In the past,
I’ve read Snow on the Tulips, a novel about the Dutch Resistance in WWII. There’s another book out that I haven’t been
able to read called Daisies are Forever.
I liked Snow on the Tulips, so I was excited to read this one.
Manila. WWII.
Rand used to be a nightclub owner, but now that the Japanese have taken
over the city, he lives in the internment camp with so many other men, women
and children. He has plans to escape,
but those plans fall through and he’s sent to a horrible prison where he is
tortured. When he is let go, he winds up
in the hospital to recover.
Irene works
in the censor office and learns that part of the message she prepared for Rand
is missing a vital part. She sees that
he’s taken prisoner, and when another, more threatening message is sent to him,
she knows he needs to see it. Her aunt
is sick and she uses her visit to inform Rand that he’s in danger.
A man named
Covey begins to threaten and blackmail Rand and, later on, Irene. He wants power over their lives and knows
things about them no one should know.
Holding the secrets over Rand’s head, he believes he’ll take control of
Rand’s nightclub business. He threatens
to expose Irene’s deepest secret and ruin her friendship with Rand. Will they eventually embrace the truth and
each other?
This book
takes part during the war in the internment camp. There’s a lot of savagery, brutality and
cruelty mixed in with the hope of God’s deliverance and the power of
forgiveness. It was a little more on the
depressing side than I’m used to reading, but the hope of a happy ending kept
me going until the end. There’s a small
author’s note at the end giving you a little bit of the history that inspired
the story and overall, I was glad I read it.
Good Book!
*I received
a copy of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley in exchange for an
honest review.
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