Fire Forged Sisters

Whoa, good question. I can't think of a single book I've read or heard about or seen film adaptations that feature sisters as the main duo overcoming adversity. That's just sad.

I can think of some brother/sister pairings and child/parent pairings, even some sibling/sibling pairings where the two are adversaries, but no allied sister/sister pairings where both receive the same amount of importance in the story. A niche that has yet to be tapped in fiction? Hmmm... my brain is churning on this possibility.

Anyone else having any luck thinking of any?


Edit: a couple of movies come to mind. Looked them up and both were novels first:

The Rabbit-Proof Fence (totally worth watching, adapted from the novel Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence)
A Thousand Acres (a modern twist on Shakespeare's King Lear, from the POV of the two unloved sisters, stars Jessica Lange. Apparently it was a novel too.)

But as far as speculative fiction sister duos go, I'm drawing a blank.

Here is one that came highly recommended to me that might fit what you're looking for?

Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

"The Nightingale is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2015. The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France."

I think how they portrayed Nebula and Gamora's relationship in the Guardians of the Galaxy films might be a good one. From Adversarial to trying to work it out, to being family, to protective of each other.