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The Last Year of the War summary Ì eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF read The Last Year of the War Ernment camp in Texas where behind the armed guards and barbed wire Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar including her own identityThe only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue a Japanese America. 275 Stars rounded up Have you ever waited with bated breath for an author s new book to come out only to be disappointed Unfortunately that happened to me with Susan Meissner s new novel The Last Year of The War Elise Sontag is a German girl Her family arrives at the Internment camp and there she meets Mariko Inoue a Japanese American Both families are deemed traitors of war The bond these two teenagers form is immeasurable When Elise and her family are traded back to Germany during The Last Year of the War she is torn from Mariko and grows wise beyond her years In Germany the war rages on bombings death destruction and then after what seems like a lifetime the war is over Before Elise turns Eighteen she meets an American soldier whom she marries and then life as she knows it changes foreverFor me the premise of this book held a lot of promise two young teenage girls meeting at an internment camp in Texas in 1943 during World War II one German one Japanese American suddenly torn apart bound for life due to the experiences they shared sadly however it didn t uite deliver This novel was slow moving and left me wanting I kept waiting for there to be a give and take between the characters to feel something for them for my heart to ache for what they were going through and regrettably those moments never materialized In addition this novel was written in a tell v show style which made it hard for me feel invested I loved Ms Meissner s last novel As Bright As Heaven it was one of my favorite reads of a few years ago thus it is with a heavy heart that I confess that this one just didn t measure up As you will note I am an outlier here almost all other reviewers loved this novel thus I encourage you to read their reviews and not let mine discourage you in anywayThank you to Elisha at Berkley Publishing Group and to Susan Meissner for an arc of this novel in exchange for an honest reviewPublished on Goodreads on 21019 Evangelista's Fan and Other Stories of everything beloved and familiar including her Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing own identityThe The Origins of L'art Nouveau The Bing Empire only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue a Japanese America. 275 Stars rounded up Have you ever waited with bated breath for an author s new book to come Raising Poultry Successfully out The wonderful story of Blue Beard, and his last wife only to be disappointed Unfortunately that happened to me with Susan Meissner s new novel The Last Year Coast A Celebration of Britain's Coastal Heritage of The War Elise Sontag is a German girl Her family arrives at the Internment camp and there she meets 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The Last Year of the War summary Ì eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF read The Last Year of the War N teen from Los Angeles whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers Together in the desert wilderness Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences. If you are looking to have your soul crushed any time soon look no further just pick up Susan Meissner s The Last Year of the WarSometimes a good solid cry can be so cathartic you know what I meanIn 1943 when Elise Sontag is just 14 years old her Father is arrested under suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer A neighborhood boy in their small Iowa town claimed that Mr Sontag told him he was making a bomb Sadly that was all it took for the FBI to show up on the Sontag doorstep The lives of the family would never be the sameUltimately the Sontag family along with numerous other families of Japanese German or Italian descent were sent to an internment camp in rural Texas They were allowed to take with them only what only they could easily carry Their lives before nothing but a distant memoryAs a teen Elise didn t fully understand what was happening to them She tries to take it one day at a time and just make the best of it That s a hard task for anyone let alone a kidEarly on she meets a fellow internee Mariko Inoue a Japanese American girl from LA and the two become fast friends bonding over their shared experienceThis story follows the girls through their time at the camp and beyond into adulthood Told by an elderly Elise I found this story to be heartbreaking Although purely a work of fiction this situation did in fact happen to many families That is a humbling thing to think aboutThe strength of will it would take to overcome what these families went through I can t even imagine I really enjoy when historical fiction is able to bring the past to life in such a palpable and touching wayIt was overwhelming for me at times Particularly the moments told by present day Elise as she struggles with her pending memory loss and gradual slide into the grip of Alzheimer s That hit very close to home for me and was really hard to readI thought as always Meissner tackled each of the topics explored with care and grace She has a beautiful storytelling ability and I was definitely swept away in Elise s taleThere were a few minor details that I wasn t crazy about some descriptions that I thought were a little odd but overall this was a wonderful book and I know a lot of people will enjoy itThank you so much to the publisher Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with a copy of this to read and review I certainly appreciate it Fair Skin Black Fella of being young American women with a future beyond the fences. 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The Last Year of the War summary Ì eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF read The Last Year of the War Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen year old in 1943 aware of the war but distanced from its reach Then her father a legal US resident for nearly two decades is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer The family is sent to an int. As soon as I found out that Ms Meissner had a new novel coming out I was very excited to receive an arc to review I ve been looking forward to this one I m sorry to say that I was disappointed This is a 3 mainly because I learned some history liked the last of the book but then didn t like the very ending does that make any sense to you I think part of the strength of As Bright As Heaven was definitely in it s well described characters and of course the Spanish flu epidemic and mystery surrounding the baby all of those things were action for me There was so much that happened to the characters and I also felt that they grew as a family throughout the novelThis book was such a slow starter that I almost put is aside for a while it dragged with very little going on with the characters just some interaction at the Camp and of course her meeting with Meriko I was at 50% on my Kindle before there was even anything that was keeping me reading I did have some knowledge of German Americans being interned during the war partially because I live in a suburb of Milwaukee which had a very large German population especially during that time period This was also mentioned in another book I read about internment camps This book finally kicked in for me when they were sent to Germany and I really enjoyed the last 14 of the book I wish so much that there had been this level of emotion in the rest of the bookI don t want to give away any of the interesting parts of the book because I know readers will be looking forward to this but I will say that when she came back to the US I started to feel as though I understood of Elise s character I cared for her in that little part of the book than I had up until that time Even to the end though I didn t feel the strong force of Elise and Mariko s relationship which initially I thought was the driving force of the book I never felt a deep connection to Elise or any of the characters really they all felt rather flat to me By the end of the book I felt that the war itself was the strongest character in my opinionThere are many reviewers who loved this book but I can t really recommend it and I feel badly for that Ms Meissner is a wonderful author and I will look forward to her future novelsI received an ARC of this novel through NetGalley