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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
One of the best pieces of historical fiction relating to WWII that I've ever read. The audio version is excellent, too.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Maryanne is an unmitigated scold who insists on being the main character despite being the least interesting. Oh I’m supposed to be glad she changes at the end? Yeah hard pass.
After multiple failed starts and an acclimation to the back and forth of past and present....an exceptional read!
I’m not sure if it was because I was listening to the audio version of this book or if it really was just not that interesting, but I found this book extremely boring. I could not get invested in the characters, and usually books about WWII are endlessly fascinating to me. Not this one. The only reason I finished this is because it was the only audiobook I had to listen to while I walked the dog. Sigh.
2.5 stars. Good writing, great narrator if you listen. It had the makings of a good story, but I just didn't connect with it.
I almost put this down several times, not because it wasn't good or compelling, but because the early parts of the book rang so familiar to the national news I was reading to avoid. Yet I pushed on, and was rewarded with compelling and complex characters, I insight into how ordinary Germans could be swept up in Nazi madness and the Holocaust, and a beautiful work about female friendship.
War is shit...aftermath of war is worse. This book started with so much premise that I was excited when I opened up and started to read. I expected so much more but I found the book jumped around too much and didn't delve into all the characters as much as they could have.
I really liked this historical novel set at the end of WWII.