Audience: Young Adult Format: Audiobook Library Copy Guilt is a hunter. - First sentence This is more than just a story about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, although that is the historical event that inspired it. The book follows the journey of a group of refugees trying to escape war an...
Audiobook, excellent narrationIntense survival historical fiction- be ready for some deep feelsA young adult novel that transports the reader to a horrendous time in history. It is the story of four fictional individuals evacuating/escaping during World War II who make their way to the ill-fated doo...
This is not your typical WWII novel because it focuses on a lesser-explored aspect of the war -- namely the voyage of thousands of refugees, many of them of German descent, who fled the country in the wake of a Russian invasion. The story follows four narrators: a kind-hearted Lithuanian nurse, a Po...
Rating: 5 StarsI LOVED this book!!!! What more can I say, I literally read this book for 3 days straight. It was so amazingly written. I have never, in my entire reading life, read something as beautiful as this.What gives this book 5 stars?1.) The cover!! The cover is just perfect in every sense of...
Beautiful and heartbreaking story told during WWII when Russia and Germany are fighting. A small group of mostly young adults with all different backgrounds bands together for survival. They go through all kinds of obstacles trying to get out of the country. Some loose their lives along the way. ...
What a wonderful, beautiful book! There is so much that I enjoyed about this. I love that it put a spotlight on an almost unknown tragedy of epic proportions, and in the process it exposed the misery that German leadership put their own people through during World War II. It is told through the ey...
Based around the real sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, Ruta Sepetys’s novel, Salt to the Sea, is a quick-paced tale of strangers pushed together in straitened circumstances. All of them have secrets and agendas. All of them just want to get somewhere safe and wait for the war to end. The tension ...
Once again, I have been amazed by Ruta Sepetys! She is one of my favorite authors and her books are always filled with so much passion that I am captured from the very first page. I love how Sepetys does so much research for her books. You can really tell she tries to make her books as accurate to t...
This was a good book. I enjoyed it and was moved by it. This third book of Ruta Sepetys blew my disappointment in her second away, though I still prefer Between Shades of Gray. Alfred is a creep. He's completely bought into the Nazi propaganda and spends time pretending to write letters to a girl he...
About the book:Salt to the sea tells the story of 4 teenagers who for different reasons end in the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German ship evacuating mostly civil population from east Prussia to Kiel (Germany) which sank in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by the soviets near the end of WWII. I'm not a ...
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