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    The Heiresses

    By Allison Rushby

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    In Allison Rushby's Heiresses, three triplets—estranged since birth—are thrust together in glittering 1926 London to fight for their inheritance, only to learn they can't trust anyone—least of all each other.
    When three teenage girls, Thalia, Erato and Clio, are summoned to the excitement of fast-paced London—a frivolous, heady city full of bright young things—by Hestia, an aunt they never knew they had, they are shocked to learn they are triplets and the rightful heiresses to their deceased mother's fortune. All they need to do is find a way to claim the fortune from their greedy half-brother, Charles. But with the odds stacked against them, coming together as sisters may be harder than they think.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781466834811
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    Allison Rushby

    ALLISON RUSHBY, having failed to become a ballerina with pierced ears (her childhood dream), tried writing instead. This has worked out much better for her, since it means she gets to write off her book and DVD purchases at tax time and eat a lot more than a ballerina ever could. She is the author of four teen novels and five adult novels, all published by Random House in Allison's native Australia. She Twitters regularly and blogs at www.AllisonRushby.com. Oh, and she got the pierced ears in the end.

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    • 4/5
      The twenties is an era that I find completely fascinating, so when I saw that this was set in that time, I knew it would be great. Three sisters brought back together after years of being separated at birth, to gt the inheritance they are entitled to, how could there not being any family drama? And that is just what I got. Family drama…

      These are very different young girls, they all have all grown up in such different ways of life too. Eratos is the middle sister, she was, well I guess you could say she was the smart and logical one. Thalia is the oldest of the three, she was a handful to say the least. She wanted the title and the status to go with it. Her methods were a little schemish (that’s a word, right), and she spent most of the time partying in any way she could, even if meant hurting her sisters in the process. Which lead me to the youngest of the three, Clio. I think of all of them, she was my favorite. She was so shy and timid when they all first met, and she didn’t change from that sweet, shy girl even with all the privileges that came with her name. The sisters were definitely entertaining and they all grew as the story continued. There is some romance.

      The world building is filled with squabbling, a run kind of wild freedom the girls Aunt Hestia gave them. She was unconventional, leaving the girls basically to fend for themselves most of the time while she off at her meetings. She wan’t a bad person, and I wouldn’t have minded getting to more about her. Charles, their half brother was pretty despicable, and the sisters have to come together and the inheritance that was rightfully theirs. Historical fiction is not something I read all all that much, but there a few eras that I just enjoy, the 20′s is one of them. The music, the clothes and the fight for social status, and this gave it all to me. Rushby did an amazing job capturing the essence of this time period.

      The Heiresses was more than I expected, and the journey with these girls was fun and exciting. They were all so different, and that makes for some interesting family drama, and there was certainly no shortage, with dark family secrets to betrayals. Fans of historical fiction will love this one.
    • 2/5
      I gave it about 20%, but I had to admit it wasn't my thing. The prose is unsettlingly anachronistic in comparison to the time period that the story is supposed to be set in, and even after 20% of the book I could not distinguish the three main characters' voices from one another because they were essentially all the same. Readers whose favorite genre is juicy and scandalous historical YA might be willing to overlook these flaws, but they ended up distracting me from having an absorbing reading experience.