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This is the third book in a row I've read about Berlin in the late 1930s-early 1940s (before this: Kino and before that All That I Am: A Novel).
With every one, details accumulate to make this era more personal, more human, somehow realer to me. This book has some good, sharp dialogue, especially between Sigrid and Ericha and when Sigrid meets Brigitte and Carin. The plot is enthralling although it ties up too quickly in the end. Maybe that's just because I want more of the story and the charact ...more
With every one, details accumulate to make this era more personal, more human, somehow realer to me. This book has some good, sharp dialogue, especially between Sigrid and Ericha and when Sigrid meets Brigitte and Carin. The plot is enthralling although it ties up too quickly in the end. Maybe that's just because I want more of the story and the charact ...more
I'm so glad I read those reviews Audible sends out of books that have been highly praised by their listeners. Not sure if I'd have read this otherwise, but I really loved this book. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I read multiple books at one time normally, but from the start, this one was it. Everything else fell by the wayside.
It wasn't what I expected. Every time I thought I had it figured out, there was a twist that surprised me. Some other reviewers have mentioned there was too much sex in the book ...more
It wasn't what I expected. Every time I thought I had it figured out, there was a twist that surprised me. Some other reviewers have mentioned there was too much sex in the book ...more
This was a 3+ read for me.
I started out really liking this book but then in the middle it just went off course a little for me but the end had a couple of twists that were interesting.
One of the things that intrigued me about the book and I thought was well done in the beginning was portraying Berlin in the midst of the war (1943). This was the times that after Germany’s initial wins it was starting to take some serious hits, especially on the Russian front. So all able-bodied men were in the Ar ...more
I started out really liking this book but then in the middle it just went off course a little for me but the end had a couple of twists that were interesting.
One of the things that intrigued me about the book and I thought was well done in the beginning was portraying Berlin in the midst of the war (1943). This was the times that after Germany’s initial wins it was starting to take some serious hits, especially on the Russian front. So all able-bodied men were in the Ar ...more
Couldn't put it down. The characters and the situations in Berlin during the war are so real.After a chance encounter Sigrid goes from safe German housefrau to helping to hide and transport Jews. One of those books which place you in a time in history when terrible things were happening, and make you consider what you would have done in the same circumstances.
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Surprisingly engaging, for something I was expecting to be a Sarah's Key knockoff somehow.
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