Shaz's Book Blog

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Warsaw, 1943: Every night, Franceska dances at the most dangerous hotel in Poland. She knows which floorboards cre...

Germany, 1944: Nazi banners blowing in the wind, Maggie Sullivan takes her first steps into enemy territory. Armed only with a camera and a ...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Deaf since the age of five, Mina has had to fight for everything she has, including her place at an Austrian univer...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley  Betrayed by her own husband for being a German resistance fighter, Orli has no one left in the world as she stumbl...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley  Europe, 1945: I clutch my perfect auburn-haired-baby to my chest, desperate for her to take her first breath. She ...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Dora has lost everything to the Nazis. Her dearest friends have disappeared into thin air. Her parents have been im...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley  “We’re not moving until you release our men!” Margot shouts, her heart racing. In the snow, the Berlin streets dus...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley Sophie was born to be a rebel, raised by parents who challenged the brutal Nazi regime. Determined to follow in the...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley For eighteen-year-old Ilse life is unrecognizable. A year ago, she wasn’t forced to wear a star on her clothes. A y...

Reviewed by Emma Crowley  “I won’t let anything happen to you,” he whispered, pressing a note into her hand. Her entire body trembled when s...

 Reviewed by Emma Crowley Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive. Mala, inmate 19880, understood that the moment she stepped off the cattle train int...

I wouldn’t normally do a books of the year post. But with the year that has been in it, reading has been an enjoyable escape for so many peo...

 Reviewed by Emma Crowley In Auschwitz, every day is a fight for survival. Alma is inmate 50381, the number tattooed on her skin in pale blu...