A review by rosann
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
3.0
I received an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion...
I didn't love this book - which surprised me base on the books that its been compared too - loved The Nightingale, didn't love Sarah's Key but thought it was a good book, haven't yet read The Light Between Oceans. So I fully expected to be awestruck. But I wasn't. I didn't hate it either... I think it has it's good points - I appreciated learning more about the typical German - resistor and Hitler supporter - and learning more about how brutal life in Germany was after the war for everyone. But I felt like I kept waiting for it to do something more - some surprise twist or revelation or something that would make it stand out... it never came. Don't regret reading it, but I probably won't ever read it again.
I didn't love this book - which surprised me base on the books that its been compared too - loved The Nightingale, didn't love Sarah's Key but thought it was a good book, haven't yet read The Light Between Oceans. So I fully expected to be awestruck. But I wasn't. I didn't hate it either... I think it has it's good points - I appreciated learning more about the typical German - resistor and Hitler supporter - and learning more about how brutal life in Germany was after the war for everyone. But I felt like I kept waiting for it to do something more - some surprise twist or revelation or something that would make it stand out... it never came. Don't regret reading it, but I probably won't ever read it again.