Worth reading: Yes, if you’re willing to persist.

Summary: George has just lost his father after a sudden heart attack. It is just himself and his estranged sister, now living in America. As George is going through is fathers things he comes across an old photo of himself with his sister, only this photo has someone else in it. A second sister.

His search for his unknown sister takes him to Rome where he finds a family heritage stretching back 16 centuries. A family history that survived the Saxons in Britain, the sack of Rome and the fall of the Roman Empire, right through to the present day.

This book is the first in the Destiny’s Children series from Stephen Baxter and was a fairly hard read. The tale was interesting but the jumping back and forth as the tale of the family unfolds was not coherent. I have read the second in the Destiny’s Children series and there is a huge stretch of time between the two, but this does explain some of what occurs in the second book “Exultant” which I have also reviewed here.

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