I took a break from blogging for two days so I am back with tons of book reviews today!!! So here’s my first book review
The acclaimed author of Home Schooling returns with Midnight Train to Prague, a timeless tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, and survival that spans the turbulent decades of the twentieth century, through two world wars and between countries and continents.
In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father―who she believed died during her infancy―and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hevíz in Hungary. Here, she meets Count Miklós Andorján, a journalist and adventurer. The following year, they will marry.
Years later, Germany has invaded Russia. When Miklós fails to return from the eastern front, Natalia goes to Prague to wait for him. With a pack of tarot cards, she sets up shop as a fortune teller, and she meets Anna Schaeffer, the daughter of the woman she met decades earlier on that stalled train. The Nazis accuse Natalia of spying, and she is sent to a concentration camp. Though they are separated, her friendship with Anna grows as they fight to survive and to be reunited with their families.
No. of pages :- 352 pages
Date published:- will be published on November 3rd 2020
Genre:- Historical Fiction
Thank You Netgalley and the publisher for granting me an ARC of this book!
To be honest, I was looking forward to read this book. Anything related to WWII and Holocaust history fascinates me and most books I have read on them are amazing and have rated five stars. Unfortunately, this book didn’t meet my expectations. Too many characters for me to keep up with that I get confused with the characters. The story is divided into three parts–Part 1 is when Natalia is a teenager and the world has just finished with WWI and Russia had two revolutions and became a communist country. On the way to Prague from Berlin, Natalia meets Miklos with whom she falls in love and get married. Part 2 is when the world goes to war again with Hitler and Nazis invading Prague and other European countries and Russia. Part 2 was intriguing read and is about a girl named Anna who wanted to save the Jews. Part 3 is the life after the war.
It was interesting to learn so much things about the history and I like how the story shifts from Europe to Argentina to America, learning about different cultures. Would have enjoyed the book if not too many characters are involved. The plotline also was sometimes confusing to me.
Overall, it was an OK book–worth three stars.
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