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doramary 's review for:
We Were the Lucky Ones
by Georgia Hunter
NOTE SPOILERS in my discussion:
This is an amazing family story! How incredibly lucky for a whole family to endure so much trauma, be flung far and wide around the world, and still somehow all survive to be reunited again after the war. I wonder how many jewish families were so blessed. The situations were horrific.
In the telling, because of the constant shifting to each person's different scenario, I found difficult to truly root for the particular characters. As soon as I began to become interested in them, the story flips to another place in the world with a different intense drama to unfold. Wash, rinse, repeat, throughout the book.
Am very glad this family was able to survive. I have to wonder how much was truly 'luck' versus how great those grandparents were to raise their children with the skills and resilience needed to be survivors in spite of horrific circumstances.
This is an amazing family story! How incredibly lucky for a whole family to endure so much trauma, be flung far and wide around the world, and still somehow all survive to be reunited again after the war. I wonder how many jewish families were so blessed. The situations were horrific.
In the telling, because of the constant shifting to each person's different scenario, I found difficult to truly root for the particular characters. As soon as I began to become interested in them, the story flips to another place in the world with a different intense drama to unfold. Wash, rinse, repeat, throughout the book.
Am very glad this family was able to survive. I have to wonder how much was truly 'luck' versus how great those grandparents were to raise their children with the skills and resilience needed to be survivors in spite of horrific circumstances.