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De Groene Kust (2012)

by Natalie Bakopoulos(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Historical Fiction

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review 1: As much as I loved this book, I felt that the storyline was not so much how the characters lived during oppression but how they resigned themselves. One character lived in Paris and the other in the U.S. While I understood to some degree why they were both where they were, their migrations didn't add to the premise of what the book was supposed to be about. The character (the youngest sibling) who was the most revolutionary, was entrenched in some tragic love story that hid the strength and story of that character. The end of her story was horribly truncated; made me feel as if I was waiting for the end after I was done with this book. The mother's story that could have really been interesting was downplayed in a way that diminished rather than enhanced the overall pr... moreemise.Despite my feelings towards this book, I wanted to get to the end and I did so without it being painful.
review 2: This is the best account I've read about the rise and fall of the Greek colonels; it beats any nonfiction book I'm familiar with. Lots of characters to keep track of (maybe too many) but their motivations and actions are compelling. It's hard to believe what the Greeks went through under the right-wind military reign and this novel makes that terror and repression come alive. The book just came out in paperback I believe. less

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