Winter Guest (Jenoff) - Book Reviews

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I have not been so moved by a book in quite some time as I was by The Kommandant's Girl ...The remarkably accurate account of a world at war, and the repercussions of that war make this a brilliant debut novel...I could not put the book down, yet was sad to see it end.
Historical Romance Writers


Jenoff excels in her vivid portrayal of the deprivation and corrosive fear that afflicted those dwelling under Nazi aggression.... In the end, The Winter Guest proves compulsive as it races to its desperate denouement, the finale a moving testament to the suffering endured during the war.
Historical Novel Society


Brisk, romantic and emotionally satisfying.
Booklist


Successful and satisfying...[Jenoff] expertly draws out the tension and illustrates the danger and poverty of Eastern Europe as it falls under communism. Highly recommended for all fiction collections.
Library Journal


An 18-year-old Polish girl falls in love, swoons over a first kiss, dreams of marriage—and, oh yes, we are in the middle of the Holocaust.... [It is] the early 1940s, as the Nazis invade Poland and herd Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.... Romance and melodrama mix uneasily with mass murder.
Kirkus Reviews