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A review by samantaned
Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman
5.0
I feel like this year I've really been liking my historical fiction, but this was perhaps the biggest wow-factor I've stumbled upon so far, and all through the amazingness and epicness I was killing myself over not having discovered this earlier and given myself the pleasure of reading Anne Blankman's exceptional writing that blew my mind over and over again.
The story follows a young girl in Munich, Germany where the Nazis are on the verge of seizing power, an event that would propel what we today know as World War II, that would come to some of the greatest numbers of deaths the world has ever seen. Before that though, Gretchen is just an ordinary girl, who's family had been lucky to be sheltered by Uncle Dolf after her father had been vindicated a martyr for the Nazi cause by Uncle Dolf, who is non other than Adolf Hitler.
Gretchen follows Hitler's every command, until she meets a mysterious reporter who causes the young girl in the midst of the Nazi regime to question everything she has ever been taught and every personal thought she has ever had. When truth unravels before her eyes, and she realizes that her father hadn't willingly died a martyr at all, but had been murdered, Gretchen's life turns upside down while Hitler's and Germany's stories continue as scripted by history.
Anne Blankman succeeds in creating a story full of real-life historical characters and fictional characters who bring life to the history that has been written about over and over again. Blankman chose to write about this history from a different point of view, and nails every little detail of it to perfection.
Gretchen's character was as vivid and as real on the pages as the historical figures that appear entwined in her story, from 'Uncle Dolf' to his half-niece 'Geli'. And all the fictional characters in between that made the story bloom on the page, and made Blankman's depute a page turner and an absolute emotional ride.
Within this book, you will find characters that you will love, hate and some that you won't know how to react to, and all of it will come to an amazingly written historical fiction that although will leave you reasonably satisfied, will leave you craving for the continuation.
I know myself, as soon as I turned the last page, I was checking my email for any notice that my copy of the equal was gonna arrive at my door ASAP!
The story follows a young girl in Munich, Germany where the Nazis are on the verge of seizing power, an event that would propel what we today know as World War II, that would come to some of the greatest numbers of deaths the world has ever seen. Before that though, Gretchen is just an ordinary girl, who's family had been lucky to be sheltered by Uncle Dolf after her father had been vindicated a martyr for the Nazi cause by Uncle Dolf, who is non other than Adolf Hitler.
Gretchen follows Hitler's every command, until she meets a mysterious reporter who causes the young girl in the midst of the Nazi regime to question everything she has ever been taught and every personal thought she has ever had. When truth unravels before her eyes, and she realizes that her father hadn't willingly died a martyr at all, but had been murdered, Gretchen's life turns upside down while Hitler's and Germany's stories continue as scripted by history.
Anne Blankman succeeds in creating a story full of real-life historical characters and fictional characters who bring life to the history that has been written about over and over again. Blankman chose to write about this history from a different point of view, and nails every little detail of it to perfection.
Gretchen's character was as vivid and as real on the pages as the historical figures that appear entwined in her story, from 'Uncle Dolf' to his half-niece 'Geli'. And all the fictional characters in between that made the story bloom on the page, and made Blankman's depute a page turner and an absolute emotional ride.
Within this book, you will find characters that you will love, hate and some that you won't know how to react to, and all of it will come to an amazingly written historical fiction that although will leave you reasonably satisfied, will leave you craving for the continuation.
I know myself, as soon as I turned the last page, I was checking my email for any notice that my copy of the equal was gonna arrive at my door ASAP!