Author of Reese's Book Club YA Pick The Light in Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron, delivers an emotionally gripping and utterly immersive thriller, perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys's Salt to the Sea. In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird, and it is something that neither should ever be allowed to possess. But Eva hasn't come to America for secrets or power. She hasn't even come for a new life. She has come to America for one thing: justice. And the Nazi that has escaped its net. Critically acclaimed author of The Light in Hidden Places Sharon Cameron weaves a taut and affecting thriller ripe with intrigue and romance in this alternately chilling and poignant portrait of the personal betrayals, terrifying injustices, and deadly secrets that seethe beneath the surface in the aftermath of World War II.
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I enjoyed this book as an interesting story but it's definitely a fiction book with history mixed in. I have seen mentions here and there of German youth losing respect for their Nazi and/or collaborator parents when they learned the truth of the horrific depravity perpetrated by Germany during the war. This book imagines what a daughter of a Nazi doctor does when she begins to understand what her father was doing at a concentration camp and what it really meant to be a Nazi. Personally, I did find the book to be bit more drawn out than it needed to be so in that aspect, I would give it 3.5 stars. I did find myself bored with the same sort of scenes being repeated or the same flashbacks being told. Those types of things don't move a story forward and can make a book tedious to read. All in all, I would recommend it for a different take on post World War II novels. I should add, that I rated it based on it being a young adult book. If it was an adult fiction book, I would probably give it a 3.
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