"A brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation that reveals the taboos and denial surrounding a painful episode in French history." - Raven P.
Jan 20, 2023jasnadzinic rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Two parallel storylines, one in present-day France and the other in 1942, as it explores the impact of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup on both the Jewish families who were taken and the French families who were left behind.
I did like the parts…
Aug 22, 2022Abbie_11 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay was an incredible novel that was separated into two different perspectives. This novel shows how the Nazi's roundup Jewish people to take them to concentration camps and how people survive in the camp and…
Aug 17, 2022lizardi rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A tragic story based on the French police's complicity with the Nazi regime, the roundup and persecution of the French Jews, and the ripple effects throughout the generations. Initially flips back and forth between 1942 and present day.…
Nov 17, 2020jazimmermann rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I wanted to like this book. But really only liked it till about halfway. The ending is predictable and falls flat. I was disappointed how the author ended Sarah's portion of the story and felt the character had so much more to share. Her…
Sarah’s Key by De Rosnay, Tatiana, is a two perspective story. The first perspective is in July of 1942. A ten year old girl named Sarah who was arrested with her family in the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, an act of the French in collaboration with…
Books on WW2 Recommended by Cory, Tongue in Cheek:
All the Light You cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
Sarah's Keys, by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Lost Letters, by Jillian Cantor
Feb 27, 2020maryebarr rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Not a book that I would recommend. The early parts of the book shift back and forth so quickly that I felt like my brain had whiplash. The relationship between wife and husband in the current day was unrealistic. The historic…
Feb 13, 2019dragonfly1953 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Sarah's Key was one of the best novel I have read in a long time where the suspense was thrilling, exciting, tantalizing and which made me cry at times. This is one must read books.
Apr 09, 2018cdbeaubien rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Story about the round up of Jews in Paris in 1942 by the Paris Police, under the Nazi's instructions. A sad chapter in French history. Well written story.
In 1942, when the French police are rounding up Jews in Paris, Sarah hides her little brother in a locked cupboard. Little does Sarah know that she will never return.
Aug 21, 2017SCL_AdultSummerGame rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This novel shifts back and forth between Nazi-occupied Paris of 1942 and one journalists investigation in 2002 of an event that happened back in 1942. Cleverly written deRosnay brings the horrors of an actual event alive and makes you…
Mar 26, 2017sgcf rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I wanted to love this book. Maybe it was spoiled by seeing the movie almost a year prior to reading. The story of France’s complicity with the Nazis in sending thousands of French citizens to their death was a facet of history I was…
Feb 24, 2017MirandaJo rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book tells the story of a little girl during the Holocaust and a young woman in the present who learns what that little girl went through. I love the emotional investment the reader has with the characters of the novel coupled with…
Jan 30, 2017dlh1 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed this book, because it gave me a history lesson in addition to an intriguing story. Written in the style of Dan Brown, where two unrelated story lines are started and then converge into one (about halfway through the novel). I…
Aug 25, 2016ArapahoeAlicia rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I am usually a historical fiction fiend, but I really disliked this book. I read the entire thing as I was on a flight without a back up book and it was a quick read, but the story did not deliver. I found the protagonist annoying and…
Mar 21, 2016ChaseJayWilliams rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
The Vel'd'Hiv is a serious and tragic event brought to light by this historical novel--and the knowledge that this event occured makes me feel more educated and less oblivious. However--the writing was insufferable. I hated reading the…
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Nov 18, 2015EuSei rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Yes, this is a haunting book, but difficult to read… And not because the author lacked talent, but because it reveals the horror of Nazi occupied France, it exposes the repulsive Vel' d'Hiv episode. It left a horrific blood stain in…
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