Showing posts with label Vanora Bennett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vanora Bennett. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Double Mini-Reviews: Portrait of an Unknown Woman and The Kommandant's Girl



Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett
Genre: Historical Fiction, 16th century
Pages: 413 (paperback)

He turned to me.  His face inscrutable.  "Thank You," he said quietly.  "You've  set me free.  If I have no duty to king or family, I can follow my own heart at last."  And then he was gone, into the dusk in the street, leaving me alone in the parlor with the husband whose secret I'd betrayed.


The Kommandant's Girl
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff

Genre: Historical Fiction, WWII setting
Pages: 393 (paperback)

Urged by the resistance to use  her position with Kommandant Richwalker, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant,  to acccess details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safety--and her marriage vows--in order to help Jacob's' cause.

My Rating for Both:

My Review:
09 10