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Prisoner of Night and Fog
by Anne Blankman
Historical fiction with a dose of teen romance set in early 1930s Berlin. 17 year old Gretchen Muller is the daughter of a man who is famous for sacrificing his life to save Hitler's 8 years earlier. She considers Hitler to be Uncle Dolf, and he dotes on her. Gretchen, however, is somewhat uncomfortable with some of Uncle Dolf's positions, but doesn't question them until she is approached by Daniel, who reveals that what she knows about Hitler and her father's death may be lies.
As the story progresses the story behind her dad's death and his relationship to Hitler unravels slowly while we learn disturbing things about Gretchen's brother, mother, and friends. The family story is fictitious, but many of the supporting cast and plot elements are based on real-life.
It started kind of slow for me, but things started to gel about 1/3 of the way through, and then I was looking forward to see how things turned out. As it turns out, there's at least a sequel and perhaps a whole trilogy to be made from this.
A note on the recording. Generally pretty good, but I wonder why most of the time "Uncle Dolf" sounds like "Uncled Dorf" and why the German accent is used on some words but not others. Finally, maybe it's my German pedantry coming through, but if you're going to use the German word "Fräulein" please make it sound like "froy-line". Danke.
As the story progresses the story behind her dad's death and his relationship to Hitler unravels slowly while we learn disturbing things about Gretchen's brother, mother, and friends. The family story is fictitious, but many of the supporting cast and plot elements are based on real-life.
It started kind of slow for me, but things started to gel about 1/3 of the way through, and then I was looking forward to see how things turned out. As it turns out, there's at least a sequel and perhaps a whole trilogy to be made from this.
A note on the recording. Generally pretty good, but I wonder why most of the time "Uncle Dolf" sounds like "Uncled Dorf" and why the German accent is used on some words but not others. Finally, maybe it's my German pedantry coming through, but if you're going to use the German word "Fräulein" please make it sound like "froy-line". Danke.