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3.0 out of 5 stars
An great idea but just never quite gelled for me,
This review is from: After Midnight (Hardcover)
This book started off so well. It begins with a letter from a father to his daughter during the war, and then there is an amazing scene talking about a body which has been hidden in an isolated part of the Alps. Concealed for years and for some unexplained reason - the unfortunately the whole thing really fell apart for me.The daughter is now grown up and wants to find out what happened to her father, he was a fighter pilot and disappeared during a mission over Italy. She wants to know what he did and where he is now although she has no illusions about whether he is still alive. The story does follow twists and turns but I found the romance elements in it confusingly unnecessary, it was like they were there by rote and in the end I have to say that I just didn't really care that greatly what happened. Maybe the genre of a World War 2 novel cutting back and forth to the 1960s just wasnt interesting enough. There is a nice acknowledgement in the back in which Ryan talks about his inspiration for this book and so on which actually made a better story to me than the book itself. I don't think this book is generally reflective of Ryan's calibre as an author.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quite fascinating,
By Caroline Lim (Lexington, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: After Midnight (Hardcover)
During WWII, Mussolini sided with Hitler, thinking it would keep his country safe, but there were Italians who did not agree with him, and these partisans did what they could to fight the Germans and the Italian national guards, to keep Italy free from Hitler's grasp. To their aid came the Allies, dropping canisters of rations and weapons from planes, making dangerous flights up and over mountains in the night to do so, and many died in their efforts to do what they felt was right.Based on a true story of a young woman who lost her father when she was a child, who continued to search for his remains based on a letter he wrote just before he went on his fateful flight. To aid her with her search, she hires an ex-British Liaison Officer pilot who assisted one partisan group in their attempt to rid the Germans from their particular town and set up a free Republic. In searching for the plane that went down with his client's father, old memories are resurrected as are old friends. But there are forces who don't want him to find the plane or the remains, and he is beset with unexpected and nasty surprises at almost every corner.
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