This book was captivating! I had high expectations for this book, and Anna Lee Huber didn’t disappoint! I felt transported while reading this the amount of detail that was weaved in this story made it unbelievable real. The amount of research that must have gone into the book is impressive on its own.. It was a beautiful novel that I look forward to rereading!

I enjoyed this novel set on the Titanic by one of my favorite authors. Even though it’s not my favorite of hers I still enjoyed it.
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“Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads when they boarded the RMS Titanic in the spring of 1912 – and how that maiden voyage would transform their lives in profound and unexpected ways.”, says the publisher , and as an avowed Titanic fan, I was curious about this story. I don't think there's much more to say about the Titanic and its disastrous end, and everyone who, like me, has inhaled the James Cameron film several times already has images in their heads anyway. And that's a good thing, because the images in the film were very authentic, and the author of this book also stuck very closely to the historically proven facts and framework. So, unlike the Rose-Jack -love story, this one is based on real people. The well-heeled Fortune family from Winnipeg actually went on a world tour in 1912 and planned to travel back on the Titanic. So that was a template from real life, even if the author of course spun a fictional story out of it. So we go traveling with the sisters Flora (the eldest, 28), Alice, and Mabel. In Egypt, Alice receives a prediction: the palm reader sees her alone on a boat in the sea and foresees great losses. As a keen reader, we of course know immediately what's going to happen here, but Alice is only uneasy for a short time. Yes, and then the Fortunes board the Titanic. It is a worthy end to the great journey, after all, the Titanic is the largest and most magnificent ship of all time. And just as we strolled through first class and its amenities with Rose in the film, we do the same here with the Fortune sisters. And these three aren't particularly happy with their situation either. Mabel, the youngest, wants to study, but her father is anything but enthusiastic about it, and so Mabel hopes to meet female university graduates on the ship who might be able to help her. Alice, on the other hand, misses her fiancé Holden, whom she loves dearly - but traveling has also broadened her horizons, and Alice isn't really happy about the prospect of a typical small town life as a married woman ... and Flora has completely different problems. As the eldest, she has always been given the role of the sensible one, and she spent the current trip as the chaperone of her younger sisters. Flora is also engaged, but is he the right one? When she meets the tennis player Chess on the ship, everything changes again...
My reading impression: This was great. Dramatic, heartbreaking, exciting, great authentic characters, and of course a cool background story on the Titanic. Each chapter is titled with the date and time, and of course you get more and more excited the closer we get to the evening of April 14th... but even without this knowledge the novel is really well written. You are there live. Captivatingly done. We have romance, action, adventure - the author has taken full advantage of it and the result is a fantastic story that I am very happy to recommend! Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy!

I have always been interested in anything Titanic so I had to request this book.

I was not disappointed. although it was slow at first. I soon became entranced and felt myself aboard this I'll fated ship with the sisters, who I loved.

A well researched and Huber knew how to make the characters feel real. A good titan historical fiction story that I would recommend

Thanks Kensington Books and NetGalley

All thoughts and opinions are my own and aren't influenced by anyone else

I was hesitant to start this book but at the same time excited. Hesitant because there’s just so many books you can read about this ship and excited because, well, what if you discover something you never knew? As well as over half the population, I am intrigued by the Titanic and it’s sinking. Intrigued I think because there are so many mysteries surrounding it that we will never know.
Sisters of Fortune offered me a glimpse into what life must have been like aboard on the days leading up to the sinking. A personal glimpse. And yes, this book is largely fiction, but Huber(the author), stuck as close to the facts as possible. Even delving into the archives.


I would have had the book read faster but with all the names that Huber used in the book, I had to google them all and see which ones were real or just fictious. I’m happy to say she used mostly all real people that were on board including the three Fortune sisters as well as their parents and younger brother. We meet Mabel, Alice, and Flora. The three Fortune sisters who are traveling back from a months long tour ending in Cairo, Egypt. Each one of them have their own crisis on board the ship, the story is largely how they transverse their own conflict.

I would have absolutely loved to have even read a chapter about the third class or better yet had one of the main characters have a moment’s compassions for them as they were scrabbling overboard. Maybe that’s a bit much of my expectations, but I’m sure at least one of the well to do had a passing thought/concern in real life? Hopefully? Maybe I was still lost in the romance between Jack and Kate though.

