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356th out of 417 books
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329 voters
Tribunal (Traitor )
by
Sandra Grey
Berlin, 1945 Major Rolf Schulmann lies close to death in a military hospital after enduring the horrors of a concentration camp. Revived from a coma through a priesthood blessing, he slowly returns to health as his fiancée, Marie Jacobson, tenderly cares for his deep physical and spiritual wounds. Meanwhile Rolf s best friend, SS Lieutenant Hans Brenner, begins to overcome...more
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Published
January 28th 2009
by Covenant Communications
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I really didn't like this one for the first 100 pages or so. The last book left off on a cliffhanger for Rolf and Marie and this book focused on different characters. It was hard for me to care about them and their storyline bored me at first. I was severely tempted to skip to the Rolf and Marie parts. Fortunately, with time, I was able to care about the other characters and the book included more of Rolf and Marie. I also would have appreciated more psychological depth. I found it weird that th...more
Tribunal is the sequel to Traitor. If you haven't read Traitor yet read it first. It is amazing! Tribunal is almost just as good as Traitor. (The reason it is not better is because it is not quite as original, or new. Of course it is almost impossible for a sequel to be as original as the first since it depends upon the first novel.) The reason I love Tribunal is because of the hope it offers. It shows us that there is hope for all of us. That was can be forgiven. In it a Nazi officer faces a Tr...more
I loved this sequel to Traitor; in fact I liked the sequel better than the first book. I wish that I could give this book 4 1/2 stars. I was able to jump into this novel faster than the first one, mainly because I "knew" the characters from the 1st book. It was good to find out what happened to Rolf, after he was left in such a precarious position in Traitor. I absolutely love the character of Hans Brenner. He is a true, selfless hero.
I like Sandra Grey's writing style; it clicks with me. The wa...more
I like Sandra Grey's writing style; it clicks with me. The wa...more
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I only gave this three stars first of all because I will never be a fan of lds (Mormon) fiction. This is the second book in the story and in a lot of ways I felt like it was the same story all over again. The plot was very interesting though. But all of the little twists to the story started to be overwhelming and made the story a little far fetched. The character development I thought was very good. I liked how the author developed the bad guy (Viktor) the best. I couldn't tell if he was good,...more
Berlin, 1945
Major Rolf Schulmann lies close to death in a military hospital after enduring the horrors of a concentration camp. Revived from a coma through a priesthood blessing, he slowly returns to health as his fiancée, Marie Jacobson, tenderly cares for his deep physical and spiritual wounds. Meanwhile Rolf ’s best friend, SS Lieutenant Hans Brenner, begins to overcome the despair and depression of his postwar gutter-rat existence as he finds himself falling for Natalie Allred, a beautiful...more
Major Rolf Schulmann lies close to death in a military hospital after enduring the horrors of a concentration camp. Revived from a coma through a priesthood blessing, he slowly returns to health as his fiancée, Marie Jacobson, tenderly cares for his deep physical and spiritual wounds. Meanwhile Rolf ’s best friend, SS Lieutenant Hans Brenner, begins to overcome the despair and depression of his postwar gutter-rat existence as he finds himself falling for Natalie Allred, a beautiful...more
Note: this is one of the novels I'm reading as a voter for the Whitney Awards. My rating and review may or may not be indicative of how I will cast my vote.
Tribunal really didn't work for me. The mixture of Mormon romance novel and spy thriller and post-WWII historical fiction is awkward (and this is coming from someone who very much likes hybridization in his novels). The writing is workmanlike, but in places it falls of the tracks. Everything stretches believability -- which is fine, but it do...more
Tribunal really didn't work for me. The mixture of Mormon romance novel and spy thriller and post-WWII historical fiction is awkward (and this is coming from someone who very much likes hybridization in his novels). The writing is workmanlike, but in places it falls of the tracks. Everything stretches believability -- which is fine, but it do...more
As generally happens with books in series, I liked the first one best. I like the historical fiction of this series enough to wade through the romance (it's by an LDS author and about LDS people so it's squeaky clean). It's good enough to finish out the series (there is a 3rd). As a side note, the model on the cover is my little sister's good friend (a mutual friend of theirs designed the cover). That was a little weird for me to see a personal acquaintance on a book cover!
Still a good story, makes more sense for the third book which read first not knowing this was a trilogy. If you read this trilogy I would start with the first book. This one was a lot better than the first one, still has a bit of the romance, but is not the sappy romance story as the first book. The story deals with Germany after the war and the American side compared with the Russian side in dealing with the Germans.
Interesting historical fiction. The writing and story weren't as strong as the first book, but the characters were a little more interesting. I generally dislike romances, but this had enough history in it I could deal with it. On the positive side - it's clean, it's a decent story, it's well-researched and it is very uplifting. We'll be reading the third book eventually. We already have it.
If I read them say "get married in the temple in America for eternity' one more time I think I might start pulling out my eyebrows. A little overdone. BUT, the story itself, the plot, the characters, their plight and the historical fiction-ness of it all was really quite good and kept me reading many hours, in a row, to finish.
