The Last Year of the War
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LibraryReads March 2019
Nothing says “must read” quite like a Librarian’s stamp of approval! Every month LibraryReads.org releases the top picks for the month, as voted on by Librarians across the country. Subscribe to Tacoma Library’s e-Newsletter service and get the Library Reads picks and more delivered straight to your inbox. Check out the LibraryReads’ picks for March 2019: My Lovely Wife Beautiful Bad The ... (more)
LibraryReads March 2019
Nothing says “must read” quite like a Librarian’s stamp of approval! Every month LibraryReads.org releases the top picks for the month, as voted on by Librarians across the country. Subscribe to Tacoma Library’s e-Newsletter service and get the Library Reads picks and more delivered straight to your inbox. Check out the LibraryReads’ picks for March 2019: My Lovely Wife Beautiful Bad … (more)
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Add a CommentThis story of two kindred spirits became more powerful the more I read it. This is the type of novel that will leave an impact. I absolutely LOVED Hugh and Elise!
rec for same timeframe as "Secrets of a Charmed Life"
One of my favorites of 2019!
Bernice’s suggestion!
One of the best books I have read. Excellent. Not sure about the negative comments that the story takes a while to get moving. Right from the first pages I was hooked and it didn’t stop. You will not be disappointed with time spent on this one.
I am so sad to review this as a negative as I usually love the style and pace of Susan Meissner's books. This book is so slow to get started that there was nothing to capture my attention and keep it. I have started it twice now with the same result. I felt so bad about not liking it that I have searched other reviews to see if it is just me, and am finding the same disappointment as many have had. The last 1/4 of the book is very good with a really bad ending to the book. I would give this a hard pass as there are so many other fabulous historical novels out currently that are a much easier and enjoyable read. Try reading The Flight Girls if you are looking for something new from a new author. You will not be disappointed.
A light read but a very good one. Really enjoyable.
Quoted from the book: Elise's father's reasoning for his and by extension Germany, "I did nothing because I wouldn't have been able to stop it!" Documentaries can be seen in the hundreds of citizens cheering and happily welcoming the invading forces of Germany - believing they now had a glorious future under the Nazis. Hitler could possibly have been stopped during the 1930's if only the people rose up to the brutal new and improved Leader of Germany. However, Pride, Greed and most harmful of all - Prejudice. Germany's need to avenge wrongs from the victorious Allies laid the foundation for Hitler's invasion and destruction of so many millions of citizens in so many countries. It was the Germans who initiated WWI as well as WWII.
My sympathy for the heroine lacked for me a true sadness. Elise was trapped between her love of the U.S.
The book doesn’t have a lot of depth and jumps around quite a bit, but it was still a good read!
wonderfully compelling historical read beautifully written