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Lily (2 KP) rated The Sun Eaters in Books

Jan 30, 2018  
The Sun Eaters
The Sun Eaters
Alex M. Pruteanu | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Young Adult (YA)
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The story, the characters, the honesty, the spirit and heart of these lives imbued within the pages of a rather tragic, bleak time. (0 more)
Violence, death, famine, difficult topics and themes. (0 more)
Two orphan boys try to survive post WWII
This book will definitely grab your life-sac into a boxing ring, land a few right hooks, an upper cut, and drop kick you on the floor. But maybe, like the boys say in the book, you're one of the ones that can see the beauty in the strange, the love-hate of all good stories. So you'll put it down, make someone something to eat, feed yourself, fortify your bones to get at it again - finish it, tear a piece of one of the pages and chew it into a stew-like paste and swallow it. Forever making a little home for these boys inside your body. Maybe you'll eat a little bit more of it each day as you pray and work to keep the world one in which we don't have to eat the sun, dig our own graves. But be warned, once read their hunger might become your own. And hunger never dies.
  
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Laura Doe (1350 KP) rated The Diplomat’s Wife in Books

Jan 14, 2021  
The Diplomat’s Wife
The Diplomat’s Wife
Michael Ridpath | 2021 | History & Politics, Mystery
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Mystery throughout (1 more)
Very interesting
Unexpected ending...
I would rate this 9 stars. I was given the opportunity to read an advanced copy, and I was not disappointed.
It kept me guessing right until the very last chapters, which is very unusual.
It follows Emma and her grandson as they travel around Europe to France, Germany and finally Spain to solve a mystery that Emma has been trying to work out for 40 years... what happened to her brother. Throughout the book she tells her grandson but about her life in the 30s before WWII broke out when she met and married her husband - a British diplomat.
I loved that the font changed when it came to the chapters about Emma’s life in the 30s and when she was with Phil in the 70s, it made it so much easier when I’d put the book down (unwillingly!) for a little while to remember, just by looking, the perspective the book was coming from.
I was very sad about the book ending, as it was such a lovely read and one that was very easy to lose yourself in. I would definitely recommend it!