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Monday, December 18, 2023

Finished: Atlas the Story of Pa Salt (Riley & Whitaker) This is the final book in the Seven Sisters series, all written by Lucinda Riley. Pa Salt is the man who had adopted six of the sisters and raised them in safety, all while continuing to search the world for the 7th "missing sister". Each of Riley's books was dedicated to one of the sisters and what her actual heritage was. Pa Salt left the girls letters after he passed away (never having found the 7th and missing sister). The sisters all got together in the previous book of the series, The Missing Sister, to find Merry, their missing sister...and they succeeded! Atlas, the final book of the series, was partially written by Lucinda Riley, and finished by her son, Harry Whitaker, after Lucinda Riley passed away before it was finished. The book was a lovely wrap up to all their stories! We meet Atlas as a young boy in Russia! He suffers a trauma when his father must leave the struggling family in the freezing climate to put food on the table, and then his step-mother dies. His step-brother thinks that Atlas killed his mother and causes Atlas to flee for his life...and continue running for the rest of his life! We then get the life story of Atlas, as person after person, or family after family, takes him in or saves his life. He travels the world, and as he does so, we watch him grow up and eventually be thrown into each circumstance that leads to him adopting his six daughters. He also experiences true love with Elle, and after her seemingly voluntary exit from their relationship, he learns that she was pregnant with the 7th sister...actually his first and only biological child. I'm not going to give away any more spoilers. It's a very good ending to the series and I thoroughly enjoyed it!