I would also recommend Dempsey as an author to check out because of his style and the ability he gives to bring new angles to novel genres. The story is told in third person, but the main focus is on a young woman named Franka Gerber who lives in. I will say that this isn’t usually the type of book that I would select for myself, but it was a pretty good book for historical fiction. Franka’s personality and ability to fight through the worst of times kept me coming back for more. For Christmas, my mother gave me the book White Rose, Black Forest, and I have just finished it. I would recommend this book to anyone who either enjoys historical fiction or is on the fence about it. After reading this novel, I have checked out another book by Dempsey and was pleased to see that the amount of attention and nuance that he had given this book was in the other book as well. This novel brings not only brings a new perspective to the WWII historical fiction genre but also does so in a way that made me not want to put the book down, Dempsey has a way with words that will keep you reading through the night needing to know what happens next. Throughout their time together, the two of them grow closer and Franka and John both learn how to view the war from each other’s perspectives. The reader begins to root for Franka and John as they race against time and risk both of their lives to help put an end to the war. White Rose, Black Forest is equal parts historical fiction as it is a thriller. Franka proves that while she was ready to die, she now has an important role to play and cares more about John’s safety and getting him better. After finding out he’s an American spy, she does what she believes is right and tries to help him complete his mission while also keeping him safe from her prying ex who is now part of the Gestapo. Instead, she’s brought back into trouble when a man, John, falls out of the sky and injures himself. This was a refreshing take on the WWII novels because we focus on a German woman who’s living in the Black Forest at the height of Nazi Germany, trying her best to stay out of trouble after bad experiences she had with losing her family. She’s at her lowest point and is ready to die after all the suffering she has been through. She was part of the White Rose rebellion with her boyfriend and his sister who were later discovered and executed while Franka got away because the German thought that she was just misguided. She’s lost her disabled brother to the SS and her father was killed in an Allied bombing. I took the chance on White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey because the premise seemed intriguing, Franka, a German woman with an interesting past, is living alone in her family’s summer cottage. This, however, was the book that brought me back to enjoying historical fiction because it was a novel that did something I had never seen done before in a historical fiction novel. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous.I will be the first to admit that historical fiction and I don’t usually go well together. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.ĭecember 1943.
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