This beautifully written book follows three sisters and their family through the horror that came with being a Jew during WW2. I may have loved this book more than the first two. I hope Morris is already working in her next title!

Heather Morris does it again. How an author can offer such heartbreaking insight into the trauma and devastation of concentration camp life on one hand, and offer hope, love, and family in the other is just amazing. Beautifully written. Heather Morris is easily becoming the queen of historical fiction. Must read!!

For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey come the next book by Heather Morris with appearances by some of her former characters. Based on the story of three Slovenian Jewish sisters, Cibi, Magda, and Livi, you the reader will fall in love and become one with the sister as they fight to keep their promise to their father to always stay together and find strength in their bond. When Livi is told she is to report to work for the Nazis, her sister Cibi goes with her to keep the promise made to her father. Unbeknownst to them, they were being sent to Auschwitz. Meanwhile, Magda was in the hospital I’ll and kept by her doctor longer than necessary to keep her from being sent away as well.

Heather Morris has done it again with this novel based on the true story of the three sisters. You will experience their journey to stay alive as they spend year after year in Auschwitz and Birkenau. Obstacles threaten to take them, like typhus, being risked in selection of those going to the gas chamber, as well as the bitter winters with minimal food and protection from the elements. You root their victories and become heartbroken at what they experience. This was one of those stories where I lost myself in the story and felt as though I was standing with the sisters as they went through their journey. I even gave myself some time after completing the book to digest what I had read before writing the review. When this book is released, run, don’t walk to read it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Three Sisters by Heather Morris is the third book of a trilogy based on true events as relayed through the author. As with the previous books, Ms Morris does a commendable job of portraying a reimagined but accurate history based on the real lives of the survivors of Auschwitz. Through compassion, reverence, and respect for historical detail, the author tells the stories that, while difficult to digest, need to be told.

Three Slovakian sisters, Livia, Magda, and Cibi bear the horrors of Auschwitz together, but by some miracle are able to escape to the woods where they hide until they can be rescued. It is when they travel to Israel to start their new lives that the sisters realize that the past will never leave them.

Like the previous two books of this trilogy, this one will haunt you long after its final pages have been turned. 4.5 stars

Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC.

I liked this one it was an engaging story about the atrocities of the holocaust. It was very thought provoking.

I am not Jewish and I didn't live through either of the world wars so I wasn't sure how much I would connect with this book. But I have to say that the fact that I couldn't compare the magnitude of what these sisters lived through to anything in my own life, I still felt all the emotions they did as they went through their lives. I felt happy, felt grief, endured the terror and pain, and rejoiced when it was over. Just like they did. If you want to learn about the Holocaust through the eyes of people who actually endured the worst of it, this book will do that for you. The book was inspired by the story of 3 sisters and their extended family who actually went through this.

After reading and enjoying The Tattooist of Auschwitz, I was so excited to read the third book in the series.

It’s easy to root for the sisters – Cibi, Magda and Livi. All three sisters are incredibly brave and strong and as always with WWII historical fiction, I just can’t imagine what they went through. I enjoyed reading more about the war from the perspective of those living in Slovakia, which was unique, and the information about many people relocating to Israel after the war. Morris also touches on survivors guilt and the prejudice that still existed against Jews after the war.

I read the e-book (thanks @netgalley and @stmartinspress!) and found it to be a relatively quick read, though it did feel a little long (419 pages in hardback). I definitely enjoyed the first 75% more than the last 25%, where the location changes and so many additional characters are introduced. It’s neat how some of the characters overlap from her first two books in the series, though none of them played a large role.

As with most well-researched historical fiction books, the authors note at the end really made this story come to life. I had no idea the sisters and their family were based on real people and that just made their story that much more remarkable. It’s a story of heartbreak, but also hope, and such a strong example of the lengths families went to to protect each other. It didn’t grip me quite as much as the first two but I recommend it to historical fiction lovers!

