A review by bookpaperraven
Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein

3.0

I am a big lover of historical fiction, especially that of WWII, but unfortunately I did not enjoy this particular novel. It is the story of a young German girl living in nazi Germany with a prominent nazi supporting family and her journey through love, friendship, trials and eventually pregnancy. I think once issue for me is I am not a big fan of first person present tense, that is of course just a personal preference. However, I do find that you must have a very good protagonist if you choose this tense, and I never really came to love Hetty at all. She annoyed me when she was younger and believed in the Nazi regime, but even as she grew and changed her opinions for the better I always found her quite foolish and selfish. I think I would have preferred to hear a story from Erna’s point of view. I also did not enjoy the end. Other than forcing her to marry Thomas, and showing that Erna’s family was lovely and Hetty’s family horrible (which was already known) it wasn’t really necessary and just added drama to a book that already had drama.