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a bit boring

Revisado: 10-14-24

I was really looking forward to this installment but I found it hard to follow. Prof Nash hardly appeared and I want to know more about his back story. too many characters were introduced and I couldn't keep the straight so I kind of let my mind wander. I stuck with it out of loyalty to the series but it was boring.

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I enjoyed it but

Revisado: 04-23-24

the author is not a storyteller just verbose. my mind drifted during the first part of the book so much that i put it away to listen to something else. It should have been about 3 hours shorter, should have started just before the war. everything before that was the authors arrogance. nearly all of the adults in the story were pretty terrible people which is at the same time a stereotype for thay class and time and a little unbelievable. that said the kids could have easily been portrayed as victims (which would have made this book unreadable) but rather they became the heros of their stories. so no I didn't love it but it could have easily been a dud.

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couldn't finish

Revisado: 12-20-23

just a miserable, slow moving story. couldn't get into it and didn't want to after so many hours of women being mistreated with no end in sight.

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made me feel some type of way.

Revisado: 05-06-22

the only bad thing to say is that I wish there were more of it.

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her other books are way better

Revisado: 06-12-21

far too...is melodramatic the right word? I love her other 2 books and was so looking forward to this one. not a fan of the characters or the story...or the readers for that matter

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only wish it were longer.

Revisado: 05-29-21

my favorite book is crooked heart by Lissa Evans. this book wrapped up the story well but I love the world she's created for the characters V and Noel, and their relationship. I could have stayed with this book much longer. write a third installment please.

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I see a lot of people don't like the repetition...

Revisado: 11-04-19

And I agree, it was at times repetitive. I didn't listen straight through as my mind started to wander in parts. So I broke it up with listening to a different book when I was about halfway through. But I'm glad I came back to finish it because I realized by the end that the repetition was either (1) for effect, or (2) to emphasize the miracle that would come at the end. This was not my favorite book of all time by any stretch, but it did shed light on a culture that we Americans don't know much about. And in reading some of the reviews on this book about the repetition, sadly it seems we don't care either, which given our own indifference to injustice in this country is not at all a surprise. This book was insightful, entertaining and I can't wait for the movie.

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Frustratingly naive main character (spoilers)

Revisado: 11-04-19

How could Inez, a member of the Italian resistance during WWII, be so obtuse. She, a girl from rural Italy, should at least be knowledgable about the birds and the bees from the farm animals if nothing else. But to expect her life to become a fairytale after experiencing first hand the horrors of the war is a down right silly premise for a novel. The narrator really played up young Inez's naivete too with her childish voice. I felt no connection with any of the characters because there wasn't sufficient insight into their history to sympathize with them. I only get the briefest of glimpses into the previous lives of all the other characters except Inez and still her story wasn't well developed. And how could her husband suddenly become the villain when he returns to England? He was a POW before meeting Inez so don't try and tell me the last few months of the war while the 2 were apart were enough to change him into a different person. If this were the 1st WWII era novel I'd ever read I might have given the story 3 stars for lack knowing better, but this I can't finish. I hate wasting my time listening to bad stories.

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loved everything about it!

Revisado: 06-12-17

I wish it didn't have to end so soon anf that this author had more audio books I could try.

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great spy story

Revisado: 05-11-17

i love wwii fiction and history. this book doesn't disappoint. i hope there is a part 2! or even better- becomes a series!

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