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Dacă ar fi să enumăr câteva elemente ale cărții care mi-au plăcut, aș putea vorbi despre lupta pentru supraviețuire a locuitorilor din St. Péronne pentru a depăși vitregia Primului Război Mondial (1916), dar și tăria de caracter a Sophiei, tânăra care are un destin greu de imaginat. Mi s-a părut foarte bine conturată imaginea ocupației germane asupra francezilor și duritatea cu care nemții se comportau.
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Let me first get the negatives out of the way in this review. I listened to the audio-book version and one of the two narrators has irritated me with her affectation of a French accent. I am not an English mother-tongue speaker and I struggled to understand some of her French-pronounced English words. It was distracting.
The story itself is very poignant and sweet. I have recently become a sucker for love-stories, and I love the way that Ms. Moyes writes them. The characters are driven by true f ...more
The story itself is very poignant and sweet. I have recently become a sucker for love-stories, and I love the way that Ms. Moyes writes them. The characters are driven by true f ...more
A very satisfying read. Really very good.
I am really enjoying jojo moyes's books! This was really engaging, interesting.
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I have not read a book this good in a long time. I loved every word and did not want it to end. I wish we had more of Sophie; what an amazing character. When we switched to Liv, I was a little annoyed because Sophie had such an enormous presence, but Liv shines through in the end. I'll definitely be reading all of the rest of Moyes' novels.
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I could have read a whole book about Sophie and the occupation. The painting restitution storyline was a good concept, but the resolution was too neat and the romance angle was too convenient. The Woman in Gold is a much more compelling restitution story.
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