All in all, I loved this book! Not just because it was about the mysterious titanic, but because Huber made the characters come to life! And we had a chance to learn about most all the first class people, and not just the Astors, Mrs. Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. Strauss etc. But Huber introduces a handful of other socialites and their husbands.

Sisters of Fortune is a well written historical novel set during the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic. The story centers around the three Fortune sisters: Flora, Alice and Mabel. Yes, they are upper-class ladies and yes, they really did exist. However, Flora’s real name was actually Ethel. And…the three sisters each hold a deep secret with themselves.. It has fifty chapters of various lengths. Longer chapters provide background while the shorter chapters are to promote action - especially during the Titanic’s final hours. Anna Lee Huber did an excellent job with her research, it is woven into her fiction like a fine tapestry. Another Historical Novel that should be read!

I would like to thank Kensington Books and Net Galley for the opportunity to read this book as an ARC. I always enjoy historical fiction and have read little of it set on the Titanic. I have read about several of the people on the ship-Madeline Astor, Molly Brown and Lady Duff-Gordon, but had not heard of the Fortune family. The Fortunes, and many of the people on the ship are real, with some being composite or wholly fictional. The Fortune family of Canada made a Grand Tour of Europe with three of their daughters- Flora, Alice and Mable, as well as the youngest son Charlie. While in Egypt, on the tour, a soothsayer told Alice that he saw her on an ill fated ocean voyage, she would live but would lose everything else. Well, Alice tries to put it out of her mind as she boards the Titanic.The story is interesting and the characters well written and likeable. The book drags a bit in parts, but it may be due to the fact that we all know how the story ends. What is fresh is the stories of the three sisters. Both Flora and Alice are engaged and plan to marry when they return. Mable also has a boy friend, one whom her family does not approve of, but her real interest is in education. Mable wants to go to college, but her father will not permit it. Alice is in love with her fiancee, but uses the trip to break free a bit, away from her families constraints. Flora clams to be ready to marry, but her head is soon turned by the attentions of Ches Kinsey, a tennis player . The book is helped by a list of characters at the beginning. It also has the date and time at the start of each chapter. It is a story of a large global tragedy, but also of many smaller, personal ones. I enjoyed this book.

I really enjoyed this book about the Fortune family traveling in the Titanic. As I was reading I kept telling myself not to get attached to anyone knowing how the titanic ended. But the characters were so real and relatable you couldn’t help be drawn in. The writing flowed so well it was like a movie in my head..I love it when books do that! When I first started reading it I was thinking is this going to be a “remake” of the movie…I can tell you it is not…you will love it as much as I have!

Sisters of Fortune, by Anna Lee Huber, started a bit slowly for me and it took me a while (and some notes) to become familiar with the characters. As the story progressed, it picked up and soon I was finished. I love that it was about real people and their lives and how Huber wove everything into an interesting story for readers.
Thanks, NetGalley and the publisher, for providing me with the ARC ebook I read and reviewed. All opinions are my own.

As always, I love a good historical fiction which is based on a true story. This one is set in 1912 when three young women board the RMS Titanic. And so the story begins with these three women reflecting on their past and their lives, little did they know what was really ahead of them.

This is such a well written book whereby we all know what happens to this ship but do we know about these three women and what would happen to them? The story is also well researched and I was very intrigued by this story. Although a little bit slow to start it did build as the story went on and so kept me interested and reading.

I enjoyed the characters, the descriptiveness and the story and I would highly recommend as it is a very interesting read.

Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

The fascination with the Titanic, the ship that would never sink. For decades this ship has held the interest of thousands of people, other books have been written, articles from the tragedy have been brought up and viewed in museums. This book, while it is about the "doomed" ship is mainly about the Fortune family from Winnipeg, Canada. Along with their parents, there are four children, a son and three daughters. Having finished their Grand Tour of Europe, they are now heading home to Winnipeg. Each one of the siblings have futures to contend with...two sisters are to be married, one sister wants to go to university. We take a grand tour of the ship through the eyes of Charlie, the youngest member of the family. It was very interesting to follow this family, especially the 3 sisters as to their thoughts about the convention of the times, the social lives that wrap around each of the girls, and the rules of society, especially among the wealthy. The book was well researched and well written. Yet, even though I have read many book about the Titanic, this version was quite wonderful...giving the reader an opportunity to be up close to a family on that voyage. Highly recommended. My thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Fortune family have completed a lovely tour of Europe and board the Titanic for their trip home. There are 3 daughters and 1 son on this trip. The eldest daughter is engaged to a man back home that her father approves of, but she is on the trip to chaperone her sisters. She meets a man on the ship.

