“I want you to make a promise to me and to each other that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another, no matter what. That you will not allow anything to take you away from each other…three of you are stronger together…”

This book, based on the true story of three sisters, Cibi, Magda, and Livi, and their unbreakable bond to always be there for each other, will leave you in awe of their lives. Author Heather Morris spent time with two of the sisters and the family and demonstrates great respect in sharing their stories with the world. She takes readers on their journey from a childhood promise to the unspeakable horrors and losses they survived in Auschwitz/Birkenau, to the war aftermath and all the way through to their new life in the promised land.

Although fiction, many scenes play out as they actually occurred. There is a great deal of pain, and each sister carries their own feelings guilt, fear, and sadness throughout their lives. But they are always strengthened by their bond…it is what propels them forward and helps them survive. The author does a good job of not only showing the lack of humanity by friends and neighbors, but also the small acts of kindness and compassion, like buds of hope in a dark world. In doing so, the reader also finds hope in humanity.

One particularly meaningful bit of imagery is when Magda finds a flowering sword lily: “They are a genus of the gladiolus family…it means strength of character….It means never giving up. And it is part of the Iris family, which signifies hope….Strength and hope….These are the finest qualities a person can have.” Strength and hope sums up the sisters and how they survive.

While the true story is compelling, I struggled to continue with reading and needed to put it down and come back to it. At first I thought it was because of the war horrors. But the first half had me enthralled. it was really the second half of the book, mostly part 3, that I struggled with. The pace was much different from the first half and often the dialog was almost forced to get through the story. It felt like a different book. I would probably rate the book a 3 because of this since I just wanted to finish and move on. But then I was completely engaged again and overwhelmed with the ending…the epilogue, authors note, and afterwords by family members. These brought me back to grounding in the story, and incredible respect for the sisters and their life stories. Thank you Heather Morris for writing their powerful story.

“Part of their routine, an unspoken part, is to ask themselves, every day, is today our last day on this earth?….We survived another day”

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC

Books enter your life at the right time so it's fitting that 'Three Sisters' is my first book of 2022. Ending a tumultuous year, the novel reminds readers to embrace the future and feel grateful for our friends and family. Based on a true story, Heather Morris pens the hope and strength of Cibi, Magda and Livia as they honor the promise they made their father to always look out for each other.

I've been a fan of the author since reading the 'Tattooist of Auschwitz' and started reading the novel before its publication in October 2021. I love historical fiction as while often difficult to read due to the subject matter, depicts protagonists overcoming obstacles and embracing life in spite of the tragedies they faced.

While I eagerly awaited reading #ThreeSisters I wasn't in the right mindset to fully appreciate the novel. I put it aside and picked it up again at the end of the year. I cheered, cried and cringed along with the characters marveling at their display of the strength under such devastating conditions.

Thank you to #NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read Morris' heartfelt novel in exchange for an honest review. Sharing the sisters' stories afforded a glimpse into the horrors they faced while honoring their bond that wouldn't allow circumstances to break them.

I don't know how Heather Morris does it. My heart has been shredded only to be put back together piece by piece. Three Sisters by Heather Morris is a story that captures the true horror, resilience, and love of Cibi, Magda, and Livi's life within the Nazi concentration camps and the hope they hold for their lives after they escape. Through it all, they fall back on the promise they made to their father to alway stay together and no matter what, they always do. 4.7 beautiful, bright stars for Three Sisters. Highly recommend.

A beautiful, emotional, stunning book. This is the third in the series but they work as standalones. This is a story of courage and tenacity in the face of extreme adversity. This story of sisters walked the fine line between heartbreaking and hopeful in a very respectful way. The atrocities of this time period never cease to amaze me and the author captured it perfectly. 5⭐️

I have enjoyed all of Heather Morris’s novels in the Tattooist of Auschwitz series, and Three Sisters is just as good as book #3. You can read this as a stand alone, so don’t feel like you have to read the other two, although I encourage you to do so, they are beautifully written.

The storyline is built, as the first two are, on a true story basis, of three sisters, and it is breathtakingly beautiful and heart wrenching.

I think it is equally beautiful that Heather Morris was able to speak personally with Livia and Cibi about their experiences in the death camp, Auschwitz.

The three sisters promised their father to stay together and protect each other, and as Livia is sent to the camp, Cibi decides to go along and then Magda is captured not long afterwards. Once they reunite at the camp, the story of them working to stay together, stay alive, and follow their promise is just heart wrenching and beautifully done.

