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Apr 11, 2020
Amanda
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Wonderful! It took me a while to finally read this book, and I wish I hadn’t waited so long. It’s amazing! I highly recommend it to fellow WWII fans...however, it is not for the squeamish...there are images in here that are medically very disturbing. Such an amazing book based on true people and events. 💜
May 20, 2018
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This book is almost universally highly rated but despite that I found it to be much less than i expected. Read as a book of the month for a GR group, I certainly spent more time dissecting the events and characterisation of the book. At first I felt that the author had chosen 3 diverse characters to portray a period of history that is ultimately awful. I did feel she was taking us on a journey worth taking.
However, the characters were not fleshed out - Caroline came across as a spoilt, selfish, ...more
However, the characters were not fleshed out - Caroline came across as a spoilt, selfish, ...more
Really, this was a 3 or 3.5 book rounded up. I had a hard time with this book. I've ead many, maybe too many, books about WW II and man's inhumanity to man. For some reason, this book just really got to me on a deeper level. Maybe because I am terrified of surgery myself. Maybe just because I've read so many. I'm not sure but whatever it is, I almost quit reading a couple of different times. But I continued on and once I started with Part 2, I was able to get through it much better. I even had a
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La verdad no me gusto tanto por el retrato que hace de más mujeres caracteres ficticios o no, les describe bastante emotivas e histéricas, pero en fin , para otro libro con tema de la 2da guerra mundial encontré bastante entretenido, los personajes buenos no son tan Buenos como parecen y los malos justifican sus maldades
In two of the last three novels I have read, I learned in the 'Acknowledgement' following the texts that they are somewhat auto/biographical. In both instances, had I known that in advance, my 4 stars would more likely been 5's.
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An exceptional book. WWII told from points of view of 3 women, including a survivor of concentration camp medical experiments and one of the doctors who did the surgery. Horrifying, sad, and uplifting tale of survival under unimaginable circumstances. Highly recommended.
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