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jolenetang's review
5.0
Amazing series. So well researched and well written. I'm convinced that Bodie and Brock are the perfect team for writing books. It has everything that I love (music and European history) all in one. This series also just gets better with every book! Highly recommended.
evamadera1's review
3.0
Just when I was starting to really like these books the Thoene's had to go and add way too many characters to easily keep straight. They introduced three new interweaving story lines (which included at least two new characters each) which often overlapped in theme. (Two of them involved young children trying to get out of Germany to safety.) Even though this series is already long, I feel like this book would be much better served to have been split up into two (or even three) books.
The good parts were all there. The historiography is excellent. (Although I do have a problem with two things: their portrayal of Hitler and their elevation of Elisa and her connections to such prominence that Hitler would target her specifically.) The weaving together of the plots (even though there were too many) is well done.
I will keep reading but definitely hope that the complexity gets toned down a bit. I do recommend this book and it will stay on my self. I just wish it had been written a tad better.
The good parts were all there. The historiography is excellent. (Although I do have a problem with two things: their portrayal of Hitler and their elevation of Elisa and her connections to such prominence that Hitler would target her specifically.) The weaving together of the plots (even though there were too many) is well done.
I will keep reading but definitely hope that the complexity gets toned down a bit. I do recommend this book and it will stay on my self. I just wish it had been written a tad better.
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