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A review by jessies
The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Louisa, a CIA codebreaker, immigrated to the US from Germany as a child. Through a series of coincidences, she discovers coded letters from her father to her grandfather. Until that point, she had thought her father was dead, but he is alive in an East German prison.
I enjoyed this book. The cold war is a subject is a newer topic for me. I was vaguely aware of the wall coming down in 1989, but I was 8 and didn't really understand what was happening. The book alternates between Louisa's life in DC and her father's life in East Berlin. The beginning of the book was a little slow, but the pace picks up when Louisa travels to East Germany to free her father from prison.
I enjoyed this book. The cold war is a subject is a newer topic for me. I was vaguely aware of the wall coming down in 1989, but I was 8 and didn't really understand what was happening. The book alternates between Louisa's life in DC and her father's life in East Berlin. The beginning of the book was a little slow, but the pace picks up when Louisa travels to East Germany to free her father from prison.