If you enjoyed Morris’s other novels, and historical fiction based in WW2, I highly encourage you to read this one as well.

Thank you to @stmartinspress for my #gifted copy in exchange for my honest review!

Having grown up longing for a sister, stories of the bond and love of sisters draw me in and help me imagine what a blessing that is. Not only did I love Heather Morris’s previous books (The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey), I would have snapped this book up based on the title alone.
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Before he died, three little girls made a promise to their father to look out for one another. Cibi, Magda, and Livia keep that promise through the Hell of Auschwitz, the Death March, Communist rule, and establishing their lives after that. Their bond, their love, helped them survive.
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This book is fiction, based on the lives of three very real young Slovakian girls. Two of these girls live in Israel today and chose Morris to reimagine their story for her novel. Thus, it is very well researched and quite impactful, but it is still fiction, so the author took some liberties. In doing so she wrote a wonderful story.
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Somehow, Heather Morris can take stories from the atrocities of the prison camps and still let love and hope shine through. The courage and determination to survive in her characters makes me turn the pages, wanting to see how they handle the worst the world can throw at them.
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The Tatooist and Cilka make brief appearances and I loved that, it was like seeing an old friend. If you have read the two previous books, you will enjoy this one too. If you haven’t read the other two, you can still read this and not feel as if you are missing anything. It is a separate and unique story.
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Three Sisters is a heart-wrenching journey of sisters through the Holocaust. Having two sisters myself, I couldn’t help but think about what our journey would have looked like. I thought the story showed that everyone suffered during the Holocaust, not just the people that survived concentration camps. I couldn’t believe that one of the sisters willingly ran to her sisters in the concentration camp. I am looking forward to Heather Morris’s next book!

Thank you to Heather Morris, St. Martin’s Press, and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is definitely going down as one of my favorite books of the year. I see that it is actually book 3 in a series - including The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cika’s Journey. I will definitely be going back and reading the first two books.

This is based on the true story of Cibi, Magda and Livi - the three sisters. When they are young they make a promise to their father to always take care of each other. They had no idea how much they would fall back on that promise.

The story of how and what the sisters went through to survive being sent to Nazi concentrations camps is both horrifying and inspiring. The strength that they had to pull from to survive, is astounding.

The author was actually able to meet with 2 of the sisters.

I can’t even really describe this book, I wouldn’t be able to do it justice. You just have to read the story of these remarkable sisters.

Thank you for the advanced copy of this book! I will be posting my review on social media, to include Instagram, Amazon, Goodreads, and Instagram!

I always feel awful when I don't love a historical fiction written about real life people. It almost feels like I should, however sometimes the writing just doesn't work for you and that is the case here. I found it hard to connect and sympathy with the characters due to the dialogue and that overshadowed the importance of the sisters' stories.

Another amazing story by Heather Morris, I started with Lale and Gita's story and continue with Cilka and now the story of the three sisters that blew my mind.

I really didn't know what to respect after the first two books but this series really was magnificent, the story of the three sisters was amazing, just when I thought I read it all here comes these beautiful ladies to tell us the story of their lives, a life that wasn't easy for any of them but fought so hard to get what they always wanted and dream about.

Cibi, Livy, and Magda are three heroines who fought hard to survive the worst concentration camps Auschwitz.-Birkeanue. Cibi and Livy were taken from their home with promises that they had to help the germans to work, but they didn't know where exactly where was this place they had to help, Livy was just a child and supposedly she wasn't going to be taken but the germans had another agenda and the rules changed so fast making Livy no longer except to their terrible wishes.

Magda was secure for now, hiding without knowing her sisters were leaving soon to this terrible place, but soon things will change again and the whole family will have to change their plans in other to survive.

Three sisters, the true story of three sisters who survive the terrible conditions of Auschwitz-Birkenau, cold, hard work, starvation, sickness, and very unhealthy condition was normal in these camps, they were just kids who had to grow up faster giving up their childhood and a normal way of living because of the evilness Hitler and the SS were spreading all around.

I can't stop thinking about this book, especially after reading the afterword of many of the sons, daughters, and even grandsons of these amazing women.

A promise they made when they were just kids to stick together to stay together always no matter what, a promise Cibi was so eager and so strong to make come true. she fought hard at all times to keep the three sisters together even when they were always outside forces or people trying in one way or another to break them apart. but Cibi was always very smart and was able to make "good friends" that eventually will help them survive and keep this promise alive.

