This is such a great story with insight into the years in Germany before WWII, told from a journalist's POV. Georgie (female) is sent to Berlin before the world understood Hitler's capability to destroy.
Georgie is gutsy, putting her life in danger to get to the bottom of what the regime is hiding, their goals, their secrets. She works alongside a fierce group of fellow reporters also looking to uncover what is really going on in Germany.
I love historical fiction, and this was another part of history I hadn't yet read about...the reporters who were there experiencing everything firsthand while doing their best to get the word, and warning, out to the world all while Hitler's Germany does it best to muffle them. Or destroy them.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of this must-read book. ( )

Interesting book about the beginning of the war set in Berlin. Liked the reporters and others. Loved the conclusion of the book. ( )

Georgie is thrilled to get a foreign correspondent position in Berlin for the British press as she gathers with news writers from NY, Chicago and Paris at the beginning of WWII. What she doesn't realize is the emotional pull it takes on her and how it changes her life. At one point, she wonders if she is a reporter or detective when her friends are missing. She questions if reporters should get involved or simply write what they observe as they step inside a world of tense fear and hatred on the streets of Berlin towards the Jewish families.

The book makes the reader think about how war changes the minds of people from soldiers who have great power, doctors who change their ways in a dictatorship, families who are cautious to trust and reporters who guard their words carefully. As a reporter, "we minimize any bias." However, Georgie points out that it's impossible to ignore seeing others treated poorly and Jews unemployed despite the Nazi glitz. "We can't ignore that."

It's a romance. It's historical fiction. And it's a book that opens are eyes in a different aspect to wars as well as the dangers that they are confronted to foreign correspondents everywhere. My thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this in advance. ( )

I did not finish this novel, so I cannot comment intelligently about it. However, I can say that the writing style seemed solid and I believe the effort to be historically accurate was definitely there. However, I was a bit turned off by the opening chapter, which was a scene picturing a Nazi officer and some (although light) unsavory events. I chose to shelve it at that point, as it wasn't what I was looking for. Perhaps in a different mood I would have liked it better. Yet the WWII category is chock full of options, so if it doesn't grab you right away, I recommend moving onto the next one. I can recommend several WWII books I loved.

A big thank you to Mandy Robotham, Avon publishing, and NetGalley for a free Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for this honest review. ( )

Reporter Georgie Young is assigned to Berlin in 1938 just as Hitler is consolidating power and imposing restrictions on the Jewish population. Georgie tries to report back what is happening, but has to balance that with threats to the reporter community.

Overall, this book was pretty forgettable. It was slow paced and seemed to lack action. Most of the characters were bland and seemed to blend together. Overall, a bust. ( )