Those Who Save Us | Jenna Blum | Best Book I've Read in a Long Time!

Those Who Save Us | Jenna Blum | Sad Relations between Mother and Daughter

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Those Who Save Us

	Those Who Save Us Jenna Blum Harvest Books, 2005 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 92 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Best Book I've Read in a Long Time!

I won't bore you with more discussion of the plot. That's been done here by others. Only want to add my opinion that this was one of the best books I've every read, which is saying alot from a voracious reader.

Sad Relations between Mother and Daughter

As the mother of two grown women, I could not help but sadly shake my head over the relationship of the mother and daughter in this book. Both of them lost so much to silence. Of course, it was a moving story of World War II and the Holocaust, but it was also a human story of just two people, one of whom would not let the other know her. The ending was gratifying, for each of these women deserved better than what she had gotten from life. Now I want my daughters to read it. I am looking forward to more from Jenna Blum.

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Great Book. Couldn't put it down.

This book was indeed a greatly written book. The characters were incredible, full of depth and character. I loved every page of it. I was only disappointed that it ended. I look forward to more work from Jenna Blum.

Very Absorbing

This book was one of the most absorbing books I've read lately, and I read a lot of books. Once I started reading I couldn't put it down. Right now I am into everything related to WW2 and this definitely showed that time in a different light than I had seen before.

A Great Read with a Couple of Glitches

I enjoyed this book. It's well written with clearly defined characters and a plot which is both plausible historically and well-researched insofar as I can determine.

The author is an American of mixed Jewish/German ancestry and she addresses an important period of world history in a way most American readers can follow. There were a couple of glitches, however.

The author handles dialogue well where content is concerned, but she doesn't use quotation marks. I found that a bit disconcerting, but I am admittedly Paleolithic in my outlook. Younger readers probably take such things in stride.

The author also makes a couple of minor errors. One of her main characters is an SS officer with the rank of Obersturmfuhrer (roughly comparable to a First Lieutenant in the US Army) who habitually carries a sidearm.

He sometimes uses this sidearm in ways which appear to me to be fiendishly abusive. However, the author describes it both as a "Luger" and a "revolver." Even if she is teaching in Boston, this gun can't be both a Luger and a revolver. A Luger is a 9 MM semi-automatic pistol and anybody who's even seen a picture of one would NEVER confuse it with a revolver. In one critical scene, the author even has the Obersturmfuhrer trying to manipulate the safety on his revolver with one hand. Most revolvers don't have safeties. Luger pistols, however, do and that's probably what an SS officer would have carried. The safety, however, is easily manipulated with one hand which fact would spoil an otherwise dramatic scene.

Other than these minor glitches, I was very pleased with this novel and enjoyed reading it. Jenna Blum may not be much of a shooter, but she is a wonderful writer and I gave her novel five stars.

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