savanna25 's review for:

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

4.0

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I read the book quickly because I had to find out what happened, but at the same time I was sorry to be done with it so soon. The stories of the three women are so compelling, in the different ways they grapple with the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. They also feel sadly relevant to the present day as we are dealing once more with state-sanctioned prejudice and would-be authoritarian leaders.