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The Girl With No Name
by Reine Andrieu
What caught my attention to this book was the title and the premise of the story sounds like something right up my alley. I did enjoy this but I also felt that something was missing from the story.
This story switches between the past and present, and also follows three narratives. The plot centers around a young girl, post WWII, who appears in a French village looking haggard and lost. She had no idea who she is and where she came from. She only knew she was running for her life through the woods. A police officer who was working on her case slowly helped her retrace her steps. Through the past timeline, we learn about a French family in 1940s, the Lenoirs, who were forced to house a German soldier in their home but what unfolds was beyond their expectations which changed their lives forever. How is this family related to the little girl? What happened to this family?
The story started off quite slow for me. It took me a while to get into the story but the plot is an interesting one. I haven’t read anything like this before but I wished it was developed more. I also didn’t feel that there was much development for any of the characters but I did enjoy reading about how France was occupied in WWII and how the Resistance secretly operated. I really felt for the characters who lived in fear but yet want to do something for their country. This definitely supported the plot well however, I was quite disappointed with how abrupt the story ended. Despite what everyone went through, and for them to end up the way they did was really quite underwhelming for me.
Thank you Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the arc.
This story switches between the past and present, and also follows three narratives. The plot centers around a young girl, post WWII, who appears in a French village looking haggard and lost. She had no idea who she is and where she came from. She only knew she was running for her life through the woods. A police officer who was working on her case slowly helped her retrace her steps. Through the past timeline, we learn about a French family in 1940s, the Lenoirs, who were forced to house a German soldier in their home but what unfolds was beyond their expectations which changed their lives forever. How is this family related to the little girl? What happened to this family?
The story started off quite slow for me. It took me a while to get into the story but the plot is an interesting one. I haven’t read anything like this before but I wished it was developed more. I also didn’t feel that there was much development for any of the characters but I did enjoy reading about how France was occupied in WWII and how the Resistance secretly operated. I really felt for the characters who lived in fear but yet want to do something for their country. This definitely supported the plot well however, I was quite disappointed with how abrupt the story ended. Despite what everyone went through, and for them to end up the way they did was really quite underwhelming for me.
Thank you Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for the arc.