by Melanie Dobson
Overview: The book divides itself between two time periods: 1938-39 in Austria and present day in the United States.
Present Day...Callie has just turned 30 and finds her life has become very small and comfortable as she owns a tiny bookstore with her married sister. For her birthday, she received an old book with some strange writing in it. She begins to research who this book once belonged to. She finds herself being pulled out of her comfort zone and into an tragic Holocaust story.
1938...Annika is a girl in Austria at the time of Hitler's invasion. Austria and her life will never be the same again. She must find her way without her father and fight again evil in her own sphere.
Negative elements: A Jewish woman is raped, but thankfully the scene isn't graphic.
Positive elements: Well-written, well-paced story. Speaks of the power of friendship and self-sacrifice.
Conclusion: This is the first book I've read by Melanie Dobson. I was pleasantly surprised by the story. The book has some twists that I didn't see coming at first. Callie's love story was predicable but at least it wasn't sappy. I also appreciated how carefully Dobson handled the Holocaust's atrocities. She mentions somethings that happened but isn't graphic.
This was an easy to read and interesting historical fiction romance appropriate for teens and adults.
I received this book for free from the publisher. The opinions in this review are mine.
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