Trigger warnings: anti-Semitism, murder, abuse, starvation, death, grief, torture

Loved the latest novel by Heather Morris. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is nearly impossible to follow up and can not be compared to this one, but I still loved the story and loved the 3 sisters. Definitely recommend for a historical fiction that will keep you reading!
Thank you to netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

A reader must pause every few hours of reading, to just digest this book. Many times, I cried, and tried to read through the tears....I had to pause.
Ms. Morris is a wonderful author and really tells a beautifully haunting story about the Holocaust. But more about the human will to survive.
I have read all of her previous works and she is considerate author and from the letters in the post script from the family, did the Three Sisters justice.
Three sisters is a story about a promise. A promise made to a father on the day before his death. Three sisters promised to always be there for each other.
Then the Nazi's came and the Holocaust tested that promise to the limits.
With tears and wonderment, I read this beautiful book and I encourage EVERYONE to read it.

Heather Morris' book "The Tattoist of Auschwitz" was great. I've read a lot of books about the Holocaust and that story is up with the better ones.

What Heather does, I believe, is find actual people impacted by the Holocaust, understands their story and then makes up a fictional account of the experience. So it's more inspired by the characters experiences rather than an actual representation of them.

"The Three Sisters" is the third book of this style. I haven't read the second.

I don't want to discount or discredit the experiences of the actual three sisters and their families. Had this been non-fiction, I would've given it three stars. It's not, so two stars. I struggled through the book - especially the last half which takes place after the war ends and doesn't seem to lead anywhere.

The book starts with a father, clearly on his last days, telling his three young daughters that they always need to stick together and take care of each other.

What follows is, unfortunately, such a strong commitment to the literal sense of that premise, it caused me to actually roll my eyes a few times. The fact that the story is fictional makes me wonder why the author couldn't make it more compelling. If she isn't tied to dialogue or experiences, why not make it more interesting?

The dialogue is sophmoric and unrealistic. Honestly, for most of the book I thought the youngest daughter was autistic or on the spectrum because of the way her sisters talked to her. She is treated (and acts) like a 6 year old, when actually she was supposed to be 15-18. But then I realized if she were autistic she would've been killed by the Nazis. In the end I realized it was just poor dialogue.

From a literary sense, there were no insights or experiences about the Holocaust that were new or intriguing here. Nothing different than I've read before. The entire point was that there were three sisters who's father told them to be together so they spent their entire life trying to physically be in the same place, oftentimes in some codependent ways.

If you want to read a great book of the Holocaust and the inhumanity of it all, this isn't it.

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A riveting story by Heather Morris about three sisters survival while living in a concentration camp and then making sure that their story is heard for generations. An emotional read, but one worth reading.

Heather Morris did it again. Another historical story about three sisters surviving unspeakable horrors in the concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Heather’s writing puts you in the story and rooting for these characters just to survive the multiple illnesses, beatings, starvation, freezing, and punishment in any form the kapos and SS deemed. The horrors that have to be compartmentalize to keep some shred of sanity break your heart. These women were heroes as were the characters in her other two books everyone surviving the only way they know how. May we never forget…

Three Sisters is an entertaining enough read that covers the lives of Cibi, Magda, and Livi during WWII and the years after. While the writing flowed smoothly, its simplistic style seemed geared more for a young adult (YA) audience.

The lack of editing was distracting. There are several spelling errors and words that were probably auto-corrected. Also, about two-thirds of the way into the book, the girls are sitting with their uncle, and they start calling him “Daddy”. The whole paragraph reads like their Uncle Ivan is their father. Was this an oversight on the part of the author/editor, or did I miss something?

The mention of their promise to their father to look after each other was overdone and became annoying. Also, the constant remember-this, remember-that’s – both during the war and after – came close to me skipping pages.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review Three Sisters.

This is another one from the Tattooist series that although on a similar topic, does not need to be read in order. Characters from Tattooist and Cilka's Journey are mentioned but this story can be read in order or as a stand alone. This book focuses on three sisters and their journey of survival from Slovakia, to Auschwitz and finally to Isreal. Cibi, Livi and Magda make a pact early in life with the help of their father (a WW1 war veteran) to forever stick together and protect one another, and this is what they do. They are surrounded by a host of characters in their family, Chaya their mother, their grandfather Yitzhak, an Aunt and Uncle and cousins, who are all transported out of Slovakia and all whose stories are intertwined.

