The Three Sisters by Heather Morris is the third instalment in a heart-rending and visceral part-fictional trilogy, based on true stories from survivors of the Holocaust and supported by extensive research.

In 1929, shortly before their father's death, sisters Cibi, Magda and Livi make a promise to always stay together and to always take care of each other. A decade later, as the Nazi threat closes in and they find themselves in concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau, one thing that haunts them beyond their horrific ordeals is that they can't always be there for each other.

Sensitively but accurately portrayed, the book is presented in three sections, spanning the periods before, during and after the concentration camps, and providing a fitting conclusion to the trilogy.

Although reading well as standalones, each book intersects with the others from different perspectives, adding even more depth if read in order.

This book is heart wrenching. It's the story of 3 real life sisters who make a promise as ww2 breaks out, to stay together. It takes you through the terrible times in the concentration camps, through to their start of a new life in Israel and they lives after.

This is a heart-rending, well-written ending to the Tattooist trilogy. The detail and breathtaking humanity of Morris' novels are just spectacular, and this one does not disappoint. It honours the survivors well, particularly as they've worked with Morris to tell their story. Best read with tissues! Thank you so much for this ARC!

This is a heart wrenching book about a period of time that should never be forgotten. World War Two and The final solution is, I think, still taught in schools but these real stories explain it far better that makes dry textbook.
Cibi, Magda and Livia lived through the final solution. They explain the true horror of life in the concentration camps and the author deals with it sensitively without diminishing the strength of the women..
it was a great read and reminded us of this period of history. I loved the notes at the end explaining how the book came to be and where the people mentioned are now.
Thanks to Bonnier books and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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Such a heartfelt read, The subject is of three sister and their live in the camps in WW2. The horror's they went through were written with compassion and sensitivity by the author. This is a difficult read but only due to the subject. Once again Heather Morris has written a heartfelt account of these terrible times

This is the story of three jewish sisters and how they survived the unspeakable horrors of WW2 and the concentration camp life. Its a hard read, but its told so well, you can easily imagine the girls - their different personalities, and what they went through on a daily basis. And to see what paths they follow once they're released and how the past impacts on them. Well worth reading.

Another great read from Heather Morris. I enjoyed this just as much as her previous two books and am looking forward to the next. I liked that this book followed the main characters (The Three Sisters) to the present day and not just thought their time in Auschwitz. I always enjoy reading the notes at the end and seeing how much research goes into these books. I’ve already bought the physical copy to add to my collection.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the eARC.

Another brilliant and thought provoking story from Heather Morris. She writes with such compassion sensitively weaving the story of such a horrific time in our history with delicacy whilst not shying away from the brutal truths. Based on a true story, I was hoping that each sister would survive and make a new life for themselves after the horror of their experiences during WW2. Another amazing true story brought to life .

Having read the previous two books, ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, I was keen to read this one.
Three sisters Magda, Cibi and Livi have all promised their father that they will look out for each other, no matter what. They all end up at Auschwitz, and this promise gives them all strength to get through the atrocious conditions, by helping each other.
The fact that this is once again based on a true story makes it that much more harrowing.
I didn’t connect with the characters as much in this third book but still enjoyed finding out about their lives.
We also see the struggle the sisters went through after the war. They couldn’t just return to their old lives and it was interesting to see the challenges they faced.
Thanks to Bonnier Books UK and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

Kudos to the author for penning down such a heartbreaking true story so beautifully. This book was about the holocaust and it's perfect for fans of historical fiction and true stories. The story was about three sisters- Cibi, Magda and Livi. They made a promise to their father that they will always be together and will look out for each other. So in every hardship, they thought back to that promise and held on.

This story was so much more than a story of war. It was about love, belonging, equality, mental health and so much more. The cruelty that these three sisters faced was beyond my imagination. The things they were asked to do and the condition they were kept in the camp was so terrible. But there were a few hidden angels that helped them along the way.

My faith in humanity slipped as I read this book. So much hate for no good reason at all. That aside, there were a few concepts in this book this was against my religious self political beliefs which I didn't care for. So I slot conflicted while reading the book at times. I would definitely recommend this book for the core story to ask fiction and non-fiction lovers.

Three sisters tells the heart breaking story of Cibi, Magda and Livi and their time in Auschwitz. As young girls they made a promise to stay together no matter what and this tale really pushes that promise to it’s limit. 💙

This book contains the horrors of Auschwitz and had me sobbing on several different occasions. An interesting element to this book was the journey to Palestine afterwards. This is part of the survivors experience I feel is rarely touched upon and made for such an interesting read as they established a new world. 🇵🇸

I have never known a bond so strong and unbreakable between three siblings. This book will shatter your heart into a million pieces yet start to glue it back together again with the sheer ferocity of their love for one another. The courage and tenacity each girl shows in her own story truly is the reason they all made it out together. 👧🏽

This book is powerful and will have a huge impact on anyone that reads it. I strongly believe we should not only read these stories but that we have a duty to share them with others too. The pain and suffering is unimaginable and this book honours them and the people they’ve become. These three woman are heroic and Heather Morris captures this and all the emotions in between in such a beautifully eloquent and respectful way. ✨

After reading and being humbled by Heather Morris’ previous books, ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, I was delighted to be approved to read the third book in the series.
This time we are following three sisters Magda, Cibi and Livi, who have all promised each other that they must stay together no matter what. Unfortunately, they find themselves at Auschwitz, and this promise becomes their reason for surviving and more challenging to keep than ever.
Just like Morris’ other books, this is emotional, tragic and horrifying. What some human beings actually had to endure is truly shameful. The fact that this is once again based on a true story makes it that much more harrowing.
Even though the story is just as engaging as the other two, it didn’t resonate with me to the core as they did. Maybe because they were different and really stood out, and I’m now becoming a little numb to the heartache people endured at Auschwitz, especially as I have read others recently covering very similar topics. However, I could still feel the emotion spilling from the pages; I just don’t think it’s going to leave as lasting an impression as Cilka’s did.
What did make this book distinct was the struggle the sisters went through after the war. They couldn’t just return to their lives and live happily ever after. They still had a long way to go. This side of the story gave the book as a whole an edge and was different from all the others that I have read in this genre.
Heather Morris has once again managed to do justice to these sisters’ stories and has captured all the fear and terror they had to live through. It is hard to say I enjoyed this due to the subject matter; however, it was a very insightful and, once again, humbling story.

The girls story is harrowing and heart wrenchingly moving. It really dragged my emotions down. It’s a difficult read. It is balanced well with the positivity of life after this most dreadful of experiences.

It’s also the only book I’ve read that gives a lot of detail of life after Auschwitz. It also introduces survivor guilt.
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Another amazing book by Heather Morris. Heartbreaking throughout but so full of hope and love. The bond the 3 sisters, Magda, Cibi and Livi have was definitely what got them through those horrific years. To have their family ripped apart by the evils of the Nazis somehow kept them bonded even more. It was lovely to hear how they moved on with lives after those barbaric years in the camps. Amazing story

I was very impressed by The Tattooist of Auschwitz, but really wasn't with Cilka's Journey, which I found to be inaccurate and sensationalised so I was not sure which this would be. Fortunately, this seems to be more remeniscent of her first book, and seems to be very truthful.

The story follows 3 sisters who are living with their Mother and Grandfather in Slokavia. Before their father died he make them promise to stick together, no matter what. When young Jews are starting to be rounded up and taken away, the local Dr admits the middle daughter Magda to the hospital to try and protect her as she has a fever, and she is hidden during round up time at a neighbour across the road. Cibi, the eldest, is in the forest practicing skills needed to settle in Israel in the future. It is thought that Livi, the youngest at 15 is too young to be taken. When Livi is called, Cibi insists on going with her to protect her, even though she wasn't called.

The novel tells of how Cibi and Livi manage to survive in the camps, and how eventually Magda and their mum and Grandfather Are rounded up too and the Three Sisters are reunited for their remaining time in the camps, and how being together kept them stronger for the ordeals they had to endure.

What I liked was that the book didn't finish when the girls left the camp, but continued with their journey back to Slovenia, and then to Israel. You find the 3rd generation living happily in Israel - a testimony to their survival and a triumph of good over evil. The memories haunt the girls forever, and things that happened cannot be undone, but the pleasure they get from their extended family is paramount.

Hearing the comments from their children and grandchildren was wonderful, and finding out what happened to some of their adversaries too was interesting.

All in all a very well written, and interesting book with an important story to tell.

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Wow. I’m absolutely blown away. An extremely heartbreaking but wonderfully written book. What I say here will not do this book justice. Having read both The Tattooist and Cilka’s Journey; I had to of course read Three Sisters too.

I think Heather did an incredible job of describing the three sisters, I had a vision of how they looked in my head, the sisterly bond and the love between them and their family. It was beautiful. To read about the tragic events they suffered broke my heart but also to see how strong they were to survive, stick together and get through the other side made me absolutely love the three of them.

The book definitely gave an insight to exactly what life was like in Auschwitz, capturing the dark side. I think this is possibly my favourite book of the three. I loved how there was so much detail in to their lives afterwards, survival, love and family.

I would highly recommend that if you do read this book, to read the authors note at the end along with the afterwords.

I’d like to thank Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘Three Sisters’ by Heather Morris in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Slovakia 1929 and the father of three young sisters, Cibi, Magda and Livia, makes them promise that they’ll always stay together and look after each other. Thirteen years later their village has been taken over and the Hlinka Guards are removing young girls from their homes and transporting them to Auschwitz-Birkenau to work for the German Army, hard labour with little food and no future if they become ill. Little do the three sisters realise how tough it’s going to be and how lucky they’ll be to escape with their lives.

‘Three Sisters’ is based on the true events that happened to Cibi, Magda and Livia and is a story you won’t want to miss if you’ve read either of Ms Morris’ previous books. The story tells of how Cibi and Livia survive the cruelty of their captors when many didn’t, and how Magda tries to avoid being taken but is eventually caught and ends in the same camp as her sisters. In the Epilogue when the family meet in December 2013, there’s mention of an exhibition in Toronto and a statue called ‘The Miracle of the Three Sisters’ on which the numbers given to the sisters have been engraved on three sides leaving the fourth blank. It’s when I read this and then the author’s note at the end of the book giving details of the sisters’ family that the tears started to flow and wouldn’t stop. This story is heart-breaking, upsetting for a lot of the time, yet I’m so glad I’ve had the chance to read it.

'Three Sisters' was as captivating as the previous two books. This survival journey is not one that I feel like I can pass judgement on because I can't even imagine let alone understand the sheer strength and love these three remarkable sisters hold. Morris' re-tale/portrayal of their awful circumstances is once again so carefully written. As a reader, you can definitely see her commitment to giving us an insight to the sister's incredible story. What really stood out for me with this book was the post-war lives of the sisters. How they couldn't return to their home in Vranov, the abuse they still faced despite everything that they had gone through and the mental effects from what they had witnessed in the camps. But to see their unwavering courage to start again and build their families is so powerful. I'm at a lost for words.

Overall, I am so humbled to have read 'Three Sisters'. I saw this book in the bookshop recently and the photo section at the end just makes it all the more incredible. Seeing the three sisters,: Cibi, Magda and Livi, together in their older age is a testament to their love and promise to each other.

Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

by Heather Morris

This is not what I was expecting over half of the book is a complete rehash of what has gone before in the earlier two books with life in the concentration camps and the horrors that all endued the book gets better on the journey to Israel and life there but it took so long to get to this point.

I still stand by my reviews of the earlier books that Morris lacks an emotional heart in her writing and all the books feel like news reports thrown at me.
I'm happy that I have read these books as they are stories that need to be told to as many people as possible and I thank Heather for this.

However if you have read the first two books I would say that there is not much here that you haven't read before.

I really would have liked more story of the building of Israel as thousands of people settled there to make this a safe and new home after all the horrors' they had to go through during the war I feel this would have been a more compelling and interesting story.

As a body of work I would say this is a good trilogy and one that everybody that reads should pick up and give it the time it deserves.



Just about worth your time and hard-earned cash but the trilogy overall is a must read well worth your time and money.

My thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press for an advance copy of this book.

Gut wrenchingly horrific book. But it deserves to be told.
Because this is a novel, you wonder has it been romanticised? How much has actually been made up and how much is fact. But it is based on fact and has been approved by the family involved so we take it in faith.
What horrifies me even more than the death camps is what happened afterwards. When people eventually made it back to their home countries, they were still vilified and discriminated against, their houses taken over by strangers.
I love to read true history and was glad we were brought up to date with all the family members and also some of the guards in the camp.
Absolutely horrific but what happened has to be told so people realise the depths of evil that pervaded at the time and it is terrifying that these things could easily happen again if people don't challenge what is actually happening in the world.