The Heiresses by Allison Rushby is an engaging historical novel with a refreshingly unique storyline. Please click HERE to read my review in its entirety. ( )

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.
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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. ( )