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A review by chelz286
The German House by Annette Hess
4.0
Eva's life is coming together. She has a good job helping translate documents and other court needed things, she has a man she has been seeing and is hoping for a proposal. She can soon get out from her parents house, and helping with their restaurant. She is ready to start her own life.
She get's offered a very interesting position, to help translate testimony during an upcoming trial. This trial is for those who are being accused of committing terrible war crimes during WWII. She is excited by the concept of taking this on, but when she brings this new position up to her family and boyfriend they are all against her doing it. She doesn't understand why? She is just translating testimony, what is the worse that can happen?
Her boyfriend proposes but upon agreement that Eva quits this position. She doesn't need to work, he makes plenty of money with the family business after all and his wife should be home to have kids. Her parents are really also pushing her to leave the job and start a family and every time she tries to bring it up, her parents shut down and change the subject.
There's something lurking in the past, and Eva can't let it go. The trails start and Eva quickly learns that atrocities that happened, and she now is the one to make sure she is translating correctly, and exactly what is being said no matter how horrendous the event that happened. As she translates, she has these vivid memories that start coming to the surface.
Then one day, one of the witnesses and his wife comes into her parents restaurant and there is scorn and anger shown to her mother. The man and his wife then quickly leave the place and no matter how hard Eva tries to pry her parents make some excuse as to why they left just seconds after. But Eva knows there's more to it. He acted like he recognized her mother.
One day, Eva decides she needs to find out for herself since everyone is still against her doing these trials. She finds the list she is looking for and it is written there in black and white. Then a few days later, a witness is called to the stand that changes the truth that Eva thought she knew and these vivid memories are accurate and did happen after all.
A very good read! I have not read much about trials and things happening after WWII, so it was interesting to read about these trials. I also really enjoyed how the author twisted all the characters together, including Eva's involvement career and personally.
Thank you to Goodreads, HarperVia and the author for the arc I won!
She get's offered a very interesting position, to help translate testimony during an upcoming trial. This trial is for those who are being accused of committing terrible war crimes during WWII. She is excited by the concept of taking this on, but when she brings this new position up to her family and boyfriend they are all against her doing it. She doesn't understand why? She is just translating testimony, what is the worse that can happen?
Her boyfriend proposes but upon agreement that Eva quits this position. She doesn't need to work, he makes plenty of money with the family business after all and his wife should be home to have kids. Her parents are really also pushing her to leave the job and start a family and every time she tries to bring it up, her parents shut down and change the subject.
There's something lurking in the past, and Eva can't let it go. The trails start and Eva quickly learns that atrocities that happened, and she now is the one to make sure she is translating correctly, and exactly what is being said no matter how horrendous the event that happened. As she translates, she has these vivid memories that start coming to the surface.
Then one day, one of the witnesses and his wife comes into her parents restaurant and there is scorn and anger shown to her mother. The man and his wife then quickly leave the place and no matter how hard Eva tries to pry her parents make some excuse as to why they left just seconds after. But Eva knows there's more to it. He acted like he recognized her mother.
One day, Eva decides she needs to find out for herself since everyone is still against her doing these trials. She finds the list she is looking for and it is written there in black and white. Then a few days later, a witness is called to the stand that changes the truth that Eva thought she knew and these vivid memories are accurate and did happen after all.
A very good read! I have not read much about trials and things happening after WWII, so it was interesting to read about these trials. I also really enjoyed how the author twisted all the characters together, including Eva's involvement career and personally.
Thank you to Goodreads, HarperVia and the author for the arc I won!