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A review by verumsolum
Liebestrasse by Will Dennis, Greg Lockard
3.0
I think I needed to read this more than I wanted to read it. I have not done enough reading about LGBTQ people in history (especially pre-Stonewall and even more especially outside of the United States and Canada). This attempted to bridge some of that cultural familiarity, I think with an American protagonist in wartime Germany.
I think the book was more what I expected than what I wanted. Because we know (at least in broad strokes, even if we haven’t looked into this history directly), we know how Hitler’s Germany treated people who didn’t fit within a very rigid and narrow view of what it meant to be German. And if I may speak of the ending in broad strokes, this book
This book held my interest, but I can’t imagine ever choosing it to read again: it left me unsettled, and I don’t think I saw enough reward for pushing through the horrors of history.
I think the book was more what I expected than what I wanted. Because we know (at least in broad strokes, even if we haven’t looked into this history directly), we know how Hitler’s Germany treated people who didn’t fit within a very rigid and narrow view of what it meant to be German. And if I may speak of the ending in broad strokes, this book
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didn’t sugarcoat things with a happy ending.This book held my interest, but I can’t imagine ever choosing it to read again: it left me unsettled, and I don’t think I saw enough reward for pushing through the horrors of history.