Review: Things We Didn't Say

Things We Didn't Say by Amy Lynn Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 out of 5 stars - If you ask me, I'll tell you to read it.

This was a very interesting story about a (fictional) WWII POW camp in Minnesota. While the camp and town are fictional, the story is based in reality.

Johanna Berglund is a linguistics student at the University of Minnesota. She has a goal to leave her tiny hometown behind and eventually go study at Oxford, where she can translate the classics. Johanna is offered a job as a translator at the POW camp that is going into her hometown. The German prisoners will work on local farms helping with the crops. Johanna wants nothing to do with it, and turns down the job offer. When her anonymous scholarship donor changes the rules, she takes the job as the only way to keep her scholarship.

While I enjoyed the story, and I was interested in where it was going and how it would end, it was very tough to get lost in the story and want to read for long periods of time. The entire book is a series of letters between various people. This style made it easy to step away temporarily and not just get lost in the story line.

Thanks to Bethany House Publishers and NetGalley for this advanced readers copy.

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