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Prokofiev: Betrothal In A Monastery / Act 1 Tableau 1 (with Vladimir Zhivopistsev / Evgeny Akimov / Sergei Aleksashkin / Nikolai Gassiev / Alexander Gergalov / Kirov Orchestra / St Petersburg / Valery Gergiev) by Gergiev / Kirov Opera / Prokofiev

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Erika (17788 KP) rated The Huntress in Books

May 4, 2019

The Huntress

Kate Quinn | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry

9.0

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To start out with, I wish I could give this a perfect 10, but one of the main characters, Nina, was completely insufferable and easily, her chapters could have been cut out.
Alright, so, I don't consider books post WWI to be historical fiction, and I normally steer clear of WWII/aftermath fiction because bookstores and goodreads are inundated with hundreds of novels. But, I decided to pick up this book anyway.

Essentially, it's a Nazi hunt. There are three viewpoints from three different characters. As I mentioned, Nina was insufferable. Most of the reviews I read talked about their love of this character and the origin of the Night Witches (AKA female, Russian pilots). Ian was one of the other main characters, a former war correspondent who's a Nazi hunter, trying to find 'The Huntress', who murdered his brother. Then, there's Jordan, an American teenager whose father marries a mysterious German woman with a daughter.

I won't spoil the plot, but basically, you can work out the entire plot within the first few chapters. What kept me reading was the writing style, and every other character but Nina.

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ClareR (5632 KP) rated The Trick to Time in Books

Nov 6, 2018

The Trick to Time

Kit De Waal | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry

10.0

(2 Ratings)

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A surprisingly beautiful novel.

I knew (and hoped) that this was going to be a good book, based on Kit de Waal's previous book 'My Name is Leon'. I have not been let down. I loved this. If it wasn't a library book, I would probably have turned back to the start and begun again.
This is the story of Mona: her life as a child, a young woman and an older woman (in the present day). She moves from Ireland to England to work and find more excitement than the village life she has experienced in Ireland, leaving her father behind (her mother dies when she is young). She meets a young Irish man and marries him. We skip between the present day and her past from chapter to chapter. In the present day, Mona hand makes dolls which she sells online around the world. These wooden dolls are made by 'the carpenter' and Mona makes their clothes. She meets a German 'gentleman' who always seems a little pushy to me (he made me feel uncomfortable).
It's the gradual revelations that really affected me: the hard life she had and the heartache. Such a beautifully written, emotional novel.