As an avid reader of any and all things Titanic, I was excited for a chance to read and review “Sisters of Fortune” by Anna Lee Huber.

Based on a true story, the Fortune sisters—Flora, Alice, and Mabel—are traveling with their parents and younger brother after completing a trip through Europe. Each sister has her own struggles. Both Flora and Alice are engaged but they question whether they are making the right decision. Meanwhile, Mabel worries that marry—as opposed to going to university—is in her future. All three sisters embrace new challenges during the voyage.

Of course, we all know what will happen to Titanic and her passengers but that doesn’t make this novel any less engaging. The author clearly did her research and the way she portrays the disaster is quite captivating. I did find parts of the story a little slow and there were a lot of stories to keep track of, but overall, I enjoyed this story.

Four out of five stars.

Thank you the author, NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC of this novel.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading "Sisters of Fortune," after thinking it was just going to repeat details of the Titanic disaster which have already been well-documented. This is based on true events of the large Fortune family and their doomed transatlantic journey to their home in Winnipeg, Canada. Three sisters, Flora, Alice, and Mabel, board the ship with their parents and brother under the constraints of proper behavior and decorum as was the norm in the early 1900s. Both Flora and Alice are engaged to be married and are heading home to their weddings, but events leave Flora questioning her commitment to Crawford. Flora meets Chess, a world-renowned and wealthy tennis player who is a charming bon vivant, and he sets his sights and attentions on Flora (this part of the story is fiction.). The rest is history, so they say. This book was a fast read, and well-written. Would recommend to anyone who enjoys historical drama.

This was a bit of a slow burn at this beginning but you will quickly become invested in the characters that the author has created for you. Great detail, and loved the concept of reading a book based on events on the titanic

I’ll give this book 4.5 stars
I loved adventurous Alice so much and the talk about changing the vote among other things.
The girls are so strong and they don’t have to do what society asks them to.
Thank you netgalley for this eye-opener of an audiobook.

I really enjoyed Sisters of Fortune, anything Titanic related i enjoy. The sisters were interesting and i was hooked. I can see this being a mini series.

2.5. Just meh. If you like insipid romance, you’ll love this one. Flora Fortune? Really? Of course she’s going to fall madly in love and get caught kissing a man unknown prior to the ships departure, mere moments before the iceberg strikes. And of course he’ll survive, even though so many men didn’t. Also, he won’t need his frostbitten legs amputated, because love keeps us all from suffering hypothermia in the North Atlantic, my dear. Ugh. The responsible sister just wants to go to medical school, but her father says no. Of course that will be disposed of when dear father does die, conveniently removing that barrier. Ugh. It’s like every Titanic based trope came abroad and then had a competition to see which could take over the story. Good history, ruined by lame fiction.

The best thing about this book is, of course, the Fortune sisters. Although there are some mistakes in the writings, each of the Fortune sisters' arcs are written quite well done that I got attached to them. And let me just say, Chess Kinley? I, too, would jump him if I was Flora

Canadian sisters Flora, Alice, and Mabel Fortune are traveling on the Titanic with their parents and younger brother after completing their Grand Tour. Flora and Alice are engaged, but Flora's fiancé does not seem to be too interested in her. She meets someone on board who is very interested--Chess is a wealthy attorney and tennis player, although Flora initially tries to deny the attraction. Alice becomes somewhat adventurous on the voyage, and Mabel tries to convince her father to stop trying to marry her off and allow her to attend university. The descriptions of the disaster are exciting and nerve-wracking, and show that the author did a great deal of research. Recommended for not only Titanic aficionados, but also fans of historical fiction. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC.