Review: Fiction about World War II tragedy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
Very strange and sad book about a woman caught up in the terrible world of Germany and the SS, who, for her, took everything of value from her.  Marte was beautiful, but even though she appeared to be the flower of Aryan background, she was really a Lazarene, a member of a mysterious group of people whose blood normally gave them one blue eye and one brown eye.  Marte had two blue eyes, and the Reich believed the false papers given to them by her father, who wanted more for his beautiful daughter.  Thus begins a life of deception, a tragedy that brought nothing good to anyone she is involved with.  This book is written very well, though somewhat grisly, as any authentic fiction about genetic experimentation could be.  Dark and poignant, a book perhaps for a rainy day....