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Between the unreliable narrator, the characters' name changes and the misdirections added by the author, I found myself flipping back and forth to figure out what what happening, when and to whom. I suspect that much of the confusion was intentional because it was told from the point of view of two young women, caught in the midst of WWII and behind the enemy's lines in occupied France. I am, however, glad I persevered and finished this wonderful book about the friendship of two brave young wome
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This was an extraordinary book. I had to put it down multiple times for all the sobbing I was doing. I can't recall the last time a book affected me so deeply.
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Different view of the war and a great spy story.
Wow. This one took me a while to get into - probably due to my reading it in spurts. But once I dedicated some time to it and began to understand the flow of the narrative I truly loved it. A heart wrenching story of friendship.
This book is difficult to rate, as the beginning was so slow and choppy I almost gave up on it. While I never got completely absorbed in the book, it is touching and has an interesting historical perspective.
This is an amazing book. I can’t go into detail about what I loved, precisely because that would spoil it for the reader. Suffice it to say, this is one of the best friendships I’ve ever seen in print.
Very good. I'm glad I broke my ban on WWII books for this one. Great portrait of a friendship and of heroism. Also it was a nice and twisty spy book.
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May 12, 2012
keri.
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it was amazing
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A little slow to get going, but then I just couldn't put it down.
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May 18, 2012
Barb Novak
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Jul 09, 2012
CrystalIsReading on StoryGraph
marked it as to-read
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