, and her later rape, appears to fade into the background after her arrival in Spain. She only really reappears at the end of the story. She never struck me as a fully-developed character, and therefore could not elicit much sympathy. She seemed really irresponsible catching a bus alone in a strange country, instead of waiting for the next flight; then losing all her luggage and ending up in a remote mountain village (with presumably no telephone or radio connection!)
There were far too many highly unlikely coincidences in the story, especially the devices used by the author to get the characters to the next location; storms at sea, slave trafficking, capture by handsome lovers and escape with a group of travelling entertainers.
The final chapters were really contrived. You needed to "totally suspend all disbelief" to allow for the "happy-ever-after" ending the author felt it necessary to give her readers.
This story could have been so much better if there had been fewer, well defined characters, and tighter editing.


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The Sisterhood Helen Bryan 9781611099287 Books Reviews

A well written and researched book set in Spain and some country in South America. Peru?

Initially, the story is intriguing, but then it goes off in too many directions and becomes an overload of information. I admire this writer's storytelling talent, but she should stick to her story and not wander all over 16th century Spain. Story after story about maidens in distress, captured by "banditos"—I imagine the author meant "bandidos"— escaping terrible fathers, husbands, fiances, so many stories that I skimmed over the last two.

The present day plot doesn’t make sense; Menina, the main character, is on her way to Madrid when her plane is diverted to Malaga.Somehow the bus she is on takes her to an isolated town in the mountains with no external communications e.g. no telephone where she is told she must stay in an old convent for several days. The whole situation is clumsily handled. For starters, her plane due to land in Madrid is diverted almost 300 miles to Malaga instead of to one of several large cities with airports within 50 miles or less from Madrod. Without giving anything away, the story reason comes to light—while Menina is trapped there, she finds out about five young women in 17th century Spain who were sheltered from the Inquisition by the nuns. A medallion she wears links her to them.

My other gripe with this book is that acts and descriptions are twisted to suit the plot. Catholic nuns willingly give up a child to be brought up by American Baptists. Something that would never happen. Even when civil strife and a hurricane threaten an orphan’s life, a Catholic child has to be placed with a Catholic family. Another incredible fact the above town's police captain, educated in the U.S., is on an important assignment in this same isolated village where Menina is staying. From there, he has to drive several miles to get access to a phone or internet. I don’t buy that. Not nowadays.

This book suffers from the same problem I’ve encountered in some historical fiction books authors who have undertaken extensive research try to include as much of it as possible. The author might have done better writing a book of short stories set in 16th century Spain with the convent and the sisterhood linking them together.
The book was well written and concerns itself with a little known era of European History. One problem is that there are way to many characters and it is easy to get lost and forget the personality of the character. The ending seems rushed, while the rest of the book is timely. I feel it might have been better without the super happy ending, after the multiple horrific tragedies in the text.
Finally I would gave loved to see so much more about the painters and the painter integrated into the development of the novel
Still, I have played the devil's advocate for it was a great read and a truly unique tale. I will always smile from this day forward when I see a swallow on the wing.
This is a somewhat interesting read. The modern-day story is a bit melodramatic, and doesn't have the complexity and intrigue of the rest of the story, which recounts several generations of women and their relationship to a remote Catholic nunnery. The story of these women reveals a fascinating look at women's history through the ages, and the role of nuns, convents, and the plight of women in general. It's well-written, although the journal entry first person narration does make it a bit hard to keep track of the multiple characters. That aside, the historical accounts are much better written than the the modern story, which treats a "date rape" with somewhat casual concern and wraps up with a very bizarre and improbable explanation of the historical portion. It's like the author wanted to do a female version of a Dan Brown tale, then got caught up in the ancient history part of the story for chapters and chapters, then suddenly remembered the other story and used the last 100 pages to wrap that up.

I probably wouldn't recommend this book to others, since I like to pass on books that are really outstanding, and this story just didn't do it for me. The writing was good, and I think the author would do well to find another historical subject to research and write about passionately, but weave a tighter, more emotional tale.

Just my opinion.
I liked the idea of the plot in 'Sisterhood' and I thought it was going to be an excellent read. I am interested in women's rights and the disempowerment of women through the ages. However, although the historical section of the story set in Spain and South America was interesting and mostly held my attention, there were too many female characters introduced which made keeping track of their individual lives quite a mission. The main character in the story, Menina, following her initial adoption by an American couple, and her later rape, appears to fade into the background after her arrival in Spain. She only really reappears at the end of the story. She never struck me as a fully-developed character, and therefore could not elicit much sympathy. She seemed really irresponsible catching a bus alone in a strange country, instead of waiting for the next flight; then losing all her luggage and ending up in a remote mountain village (with presumably no telephone or radio connection!)
There were far too many highly unlikely coincidences in the story, especially the devices used by the author to get the characters to the next location; storms at sea, slave trafficking, capture by handsome lovers and escape with a group of travelling entertainers.
The final chapters were really contrived. You needed to "totally suspend all disbelief" to allow for the "happy-ever-after" ending the author felt it necessary to give her readers.
This story could have been so much better if there had been fewer, well defined characters, and tighter editing.