Books Via Ashley

Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin Synopsis It's 1956, and Hitler won WWII. Every year, the Axis powers (the Third Reich and Imperial Japan) hold a motorcycle race across the two continents. The victor gets to attend a fancy ball in Tokyo and have a meeting with the Führer himself. Enter Yael, a Jew whose time in a concentration camp as a medical experiment left her with the ability to skinshift. Her goal? Win the race and kill Hitler. To enter the race, she poses as the previous year's winner, Adele Wolfe. But things prove even more challenging when Adele's brother enters the race, and Yael finds out that Adele had secrets of her own. Review I love books that take history and say "What if..." and create an entirely new sequence of events. I think the events surrounding WWII are especially interesting due to the enormous impact the war and the outcome had on the world. I had been eagerly waiting to read this book since it came out in October and I was not d...

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Synopsis Two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, live in France at the outbreak of WWII. Vianne's husband goes off to war, leaving her and her young daughter to fend for themselves as the German's occupy their town and a Nazi officer comes to live in their home. Isabelle, reckless and outspoken, knows she can't sit still. She falls in love with a rebel soldier, who betrays her and leaves her heartbroken, so she runs off to join the Resistance, risking her life for the freedom of France. As the war gets worse and worse and the lines between right and wrong become even more blurred, they both learn what bravery truly is, how strong they actually are, and the limits to which they'll go for the people they love. Review I bought this book because it was recommended to me by Amazon, based on previous books I've read, not to mention I'd seen it sitting on the Bestseller list for quite awhile. When I looked at the Amazon listing,...