Lilac Girls by Martha Hall KellyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book will be popular with public library book clubs! Each chapter is written about one of three women--Caroline, a NYC socialite who volunteers at the French consulate and falls in love with a married Frenchman; Herta, a German doctor who takes the only job she can get--at a women's "reeducation" camp; and Kasia, a Polish teenager who works at a movie theater. Time passes very quickly in this novel and World War II changes their lives dramatically.
This is a fast read, but for some reason I didn't come to love any of the characters. Each chapter ends with a cliffhanger, so I felt like I was reading a Dickens novel, but the suspense only irritated me, instead of encouraging me to keep reading.
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