Although not as good as Grey's earlier book, Traitor, Tribunal is almost as good, and deals with a time and place in history--Berlin and the rest of Europe just after World War II--that is not as well covered in most people's history classes and reading. The cover art is terrible and the story is not just the continuation and resolution of the first book, as some will expect, but also continues the story of Rolf's friend, Hans Brenner, and his relationship with an American nurse, Natalie. The st...more
I absolutely loved this book. I read the first one, and then had to wait a little bit because I couldn't find this one. I loved the first one too, and this one was amazing as well. I liked how Hans at last found faith in the gospel, and found a girl that he can love forever. I loved the story of facing those dang Soviets and facing up to what you've done in the war.
As soon as I finished Traitor I put this book on hold at the library. It was a long week to wait for it to come in. This book follows the character of Hans, who is introduced in Traitor. Again, I loved the history I learned through the story and enjoyed watching the characters. I don't think I liked it quite as much as Traitor, but I wonder if that is because I expected it would be about the same characters as Traitor and then didn't see much of them in the first half of the book. I also felt th...more
This is #2 in the series. I read Traitor and enjoyed it immensely and Tribunal did not disappoint. Again, the historic research and development were fantastic, the characters feel like old friends and I found myself cheering them on all the way. The descriptions of post-war Europe felt very real to me, and I appreciated that the author did not 'sugar-coat' some events and descriptions- it WAS bad after the war. I also felt very inspired by the main characters moral fortitude and personal strengt...more
I loved this sequel to Traitor; in fact I liked the sequel better than the first book. The readers are able to jump into this novel faster than the first one, mainly because we know the characters from the first book. It was good to find out what happened to Rolf, after he was left in such a precarious position in Traitor. I absolutely love the character of Hans Brenner. He is a true, selfless hero.
I like Sandra Grey's writing style. The way that the history is written is very interesting. I li...more
I like Sandra Grey's writing style. The way that the history is written is very interesting. I li...more
I picked this book up because I thought the author's first book, Traitor, was decent. Wasn't too impressed with this one. During the first third of the book I kept thinking that Sandra Grey must have been up against a tight publishing deadline and so decided that spell check and grammar check were the only forms of editing she needed. The only reason I kept reading was because I like Hans and wanted to see what happened to him. The last half of the book did get better. The plot was interesting,...more
really like this series love the character development. the author also did a great job with the historical part of the series and I enjoy her research notes at the back of the book.
I really enjoyed this second book of the series, although not as much as the first one. This book didn't have as many happy, joyful minutes as the first book had throughout it. But Tribunal was suspenseful and engaging. I liked the historical notes that helped me learn as I read. And I liked the LDS influence in the book, with the characters relying on their faith and God to help them through their hard, post-WWII events.
What took me so long? I finished the first in this series of 3 last summer and was anxious to pick up the next two - they have been sitting on my shelf for almost a year and I finally got around to reading it! It was wonderful! Grey weaves the history of this post-WWII story through a very different angle. It is about a Nazi major who is also a member of the church - I know it sounds a little corny but I couldn't put it down! This second book brings in a new character - nurse Natalie - also LDS....more
Hans was by far my favorite character from the first book, and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing more from him as well as the continuing story of Rolf and Marie.
Rolf and Hans are trying to get through the war as they also try to stay alive. This book has more history of what happen to people during the war. Rolf is tried for war crimes after the end of the war and Maria tries to find someone that knows what Rolf really tried to do to help the people during the war. Hans is trying to save himself and Natalie from another evil character and being dragged off to Moscow. This is a vital point in the book as you find out that there are good people in r that...more
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I personally love this series. It is one of the few books I've read lately that I would actually buy. I enjoyed this book immensely.
2nd book in the trilogy and I liked it better than the first one. The Russian story line was intriguing to me.
I would like to give an extra half star. This second novel is much better than the first. It's still heavily LDS fiction - but the story is still interesting... or I'm just easy.
I want happy endings for my characters... so this one was satisfying in that sense.
This was interesting to read about the aftermath of war - the rebuilding, the trials, suffering... things we don't really think about.
Overall - I could do without the horrible cover art. They couldn't have picked more dull people to place...more
I want happy endings for my characters... so this one was satisfying in that sense.
This was interesting to read about the aftermath of war - the rebuilding, the trials, suffering... things we don't really think about.
Overall - I could do without the horrible cover art. They couldn't have picked more dull people to place...more
I really enjoyed this book. It is a sequel to Traitor which I read last summer at my mom-in-laws. Finally got to get the rest of the story, except that now I have to wait for the third! Drat! I may have liked this one even better than the first because it is set right after the war and has a lot to do with the division of power, resources, and the race for technology between Russia and the other Allies. I think that time period gets ignored because I think, "Ok. We won and we all lived happily m...more
Amazing book! I love this book just as much as I loved the 1st book in the series, Traitor!!!
Loved this entire trilogy. Very intriguing and lots of research. Great characters. Keeps you intriqued and interested.
This was awesome!!!!!! It kept me on the edge of my seat all the time. And I love it!!!
I love all three of Sandra Grey's books, excellent, thrilling, and clean.
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