I am always honored to be chosen to read a Revell Publishing book, but never so honored as when it is a book by Sarah Sundin. She is the epitome of a World War II writer. She is fascinating in her style, intriguing in her plot development, and masterful in her characterizations. When Twilight Breaks has something for everyone, a bit of romance, a bit of history, a bit of undercover escape, skullduggery, naivete, and most importantly, awakening to truth.
Evelyn Brand is a reporter working for the American News Services assigned to cover the news in Munich. George Norwood, her supervisor, has been taking her articles and editing them into oblivion. When she is assigned to interview American students who were in Munich for a year abroad study, she meets Peter Lang, the PhD candidate who is teaching the students to speak fluent German, and to speak it without an accent. His dissertation will encompass his methods of teaching German to Americans and English to Germans. Peter's ideology is based on a naïve assumption that order is the key to prosperity, but Evelyn has to open Peter's eyes to see what the order is doing to the German people.
The best way to describe the situations that Peter and Evelyn find themselves in is that things went sideways. Evelyn is ratted out to the Gestapo by a cleaning lady hired, Peter is ratted out to the Hitler Youth and that necessitates both of them running for their lives and wondering whom to trust.
This is one of Sarah's best books because her research is spot on to the lives and times of German people in the late 1930s, her characters are robust people who dare to take chances even when the chips are down, and her descriptions are incomparable. This is a five star book with two thumbs up and a coffee and pastry at the local coffee shop.
Revell Publishing and NetGalley.com provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
Sarah, if you read this, hats off to you for a stellar book.
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