It could be Kreeg is the start of all evil and Pa has been running and shielding his loved ones from him his entire life.

The two may have fought over the same woman in the past, one of them maybe even had a child with her that may or may not be known by now. It is thus more than likely that Kreeg is nòt a friend of Pa’s, rather some looming threat and maybe the starting point of the entire mystery. He had his way with the latter’s daughters, even fathering children with three of them, and even made his wife Pleione pregnant. The legend clearly states Zeus has power over the formidable Atlas.Riley has admitted that they both embody Zeus and his mythical shenanigans, which leads to this conclusions: It is unclear who stands for Pleione and Orion, but I’m sure both characters are somewhere in the story, just waiting to pop out like a jack-in-the-cornflakes-box! Over to the book’s cast: the surname d’Aplièse of course stands for the Pleiades, while Pa Salt is obviously Atlas -fashioned with the P of Pleione- and the father/son duo Kreeg and Zed Eszu both stand for Zeus. Zeus was also rumored to have fathered children with three of the sisters. To protect them from Orion’s relentless amorous advances, Zeus changed them into a flock of doves which he then set in the heavens.

After a chance meeting with the hunter Orion, the Pleiades and their mother became the objects of his pursuit. Author Lucinda Riley sprinkles myths and anagrams like cornflakes indeed, and those contain a fair deal of hints about the overall story.Īccording to the original Greek legend, the Pleiades were seven sisters whose parents were Atlas, a Titan commanded by the god Zeus to hold up the earth, and Pleione, the mythical protectress of sailors. To start with, some mythological and linguistic fun.

Welcome to the Seven Sisters’ irritating pool of mysteries! Because none of the d’Aplièse sisters seems to have been granted the virtue of curiosity, I did some thinking in their stead. There are six of them while they know damn well they should have been a ménage-à-sept, they ask ridiculously few questions about that and the moment they do, the only person holding the key to the enigma slips out of their lives.

The seven sisters books in order