Livy was very young but it always amazed me how strong she was, she saw many things a kid shouldn't have seen, and even after all that she was able to help and continue surviving with the help of his sisters and many around her that supported her and love her.

Magda was always strong and never took anything or anyone for granted, she always felt guilty that she wasn't with her sister the first few years of the concentration camps but fought hard and made everything in her power to recuperate those years and made everything she could to help her sisters and others. three magnificent women that ill remember always.

Just when I thought the first two books of the series were really hard to read, three sisters was even harder. we're talking about children in here many of them being robbed of their childhood and families without any explanation, forcing them to grow faster and work in jobs they were not strong enough mentally and physically for this.

I don't like rating real-life books, it is the experience, the life they went through and it is something we must applaud. Great book, Great story about love, faith, and strength about the bond of a family during the worst periods of time.

Thank you to Heather Morris for this amazing story, Thank you to Kari, Yossi, Chaya, Ditti, Odie, and Dorit for sharing your family's story. Thank you to Cibi, Livy, and Magda for sharing your courageous life with us.

Cibi, Magda and Livi are strong women with a stronger bond. The author does a fantastic job showing the strength of their bond and love through such a horrendous time. The focus is on the sisters' bond rather than the brutal details of what they had to survive in the camps.

The books in the series can be read as standalones but I do recommend them all. They're powerful, emotional, and well written.

T=I have read all the books in this story line. This was the one that like the least. While I did like the story line of how the war affected entire families the story of the girls in the camp was a little too clean. In the other books the stories of the camps and life in the camps was a little more telling and less sugar coated. This book had more of a fictional story line.

Three Sisters, the story of three real life sisters who honored a lifelong pledge in spite of their horrific experiences in Auschwitz during the second World War is another well-researched novel by Morris. I did like her previous two better than this one however there is something almost reverent about reading someone's lived experiences in this way. Morris is a careful curator of memories and her books illustrate a labor of love.

It must be very difficult to write an uplifting story of strength, resilience, love and family commitment from such an ugly time and backstory, yet Heather Morris does just that. Based on a true story, Three Sisters is no less tragic than any other Holocaust story, but the focus is on survival and love. Being a historical fiction fan I’ve read many books about the Holocaust, a couple from this particular author and I am always equally horrified. A normal person can never be comfortable reading and understanding such brutality was ever delivered from a human towards any living being let alone another human; it’s beyond comprehension. Thankfully talented writers like Ms Morris are able to bring these stories to us so this savagely barbaric timeframe is never forgotten or repeated. The thing that mystifies me is how any human body can endure and survive such mistreatment, starvation and brutality. It speaks volumes to the will of the human spirit to survive. Cibi, Magda and Livi are no less than extraordinary and I’m so glad I got to take their journey with them. Miss Morris does an exceptional job of bringing their story to life. I enjoyed reading at the end how the author came to discover their story and decided to share it with the world. Many thanks to the sisters themselves, their children and grandchildren who contacted the author and decided to share the story.

I enjoyed this story and the way it showed an incredible bond between sisters and how that can be strained but never broken even in the most extreme and horrendous environments.

Three Sisters is another tale of courage displayed by ordinary people, faced with unspeakable horrors during the Holocaust, written by Heather Morris. If you’ve read other stories of survival during this awful time period, then the general story may seem familiar to you. But this is a fictionalized true story and that makes it stand out. As the author’s notes and afterword make clear, the families of these sisters were very involved and approved of this book, which is important to know. Their testimony is extremely important, as the years are going by, and we are losing the few survivors we still have, one by one.

Other than the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, I was most moved by the sisters’ interactions with the local people when they tried to return to their former home in Slovakia. Truly shameful but unsurprising to me. Also, the many survivors had to cope with “survivor’s guilt” and Morris portrays that very well.

Although labeled as a series, each book can easily be read as a standalone.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to read an advance readers copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

Heather Morris writes great historical fiction - lots of action, believable characters and scenarios that pull the reader in. Will definitely read more of her books.

Absolutely spectacular book! While I agree with many readers, that this is a standalone, the other 2 books do enrich the reading experience. I have recommended this book to so many. Thank you, Heather Morris, for writing about such incredible real like men and women.

I have loved the previous books from The Tattooist of Auschwitz series and was excited to read book three, Three Sisters. I was not disappointed. Five stars.