Welcome to my blog tour stop for A Light in the Window which is been hosted by Bookouture
Title: A Light In The Window
Author: Marion Kummerow
Genre: Historical Fiction WW2
Pub date : Jule 20,2021
Rating:
Would I recommend it? Yes
Would I read more by this author? Yes
Now on to my thoughts
First off a huge thank you to the publisher Bookouter, the author Marion Kummerow, and to NetGalley for inviting me to join the blog tour for this book as well as letting me read and review it. And now on what I thought of the book, like always wither it's a nonfiction book about WW 2 or historical fiction WW 2 there are a few questions that I ask myself and they are as fellow:
1: author has done their research? Even though this is my first book by this author , I would say yes and it shows in her writing .
2: they bring their characters and their settings to life? Yes, the more I read the more I could see the characters come to life as well as the sittings.
3: they make you feel everything that the characters feel? Yes, there was times I just wanted to reach out and hug the main character and tell them it was going to be ok .
4: and by the end of the book your a emotional wreck? Yes , by the end of the book my heart was broken for the characters,as well as their love ones.
As for the story itself it was amazingly writing and the story line flowed together in away that with each turn of the page you got lost in it and only wanted the best for the characters, it's the type of story that you just don't want to put down but you know you have to, because if you don't your start to cry. And the concept of the story is way different then any other historical fiction WW 2 I have ever read, and that also helps the story because it shows that not everyone went along with the way they was told to think that even though they knew that a person wasn't who they said they was ,they was really to do anything to make so that those people was safe.
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Book Description:
Margarete stumbles out of the bombed-out house, the dust settling around her like snow. Mistaking her for the dead officer’s daughter, a guard rushes over to gently ask her if she is all right and whether there’s anything he can do to help her. She glances down at where the hated yellow star had once been, and with barely a pause, she replies “Yes”.
Berlin, 1941: Margarete Rosenbaum is working as a housemaid for a senior Nazi officer when his house is bombed, leaving her the only survivor. But when she’s mistaken for his daughter in the aftermath of the blast, Margarete knows she can make a bid for freedom…
Issued with temporary papers—and with the freedom of not being seen as Jewish—a few hours are all she needs to escape to relative safety. That is, until her former employer’s son, SS officer Wilhelm Huber, tracks her down.
But strangely he doesn’t reveal her true identity right away. Instead he insists she comes and lives with him in Paris, and seems determined to keep her hidden. His only condition: she must continue to pretend to be his sister. Because whoever would suspect a Nazi girl of secretly being a Jew?
His plan seems impossible, and Margarete is terrified they might be found out, not to mention worried about what Wilhelm might want in return. But as the Nazis start rounding up Jews in Paris and the Résistance steps up its activities, putting everyone who opposes the regime in peril, she realizes staying hidden in plain sight may be her only chance of survival…
Can Margarete trust a Nazi officer with the only things she has left though… her safety, her life, even her heart?
A totally heartbreaking and unputdownable story about how far someone would go to save one life, that fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See will adore.
Marion Kummerow was born and raised in Germany, before she set out to "discover the world" and lived in various countries. In 1999 she returned to Germany and settled down in Munich where she's now living with her family.
Inspired by the true story about her grandparents, who belonged to the German resistance and fought against the Nazi regime, she started writing historical fiction, set during World War II. Her books are filled with raw emotions, fierce loyalty and resilience. She loves to put her characters through the mangle, making them reach deep within to find the strength to face moral dilemma, take difficult decisions or fight for what is right. And she never forgets to include humor and undying love in her books, because ultimately love is what makes the world go round.
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