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Jul 08, 2017springclouds rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Interesting plot but very poor in the execution. A middle-aged male American writer, the author fails to get into the head of a young Afrikaans girl. Talk about cultural appropriation! Plus Afrikaners did not call a British solder a Tommy. They were more likely to call him a khaki. This glaring error was enough to jerk me out of the world he was trying to portray. And it didn't help that his writing is very uneven. Yes, I did try to read further but when he writes that after the family is put into the concentration camp, Lettie tells herself that she has "no choice but to adapt and to do so in a manner befitting the mature, thirteen-year-old adult" she'd become, I couldn't force myself to read anymore.