A friend suggested "Winter Garden" to me and I thought "eh... not my kinda read." It had great reviews though and it was available here on PBS... so I requested it and it's been sitting on my bookshelf for a couple months now. I surprised myself by breezing through the 391 pages in less than a week.
This story was well researched and well written with an abundance of great twists and turns. It was a bit of a history review (nothing boring!) with one amazing story attached. (It was kind of ironic that my son was studying Stalin and Hitler in his Social Studies class while I was reading this!) My only complaint was that the beginning was a little slow while individual characters were introduced. However, once the fairy tale started and all the characters stories came together I was hooked. Loved the happy ending too.
This story was well researched and well written with an abundance of great twists and turns. It was a bit of a history review (nothing boring!) with one amazing story attached. (It was kind of ironic that my son was studying Stalin and Hitler in his Social Studies class while I was reading this!) My only complaint was that the beginning was a little slow while individual characters were introduced. However, once the fairy tale started and all the characters stories came together I was hooked. Loved the happy ending too.
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