Great Writing
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Writing, June 14, 2009
By Red Adept (N Carolina) - See all my reviews

I truly enjoyed each of these stories.

The first one is from the point of view of someone trying to avoid going to the camps, the second one is from the viewpoint of a guard in the camps, and the third is from the viewpoint of someone in a camp trying to escape.

This was an excellent trio of stories. They were well written with concise, tight description. The atrocities that were manadatory in these types of stories were handled with finesse, explained without attempting to horrify, yet still managing to do so.

Loss of one star for errors in text, such as misspelling, grammar and punctuation, etc, and for formatting issues. The formatting problem was simply that there was not so much as a line break between stories. Not a huge issue, but a little amateurish and easily corrected.

I felt like I was living the story not just reading it
By avid reader SLC - See all my reviews

Cathlene Smith has a unique way of putting the reader inside the story. I really enjoyed reading these tales of the holocaust from three different perspectives. I especially enjoyed Esther and the Lodz Ghetto. I am looking forward to reading her trio of intrigue.