Reviews - Children of the Stars

57 reviews for:

Children of the Stars

Mario Escobar

3.7 AVERAGE

kwakagirl's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

rr_author's review against another edition

3.0

I wanted to like this story more than I did. It is a hopeful, sweet tale, and I liked the idea behind it. The characters were interesting, but I found them a bit two dimensional. We got to know Jacob the best, but Moses seemed a bit contradictory at times - and I never really understood why he acted so juvenile when he was eight years old. Almost everyone was nice, but on the rare occasion when they weren’t, their plans were easily foiled by the two children.
The history was fascinating, I read the whole book in one sitting, and overall it was okay. Even though it doesn’t seem to be, I wondered if it was aimed at a bit younger audience.

lottie1803's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kdurham2's review against another edition

4.0

Check out the full review at Kritters Ramblings

A set of brothers were sent to their aunt's house in hopes for a safe place until their parents could reunite with them outside of Germany's occupation. What they thought was a safe place isn't and they end up in the heart of a roundup and narrowly escape, but this sends them on a journey to reunite with their parents and hopefully out of the purview of the Nazi regime.

jennie_cole's review against another edition

4.0

Children of the Stars is the epic journey of two brothers being hunted by the Nazis in Paris to their parents in Argentina. Jacob and Moses find themselves picked up by the gendarme and taken to the velodrome in July 1942. These boys along with a friend escape the trip to the German camps to find out that their aunt has died and their parents are at the other end of the country. They head out to find their parents and along the way are smuggled through a resistance network, imprisoned in a collaborators home, jump trains, and spend time with a pastor whose mission is to save persecuted children. After over a year of traveling Jacob and Moses finally reach the end of their journey.

So many of the WWII novels are about the adults fighting the Nazis and the spies who get caught but this was refreshing to be a story about two very young boys who are able to survive this horrible time through the kindness of others. It was great to have something a little different to read.

mistyprattauthor's review against another edition

3.5

This was decent if you like WWII narratives, although I think something was lost in translation…I found the language to be really stiff at times and I wondered if the original would be better!