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Dalam Cahaya Rembulan (The Moon Looked Down) (2011)

by Dorothy Garlock(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ufuk

review 1: I really enjoyed reading The Moon Looked Down by Dorothy Garlock. It's our book club selection of the month for our book club. It's a quaint little story beginning with the little town. It starts dismally with three assailants setting fire to a barn belonging to an immigrant family during WWII. Then they attack the father Hermann and his daughter Sophia. Fearful of their attackers the family remains silent. Meanwhile, Cole Ambrose returns to town after completing college in Chicago. He's torned by the desire to enlist in the war effort like his brother, but knows it's not possible with his club foot. Sophia Heller meets Cole and their lovestruck. Cole tries to help Sophia and her family. Sophia unmasks the desperados and is shocked at the sight of one. They assume the Hel... morelers are Nazis. Their is an underlying story of the turmoiled relationship between Cole and his father Robert, the owner of the town hardware store. Things look bleak for the young lovestruck couple. Read this book for more of this story.
review 2: An incredibly painful read. One of the first times I seriously wished to leave a book unfinished (an urge that arose less than 1/3rd of the way through). According to the book jacket, this author has won numerous awards for historic fiction and has been on the best seller list. I sure can't tell it by this book. Maybe historic romance is outside her genre. The story line held great potential: a German family flees Germany in 1933 (when Hitler first becomes chancellor) and starts over, building a new life in a small American farming community. Now, as America enters WWII, the family find themselves under attack from a couple of local idiots determined to rid the community of "hidden Nazi agents." I expect historic fiction to provide a clear picture of history or culture, but this book offered little information on anything that wouldn't be known to grade-school kids watching grade-B movies. The more I read, the more the book became one huge cliche, dragging on . . . and on . . . and on. If I take the author's bio at face value, I can only wonder how this book compares to her previous successes, though I lack enough curiosity to ever pick up another one of her books. less

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