This is a heartbreaking, disturbing, inspirational story. Some parts in the camp are almost too much to bare reading, especially since they're true. The parts with Caroline helped to balance some of that out. I was very emotional for the entire read for sure. The way the author tells from each o...
More like 3 ½ stars... The story in itself was heartbreaking and actually caused me nightmares, but the delivery was... impersonal? flat? I'm not quite sure what it was that put me off, but it all just dragged. I know the characters are based on real people, but they felt so unrealistic and unreacha...
From the start this novel pulled me in, as I was intrigued by the format of three different points of view of women living during Hitlers reign in the US, Poland and Germany. It shows how these women navigated the trying political times, one as a debutante, one as a surgical doctor, and another as a...
I had high hopes for this book but was very disappointed in the execution. It's told from the points of view of three women experiencing WWII from very different stations. Two of the women were dealing with the rise of Nazism and concentration camps in Eastern Europe while the other was a spoiled so...
A special thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.This historical fiction novel is about Ravensbruck, the concentration camp that conducted horrific medical experimental on young, healthy, Polish women. The story is told by three separate narrators and spans two decades fr...
This novel is very nicely written, with interesting characters. In particular, the protagonist Caroline is beautifully formed, with a life that is fascinating for those who know little about how Americans tried to help those who became unwitting refugees in the US after Hitler invaded their homeland...
Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly, author; Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati, Kathryn Kana, narrators There are some books that are meant to be read, and this cries out to be one of them. Although there may be a need to have more knowledge about what happened to the Jews at Hitler’s women’s concentrat...
By: Martha Hall Kelly ISBN: 9781101883075 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 4/5/2016 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars Martha Hall Kelly has created a spellbinding journey, both haunting and compelling. LILAC GIRLS—infused eloquently, a blending of fact and fiction— an emotional, and ...
Lilac Girls is the debut novel from Martha Hall Kelly. An epic, page turner spanning two continents, and twenty years in the lives of three striking women. CW: extremely graphic violence, surgical procedures, and severe physical and psychological torture. Caroline Ferriday (who was a real New Yo...
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