Review: Engrossing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2011
disclosure: This was a gift from the author.The plot is interesting and moved at a pace that kept my interest.  I believe most of the characters were believable - flawed humans rather than paragons of virtue or caricatures of evil (with perhaps one exception - and even then, only maybe).  What I sensed overall was a sense of desperation in so many of the characters.  Normally, reading about the history of the Third Reich, I think there's a temptation to wonder why people didn't *do* something about it.  For the characters in this novel, the answer is that some didn't like or dislike the Nazi agenda, but just wanted to survive.  I think the ending of the novel was kind of abrupt, while the main action of the plot had concluded, a little more of an epilogue would have been nice.  Unfortunately, I can't elaborate without giving spoilers.