austind 's review for:

Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman

3.0

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3/4. I liked it enough to read the next one. In short, it's a Jewish/Nazi romance (though it's a lot more complicated and nuanced than that). I'm partly Jewish, and trying to imagine actually wanting to engage in this type of relationship with Hitler's adopted (but fictional) niece seems a little far-fetched to me. Like, "oh yeah, you've believed your whole life that I'm sub-human, but let's make out." Don't get me wrong, the protagonist, Gretchen, makes leaps & bounds in her personal ideology, and she was, of course, brainwashed by the SA party from a very young age...but still. I know that this type of relationship did, occasionally, happen back then, but I thought that the author simplified the plot and the relationship a bit too much. I would recommend, though.