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3.88 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
informative
tense
slow-paced
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Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book....I'm emotionally destroyed!
If you enjoyed The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, then you will enjoy this one, as well. Coburn's research is phenomenal and her writing...I felt every single emotion while reading. I had no idea that government-sanctioned brothels were a real thing during WW2, but in the Author's Note, Coburn explains how she got the inspiration for the novel based on true events. If you're Jewish, I will say, it's a tough read. I am Jewish, and there were times when I felt physically ill thinking about this reality.
I have to applaud Coburn again on her writing. She wove the stories of three very different women together so beautifully and presented Hitler's Germany with such detail.
Hilde is a true Hitler girl, she believes in the Reich. A baby will save her or so she thinks.
Gundi is the perfect German girl, but she loves a Jew. All she can do is pray that her baby has blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes.
Irma feels conviction, but would rather blend in and hide. That's until she has to make a choice and pick a side.
This story is beautiful, painful, and important. Never forget. Never forget.
Cradles of the Reich releases on October 11, 2022!
Thank you Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for my eArc in exchange for an honest review.
will be posted on www.jourdanawebber.com/blog on 9/1/2022
If you enjoyed The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, then you will enjoy this one, as well. Coburn's research is phenomenal and her writing...I felt every single emotion while reading. I had no idea that government-sanctioned brothels were a real thing during WW2, but in the Author's Note, Coburn explains how she got the inspiration for the novel based on true events. If you're Jewish, I will say, it's a tough read. I am Jewish, and there were times when I felt physically ill thinking about this reality.
I have to applaud Coburn again on her writing. She wove the stories of three very different women together so beautifully and presented Hitler's Germany with such detail.
Hilde is a true Hitler girl, she believes in the Reich. A baby will save her or so she thinks.
Gundi is the perfect German girl, but she loves a Jew. All she can do is pray that her baby has blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes.
Irma feels conviction, but would rather blend in and hide. That's until she has to make a choice and pick a side.
This story is beautiful, painful, and important. Never forget. Never forget.
Cradles of the Reich releases on October 11, 2022!
Thank you Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for my eArc in exchange for an honest review.
will be posted on www.jourdanawebber.com/blog on 9/1/2022
“That’s part of the problem, Gundi.” Sister Irma wiped away a tear. “I don’t want to be in a world where helping one another survive is remarkable.”
Cradles of the Reich is a historical fiction novel about a very real program where mothers and prospective mothers with the proper Aryan pedigree were housed and utilized as resources for advancing the goal of breeding the next generation of Nazis for the new Germany. The story follows three women, Gundi, Hilde, and Irma, as they navigate questions of identity, responsibility, and relationships in the changing landscape of a country sliding rapidly into fascism.
I find myself reading this book, and so many others, a little differently these days given our own changing landscape. The characters are fictional but the ideology and the courage it takes to stand against the spread of racism masked as nationalism is very real. Cradles of the Reich was a quick and engaging read and a solid reminder of what is at stake when we fail to recognize that our ambivalence is a threat to others' survival.
Cradles of the Reich is a historical fiction novel about a very real program where mothers and prospective mothers with the proper Aryan pedigree were housed and utilized as resources for advancing the goal of breeding the next generation of Nazis for the new Germany. The story follows three women, Gundi, Hilde, and Irma, as they navigate questions of identity, responsibility, and relationships in the changing landscape of a country sliding rapidly into fascism.
I find myself reading this book, and so many others, a little differently these days given our own changing landscape. The characters are fictional but the ideology and the courage it takes to stand against the spread of racism masked as nationalism is very real. Cradles of the Reich was a quick and engaging read and a solid reminder of what is at stake when we fail to recognize that our ambivalence is a threat to others' survival.
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
The stories of the characters feel like they were "half ended" rather than brought to a full closure. But overall it was a good story about a piece of WWII that's not often talked about.