BlueEyed Son edition by Melissa Tomlinson Romo Literature Fiction eBooks
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BERLIN, 1942. An orphan boy is adopted by a childless couple. He grows up in a divided and war-weary Germany with the legacy of a hideous crime on his conscience. More than fifty years later, his American daughter, Agnes, prepares to marry her Polish-American sweetheart. But when the wedding day comes, the father of the bride fails to appear and the groom storms away with a mysterious letter. In that moment, Agnes realizes that even half a century isn’t long enough to extinguish the flames of war. Hoping to forge a peace between her father and her groom, Agnes ventures to Berlin, Munich and ultimately Warsaw in search of answers only her father’s estranged and ailing mother, Gertrude, can provide. But as Gertrude’s health deteriorates, it becomes clear that she holds the key to a horrific secret that she is determined to take to her grave. To uncover the truth, Agnes must race against the silencing jaws of death through a tangled post-Communist bureaucracy, American embassies, Polish convents, Nazi legacies and the spectre of her own doubts. Agnes must decide how far she is willing to go, and if it’s worth destroying her father and casting shame over the final days of the woman who raised him.
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BlueEyed Son edition by Melissa Tomlinson Romo Literature Fiction eBooks
"This is a work of fiction. However, it is a fact that during World War II, the Nazi regime conspired to kidnap Aryan-looking children away from their families as part of a program known as the Lebensborn. These children were taken to Germany, taught to speak German, and forced to forget where they came from. In the process of being Germanized, they were given false birth certificates and new German names. Many German families were persuaded to adopt them and told that they were German orphans. Between 1940 and 1945, historians estimate that as many as 200,000 children were successfully taken from Poland under this plan." This historical note by this new author summarizes the premise of her story which starts at a wedding in the U.S.,and quickly moves to Germany and Poland. I had never heard of the Lebensborn program or the Brown sisters before. Tragic, bittersweet and uplifting story!Product details
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BlueEyed Son edition by Melissa Tomlinson Romo Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Agnes is anxious for her wedding to begin. She and her fiancé have known each other since they were teenagers and are both looking forward to this day. Agnes' father has not arrived and a letter is delivered but the groom reads it instead of giving it to Agnes. Now he has left and she is left wondering what happened. Bernd, her father has disappeared and as Agnes looks into it, has discovered secrets in her father's past. Now she goes on a quest to find his real parents.
Very well written book based on facts from WWII, when children who looked Aryan were taken from their parents to be Germanized and raised as German. Very touching story.
I wasn't going to buy this book but because I love historic fiction about WWII I took a chance and I am so glad I did. The writing was excellent and the author's imagination was magnificent. I was so drawn into the story that putting down the book was hard to do. I also learned about another part of the war that I knew nothing about. The author took me on quite an adventure as Agnes tried to find out the truth about her family in Germany. And what an adventure it was.
Please read the book. You will be glad you did. If you are like me and are afraid to try a new author because you are unsure of whether there is profanity and sexual content included please be assured that although there was about five to ten curse words used it was indeed rare. The sexual content was minimal and definitely not explicit. I am a prude when it comes to this so I can assure you it is clean. I'm so glad I took the chance.
I love historical fiction because I usually walk away something that I never knew before. This was certainly the case with "Blue-Eyed Son". It reminded me of "Sarah's Key", which is heartbreaking to read as you discover the horrors that happened in WWII.
Agnes discovers that her father is not who he claims to be - and that he doesn't even know the truth himself. Her research takes her to Germany and Poland, where she discovers a secret and devastating practice by the Nazis that has affected her family and almost two hundred thousand others.
There are a few subplots that I would have liked to see explored in more depth, but that is a credit to the author, as her main story was beautifully written and I wanted to read more.
I have read a lot of books from authors I had not previously heard of and recently I read Blue Eyed Son by Melissa Romo. I don't usually write reviews but this was so well written and gripping that I thought it deserved the effort. On occasions when I don't finish a book it is almost always because the dialogue seems stilted or unnatural. The conversations in this book were very believable and read like someone might actually say those things in those words. It added to the credibility and realism of an already fascinating story.
There are several story lines in the book, all of which are authentic and well told. One is the very real current day issue of accepting what our ancestors did. As Americans it may be accepting that are forefathers may have been slave owners. For Germans it is the reality of the Holocaust. It reminded me of a tour guide that we had on a trip from Prague to Budapest a couple of years ago. She was a German in the mid-thirties who shared the problems her generation has dealing with the fact that their grandparents may have had some role in WW II. The shame is felt despite the generational difference and it is difficult for anyone to fully accept what people may have had to do or at least tolerate to get by at that time. The book was very true to these emotions.
The book is also very well researched and describes some of the horrific policies the Nazis used to forcibly indoctrinate children from occupied countries, in this case Poland. It is almost unimaginable what barbaric things that happened in my lifetime in Europe although I am not so naive that I don't know it didn't also happened to some degree elsewhere. In a much less brutal way it has similarities to Australia taking Aboriginal children away from their families and trying to change their culture and identities, past Canadian policies concerning First Nation tribes, and sadly probably cases in the USA involving American Indian children. The dark side of cultural assimilation. I am sure it is happening in parts of the world today which makes this story even more compelling.
On a lighter note, the story also confirmed a long-held belief of mine that big formal weddings are always a risky proposition.
Don't miss this read! Romo's writing is compelling, and I couldn't put it down. Her description of the historical context of WWII captures the chaos and confusion, the destruction and the despair, the treachery and heroics of ordinary people in desperate times. And the heroine Agnes is a great combination of dutiful daughter, self-doubting and yet determined detective, who finds herself racing against time to find answers before those who know the truth die with their secrets untold. I certainly hope Romo will write a sequel!! Surely there are more mysteries for Agnes to unravel..........
Great job! Hats off to this new and upcoming author!!
"This is a work of fiction. However, it is a fact that during World War II, the Nazi regime conspired to kidnap Aryan-looking children away from their families as part of a program known as the Lebensborn. These children were taken to Germany, taught to speak German, and forced to forget where they came from. In the process of being Germanized, they were given false birth certificates and new German names. Many German families were persuaded to adopt them and told that they were German orphans. Between 1940 and 1945, historians estimate that as many as 200,000 children were successfully taken from Poland under this plan." This historical note by this new author summarizes the premise of her story which starts at a wedding in the U.S.,and quickly moves to Germany and Poland. I had never heard of the Lebensborn program or the Brown sisters before. Tragic, bittersweet and uplifting story!
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