Gisela is faced with the hard choice of leaving her grandfather and cousin behind as the Russians are approaching. Gisela is eventually convinced that she needs to take her cousin's children and get them to safety. Mere hours later, she's facing more hardships than she ever imagined. She meets up with a couple of "German" officers, but she sees through their ruse immediately. They're actually escaped prisoners of war, but Gisela finds herself wanting to help them.
I didn't make it too far. The characters were okay, but the amount of depressing elements surrounding them made me not want to read more.
It's a matter of changing tastes, I think. I enjoyed the other two books, even though they seemed to follow the same general idea - depressing elements through much of the book with a happy ending. I can only say that I wasn't as interested in this book as the previous ones. I was only about 25% in, and at least two of the characters I'd gravitated toward were dead or abandoned. I'll take responsibility for not liking this. The writing was good, but I just wasn't in the mood for it.
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