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I hardly ever pre-order books, but I was so pleasantly surprised with Alex's first book, especially with its shocking.
"Beautiful, shocking, at times painful... the magnificently told story of a man who triumphed over the limitations of history to become his greatest self."
Based on a true story, this is the epic tale of a teen's survival as the world plunged into the darkest days of WW2, and the man he became as a result.
Born in an isolated village in eastern Hungary between the great wars, Adam yearned for more. More excitement, more freedom, more knowledge of what lay over the horizon... Locked up for theft at age nine, his life took one tumultuous turn after another while Hitler reached out and ensnared the citizens of German enclaves across Europe.
Fighting to survive the horrors of the eastern front after lying about his age Adam was catapulted into a series of captures and narrow escapes from enemy forces as Europe reeled in the horror of WWII. Never standing still, he struggled through war-torn landscapes to find and reunite his family, and began to build a life from the ashes, until the results of a medical examination at an American Embassy in Germany changed the course of his future forever.
I hardly ever pre-order books, but I was so pleasantly surprised with Alex's first book, especially with its shocking and unpredictable ending, so I pre-ordered The Maidens. I found the new book strained and predictable. Marianna feels wooden and Zoe absent. I was plodding.
It had such a great promise and instead of picking up the pace, intrigue and clues, it all fell apart near the end and one felt like screaming - what the hell was the editor doing? It was starting so beautifully a group of frenemies go to celebrate New Year's Eve in a remote estate lost in Scottish wilderness, it it just flopped and became predictable, and I just stopped reading at 85% of the book and was mad with myself for giving this book so much chance.
I hardly ever pre-order books, but I was so pleasantly surprised with Alex's first book, especially with its shocking and unpredictable ending, so I pre-ordered The Maidens. I found the new book strained and predictable. Marianna feels wooden and Zoe absent. I was plodding...r
It had such a great promise and instead of picking up the pace, intrigue and clues, it all fell apart near the end and one felt like screaming - what the hell was the editor doing? It was starting so beautifully a group of frenemies go to celebrate New Year's Eve in a remote estate lost in Scottish wilderness, it it just flopped and became predictable, and I just stopped reading at 85% of the book and was mad with myself for giving this book so much chance.
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