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The Doctor's Daughter
by Shari J. Ryan
Another amazing book by Shari J. Ryan. I had very high hopes reading this as The Bookseller of Dachau had to be one of my favourite books of last year and as soon as I found out about this one I had to try to get an advanced copy so I could read it as soon as possible.
The Doctor's Daughter predominately follows the lives of Sofia, the half-Jewish daughter of a German doctor, and Issac, a Jewish boy who is the same age as Sofia without all the privileges that come from being born into a privileged marriage.
I loved how Shari decided to explore yet another topic that isn't talked about much in History (let alone historical fiction) and that is that there were, to begin with, "privileged" marriages in the Nazi regime between Jews and non-Jews (from before the Nazis came into power) that meant that some Jews were safe for a while longer than other. It is a topic that I did know a little about but didn't think about the lives these Jews would have had to live being on that balance line between surviving and getting murdered.
The two sides of the story show how although the non-privileged Jews were treated horribly they knew where they stood in society but the privileged Jews didn't know if, or more likely when, the Nazi regime would turn on them in order to achieve their goal of eradicating the Jews. There is almost the same level of desperation in the stories of Sofia and Issac but for two completely different reasons.
Overall, this was another excellent book by Shari J. Ryan and I would recommend everyone reading it when it comes out on April 28th.
The Doctor's Daughter predominately follows the lives of Sofia, the half-Jewish daughter of a German doctor, and Issac, a Jewish boy who is the same age as Sofia without all the privileges that come from being born into a privileged marriage.
I loved how Shari decided to explore yet another topic that isn't talked about much in History (let alone historical fiction) and that is that there were, to begin with, "privileged" marriages in the Nazi regime between Jews and non-Jews (from before the Nazis came into power) that meant that some Jews were safe for a while longer than other. It is a topic that I did know a little about but didn't think about the lives these Jews would have had to live being on that balance line between surviving and getting murdered.
The two sides of the story show how although the non-privileged Jews were treated horribly they knew where they stood in society but the privileged Jews didn't know if, or more likely when, the Nazi regime would turn on them in order to achieve their goal of eradicating the Jews. There is almost the same level of desperation in the stories of Sofia and Issac but for two completely different reasons.
Overall, this was another excellent book by Shari J. Ryan and I would recommend everyone reading it when it comes out on April 28th.