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Review Date: 8/2/2011
This is a wonderful epic story about the time before and during World War I. The story is very character driven as you follow family members from Wales, England, Germany and Russia. Ken Follet did an excellent job in researching the political and social events that happened during the time before, during and immediately after the war. He did an excellent job in getting the reader to care about the times and to care about the characters. I am looking forward to the next book of the trilogy.
Review Date: 1/8/2017
Sage is a baker who hides her face and works only at night. She keeps people at bay including her coworkers, her family and her married boyfriend. She feels responsible for the death of her mother as a result of an auto accident in which Sage was driving. She meets a widower at her grief counseling group who becomes her friend, until he asks her to kill him because of his past as a Nazi SS officer. Her grandmother is a survivor of a death camp who never told her story of her life to anyone. Before Sage agrees to kill the old man, she must hear both his story and her grandmother's. She also learns her grandmother wrote an unpublished story in her youth about vampires that is important to everyone's story. In the fashion that is Jodi Picoult, this book kept me riveted and turning pages well into the night.
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