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De Bakkersdochter (2012)

by Sarah McCoy(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Uitgeverij Boekerij

review 1: This could and should have been a better book than it wound up being. An editor is thanked in the acknowledgments, but there's scant evidence of her handiwork. Multiple danglers and awkward sentences get in the way. The dialogue is quite stilted in places, and not only when the German-speaking characters are talking. When two sets of sisters exchange letters (emails in the modern segment), they tell each other things they would obviously know about their shared childhoods, which makes for extremely awkward exposition. Some of the characters are curiously bloodless.I persevered because the plot is interesting. It's one of those historical novels with two threads - one taking place towards the end of the Second World War in Germany and the other in modern-day Texas. I don't ... morethink I'm the only reader who found much more to care about in the German part of the story. On the plus side, the book ends with a recipe section...
review 2: This book had a lot of potential. I really wanted to like it because I found Else and Tobias interesting. It told a different story than WWII stories’ I've read and I was glad. I had a hard time finishing it because everything seemed to wrap up 50 pages from when the actual ending was (not including the recipes at the end which was unique). Tobias was gone, Reba wanted to be with Riki, it could have ended there and I wish it had. Else and her mom die in the end, that was interesting, and we could have ended there, but the Day of the Dead stuff (which, though interesting) seemed to stretch the ending and didn’t have much of a point. I read this on my kindle and when I had about 15 minutes left in the book, I was more than ready to call it quits, went to bed, did other readings, then forced myself to pound out the ending the next day more out of obligation. The recipes in the back do nicely round out the baker theme, but I’m not sure if I liked that or not. As for Reba and Riki specifically, it seemed like that was simply filler and took away from the real story. I saw, a little, how the two stories were paralleled, but it would have made more sense if it was from Riki’s point of view because he was the one, not Reba, that was feeling the same conflect to what Else was feeling. Reba was battling something completely unrelated and with her own demons about her father though an interesting feat, didn’t seem to be important to the story.So to sum up, this REALLLY had potential to be quite good, but it fell short. less

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