I really enjoyed reading about how the sisters took part in creating a new homeland in Israel, this is something that I did not know much about and the glimpse this book provided makes me curious to learn more. I enjoyed this one just as much as the others and I highly recommend.

Heather Morris’ new novel, which begins in 1929, centers around three sisters aged 3, 5 and 7 who live in Slovakia. The sisters make a solemn promise to each other and their father, who is on the brink of delicate surgery, to always be together and to take care of each other.

The action takes the reader through the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel. There are stirring and disturbing descriptions of the horrendous conditions and daily activities at both Auschwitz and Birkenau - which this reader could envision and appreciate having recently visited both of these extermination camps. It was also interesting to see how Ms. Morris managed to include characters (Lale and Cilka) from two of her previous novels.

This book is recommended for all who enjoy thought provoking novels based on actual historical events and for those who are able to deal with several emotional and heart wrenching passages. I particularly enjoyed reading the “Afterwards” written by several of the family members depicted in the novel.

I thank NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read this tremendous novel and look forward to subsequent novels by Heather Morris.

What a wonderful 3rd installment of this "series"... When I say a series its not so much a continuation of of characters lives, we get to meet new characters, the Meller Sisters. We are introduced to the three sisters, Livi, Melgda and Cibi. The reader gets to experience their pain and heartbreak of their time in concentrations camps. The reader experiences the Death March with the 3 sisters. The reader is also is there for the JOY... falling in love, marriages and children.

This story does a great job of following the three sisters through s large portion of their lives and letting the reader know what their lives were like.

This is a beautiful story about survival, love, sisterly bonds and strength.

I enjoyed that the story was not only based on three sisters who lived through Auschwitz/Birkenau but unlike most holocaust historical fictions describes the aftermath of what these women faced. Its rare too read stories like this.

This book is such a beautiful tribute to these wonderful women and to all holocaust survivors.Highly recommend it.

My thoughts and opinions are my own and I want to thank you St Martin's Press and Netgalley for the free advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book is the third in a series, but is a standalone story as well. Three sisters, Cibi, Magda, and Livia made a promise to always stick together, and as young girls, they were able to do this easily. However, the war stars, and Livia and Cibi find themselves in a concentration camp, relying on each other heavily to keep going each day. The story provides the sad and disturbing details of their treatment and experience there. Months later, Magda is also sent to camp, and the sisters are reunited.

The sisters hold strong and eventually are freed and return to their home and make plans to move to Israel, where they continue to strive to always stay together.

This book focuses a lot of detail on the Holocaust topic. Their march home and move to Israel has less detail and time spent on it.

Readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey will enjoy the third installment in the series by Heather Morris, Three Sisters. Based on the experiences of Cibi, Magda, and Livi, who as young children promised their father they would always stick together, Three Sisters is a story of strength, hope and resilience in the face of the horrors of Auschwitz.

I loved the first two novels in the series and Three Sisters is on par with them. I especially enjoyed that like in Cilka's Journey, characters from the other books make appearances in this one. Reading the appendices, I learned that Livi really knew Gita from school, as mentioned in the book. A significant portion of the story was about the sisters' lives after the Nazi regime was defeated, which highlights their bonds and how as survivors they dealt with the emotional toll of their trauma.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advance copy of Three Sisters in exchange for an honest review.

This story follows three Jewish sisters who make a solemn promise to stay together and help each other throughout life. Once the Germans came and one sister was separated from the other two, each sister did her best to survive. Eventually, the sisters were reunited and endured the horrors of concentration camps and a death march.

Most Holocaust books I have read end at liberation. This book is unique because it follows the sisters to their new homes and lives in Israel. It is based on a true story. While the subject matter is difficult to read, hope and resilience shine within the sisters' bond.

I was given a free copy of this book by NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine.