Reviews

Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris

rowellreads's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

sarge123's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

suehepworth's review against another edition

1.0

Dreadfully written, as per usual Heather Morris books. 
It more or less consisted entirely of conversations, imagined. Story is of women who escaped Singapore in the 1940s as the Japanese invaded. It covers their period of internment in the camps in Sumatra.
True story.

cheryl_currie84's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

chloeab's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

emsbooks92's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

emjames's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

melaniejane's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.0

I wanted to like this book due to the subject matter, but the writing just ruined it for me.
The dialogue was very unrealistic, the characters one dimensional, and there was no real sense of them even being in a POW camp. 

skynet666's review against another edition

2.0

Learning about this true story was great, but the book seemed like it was written for children and/or for a PG rating. Horrible things happened, but I didn’t feel like they were horrible because the characters didn’t seem real. The writing was choppy, and jumped from one conversation to the next without any context, which is very different than her previous novels (which I loved). Just an all around miss for me.

oliviamagneson's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5