A review by melissakuzma
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

5.0

I'm never not shocked when I read anything about WWII or the Holocaust. So, unsurprisingly, I was stunned and appalled over and over while reading this incredible novel of three German women and their experiences before, during and after the war. Also stunning and appalling are the many similarities between what was going on then and what's going on today. There were many passages where you could have taken out "Hitler" and replaced it with "trump" and it would have made perfect sense. I was also horrified by the descriptions by some of the women of not really realizing what was going on during the war - either because they truly were unaware, or because they refused to believe it. They were "too busy" or thought it was propaganda. For anyone who wonders how it could happen, read this book.

I am a huge fan of The Nightingale, and I thought this book was just as good. It's like The Nightingale from the German perspective. Highly recommended.