Understand that my books are piled by genre or author (Ken Follett's books are in my "epic" pile) and are stacked in chronological order from when I got them within the pile, the most recent book is on the bottom. I try to get them in the order that the author wrote them, but Follett is a definite exception to this rule, since I read his huge epics--Pillars of the Earth and sequel, Fall of Giants trilogy--first. I have three shelves of books and take the top one off each pile as I come to it--approximately 13 piles of books in all. So how is it that I read In the Garden of Beasts only one book before I came to this book? Do I really need to read two books about the Holocaust and Nazis while Trump is newly president? The world and my books are disturbing!
That said, this is a very good book about a couple eighteen-year-old kids in Nazi occupied Denmark risking everything to help the British. The ending was quite satisfying. I especially liked the note at the beginning that said, "Some of what follows actually happened."
I have now started reading A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton, a long-awaited Meredith Gentry novel. Merry is fey, now queen of the Unseelie court, and is having triplets in an highly unsettled (though fantasy) world. Hamilton's books are thrillers, fantasies, and erotic as well as exotic. Wonderful escape, and I need an escape....
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